This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers: a) Recruitment and selection process: o internal versus external recruitment b) Costs of recruitment, selection and training c) Types of training: o induction o on-the-job o off-the-job Written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation

This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers: a) Survival b) Profit maximisation c) Other objectives: o sales maximisation o market share o cost efficiency o employee welfare o customer satisfaction o social objectives Written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation

This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers: a) Sole trader, partnership and private limited company b) Franchising, social enterprise, lifestyle businesses, online businesses c) Growth to PLC and stock market flotation Written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation

Edexcel A Level Business 3.1.2 Theories of Corporate Strategy (complete lesson) This lesson covers: a) Development of corporate strategy: o Ansoff’s Matrix o Porter’s Strategic Matrix b) Aim of portfolio analysis c) Achieving competitive advantage through distinctive capabilities d) Effect of strategic and tactical decisions on human, physical, and financial resources This lesson is written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation

This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers: a) The difficulties in developing from an entrepreneur to a leader Written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation

This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers: a) Opportunity cost b) Choices and potential trade-offs Written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation

This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers: a) Purpose of budgets b) Types of budget: o historical figures o zero based c) Variance analysis d) Difficulties of budgeting Written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation

This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers: a) Capacity utilisation: o current output (divided by) maximum possible output (x 100) b) Implications of under- and over-utilisation of capacity c) Ways of improving capacity utilisation Written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation

This complete lesson includes a teacher PowerPoint with all the answers and a comprehensive student worksheet and covers all of these topics: a) Development of corporate strategy: • Ansoff’s Matrix • Porter’s Strategic Matrix b) Aim of portfolio analysis c) Effect of strategic and tactical decisions on human, physical, and financial resources This resources has been written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation

This is a complete lesson written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation and it covers the following topics: Main stakeholders of businesses Objectives of stakeholders Impact of business activity on stakeholders Impact and influence stakeholders have on businesses

This is a complete lesson written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation and it covers the following topics: Interest rates how fluctuating interest rates can affect businesses that rely on overdrafts and loans for finance how fluctuating interest rates can affect consumer and business spending. Levels of employment Consumer spending

This is a complete lesson written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation and it covers the following topics: impact of legislation on businesses benefits for providing a safe working environment employment law including: national minimum wage/living wage the Equality Act (2010) Health and safety law including: the Health and Safety at Work Act (1974) consumer law including trade descriptions

This is a complete lesson written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation and it covers the following topics: Methods of production: Job Flow Efficiency in production: Lean production Just in time (JIT)

This is a complete lesson which includes a teacher PowerPoint and a student worksheet written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation and it covers the following topics: Purpose of market research To collect information Why businesses conduct market research Methods of market research to include primary and secondary Uses of market research information that may help decision making Qualitative and quantitative market research manipulate and interpret data from tables and charts identify market size and market share

Edexcel A Level Business unit 4.4.3 a) Factors to consider: o political influence o legal control o pressure groups o social media This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a student worksheet Written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation

a) Stakeholder conflicts b) Pay and working conditions c) Environmental considerations: o emissions o waste disposal d) Supply chain considerations: o exploitation of labour o child labour e) Marketing considerations: o misleading product labelling o inappropriate promotional activities This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a student worksheet Written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation

This lesson includes a worksheet and a PowerPoint and is written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation. This lesson includes the following topics: a) Market mapping b) Competitive advantage of a product or service c) The purpose of product differentiation d) Adding value to products/services

This is an essay planning sheet for Edexcel A level business but it’s in Word so it could be adapted to any board. I use these at revision time with U6 students together with past papers and the model marked answers. They use these to plan answers to the longer questions and it helps to cement the techniques for exams of using the case study as evidence to support their points.

2.1.1 Internal finance a) Owner’s capital: personal savings b) Retained profit c) Sale of assets 2.1.2 External finance a) Sources of finance: o family and friends o banks o peer-to-peer funding o business angels o crowd funding o other businesses b) Methods of finance: o loans o share capital o venture capital o overdrafts o leasing o trade credit o grants 2.1.3 Liability a) Implications of limited and unlimited liability b) Finance appropriate for limited and unlimited liability businesses 2.1.4 Planning a) Relevance of a business plan in obtaining finance b) Interpretation of a simple cash-flow forecast and calculations based on changes in the cash-flow variables c) Use and limitations of a cash-flow forecast