<ul>
<li>GCSE History</li>
<li>AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR</li>
<li>Ideal for students</li>
<li>Ideal for teachers and private tutors</li>
<li>Western Front</li>
<li>Stalemate</li>
<li>Why did a stalemate develop on the Western Front?</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>GCSE History</li>
<li>AQA, EDEXCEL, OCR</li>
<li>Ideal for students</li>
<li>Ideal for teachers and private tutors</li>
<li>Western Front</li>
<li>Stalemate</li>
<li>The following were equally important reasons why the stalemate on the Western Front was finally broken:<br />
• New technology like the tank<br />
• The American entry into the war<br />
• The blockading of German ports<br />
• The German Offensive in March 1918<br />
Explain how far you agree with this statement.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Economics of Strategy</li>
<li>Illustrative analysis of a business</li>
<li>Ideal for students</li>
<li>Ideal for teachers and private tutors</li>
<li>Ideal for university</li>
<li>Assess the relative performance of a business since 2004 compared with an industry average or a competitor. Briefly set out its vulnerability and its main exposures. Identify the key elements of its business strategy and assess its effectiveness in a) raising profits and b) mediating the impact of macroeconomic exposures.</li>
<li>Vulnerability</li>
<li>SRATC curves</li>
<li>Economic graphs throughout</li>
<li>Macro exposure</li>
<li>Market exposure</li>
<li>Supernormal profits</li>
<li>Price positioning</li>
<li>Price elasticity of demand</li>
<li>Product range</li>
<li>Differentation</li>
<li>Customer relationship management</li>
<li>Brand development</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Economics for Business</li>
<li>Example and illustrative analysis of an economy</li>
<li>Example and illustrative analysis of a business</li>
<li>Ideal for students</li>
<li>Ideal for teachers and private tutors</li>
<li>Ideal for university</li>
<li>Assess the past and current performance and future prospects for the economy focusing on the key aggregates.</li>
<li>Assess the vulnerability of a business and its degree of exposure to macroeconomic shocks. Briefly advise the business on an appropriate strategy to manage uncontrollable macroeconomic shocks from the global recession and any recovery that takes place.</li>
<li>GDP</li>
<li>Unemployment</li>
<li>Exchange rate</li>
<li>Inflation</li>
<li>Interest rates</li>
<li>Balance of payments</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>ICAEW</li>
<li>Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales</li>
<li>Financial Accounting & Reporting</li>
<li>Ideal for students</li>
<li>Ideal for teachers and private tutors</li>
<li>Exam questions and illustrative answers with revision notes</li>
<li>Consolidation</li>
<li>Goodwill</li>
<li>Joint arrangements</li>
<li>Joint control</li>
<li>Equity method of accounting</li>
<li>Provisions for unrealised profits</li>
<li>Fair value adjustments</li>
<li>Deferred consideration</li>
<li>Non-controlling interest (NCI)</li>
<li>Consolidated retained earnings</li>
<li>IFRS 5 Non-current assets held for sale and discontinued operations</li>
<li>Disposal of a subsidiary</li>
<li>Dividend income</li>
<li>Deferred income</li>
<li>Foreign currency</li>
<li>Abandonment of non-current assets</li>
<li>Inventory valuation</li>
<li>IAS 16 Property, plant and equipment</li>
<li>IAS 23 Borrowing costs</li>
<li>IAS 20 Government grants</li>
<li>Ethics</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Economics for Business and Strategy - Revision Notes</li>
<li>68 Exam Style Questions and Illustrative & Exemplar Answers<br />
-172 pages</li>
<li>Ideal for students</li>
<li>Ideal for teachers and private tutors</li>
<li>Ideal for university</li>
<li>Economic graphs throughout</li>
<li>Inputs, outputs and efficiency - constant returns production function, decreasing returns to labour, increasing returns to labour, production possibility frontier,</li>
<li>Costs and vulnerability in the short run</li>
<li>Exposure - the firm and its product markets - demand, supply and equilibrium, market demand curve, price elasticity of demand, own price elasticity, elasticity and inelasticity, determinants of price elasticity, price elasticity in practice, cross price elasticity of demand</li>
<li>Competition, market power - supply curve, free markets and price controls, business in a perfectly competitive market, optimal output in perfect competition, profit maximising level of output, market supply curve, short run supply curve</li>
<li>Macroeconomics - demand side shocks, GDP (real and nominal)</li>
<li>Macroeconomic exposure - aggregate demand, circular flow of income, exogenous demand, endogenous demand, consumer and investment goods, consumption function, investment function, equilibrium GDP, the multiplier, savings function</li>
<li>Open economy and aggregate demand - net exports, GDP, exports, imports, export and import functions, balance of trade</li>
<li>Exchange rate - real, nominal, supply curve, demand curve</li>
<li>Governments - externalities, positive and negative externalities, taxation, the multiplier with tax, aggregate demand and GDP, indirect tax cuts, fiscal stimulus</li>
<li>Aggregate supply, aggregate demand, price inflation and balance of trade - demand, GDP and capacity, Phillips and aggregate supply curves, Aggregate Demand curve and inflation, trade balance/balance of trade</li>
<li>Marginal cost curve</li>
<li>Average Total cost curve</li>
<li>Opportunity cost</li>
<li>Unemployment and employment</li>
<li>Savings</li>
<li>Aggregate savings rate</li>
<li>Interest rates</li>
<li>Public spending</li>
<li>Supply shocks</li>
<li>Demand shocks</li>
<li>Trade deficit</li>
<li>Inflation</li>
<li>Monopolistic competition</li>
<li>Monopoly</li>
<li>Indifference curves</li>
<li>Oligopoly</li>
<li>Collusion</li>
<li>Social costs of a monopoly</li>
<li>Cartels</li>
<li>Regulators</li>
<li>Government failure</li>
<li>Capital accumulation</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Business and Company Law - Revision Notes</li>
<li>12 Exam Style Questions and Illustrative & Exemplar Answers</li>
<li>117 pages</li>
<li>Ideal for students</li>
<li>Ideal for teachers and private tutors</li>
<li>Ideal for university</li>
<li>The English Legal System</li>
<li>Classification of the law - Criminal Law, Civil Law</li>
<li>Reference to Acts throughout</li>
<li>References to historic cases/precedents throughout</li>
<li>Administration of the law - the court system, Magistrates Courts, Crown Courts, County Courts, High Court of Justice, Woolf Reforms, Appeal Courts, European Court of Justice, European Court of Human Rights</li>
<li>Sources of English Law - Judicial Precedent/Common Law, Binding and Persuasive Precedents, Hierarchy of Courts and Judicial Precedent, Overruling and Reversing, Legislation, Acts of Parliament, Procedure, Interpretation of Acts of Parliament, literal rule, invitation to treat, golden rule, mischief rule/purposive approach, aids to interpretation, extrinsic aids, European Law</li>
<li>Legal personnel - solicitors, barristers, suing the legal profession, immunity</li>
<li>Contract law - the offer, acceptance, consideration, accord and satisfaction (common law exception), promissory estoppel (equitable exception), intention to create legal relations, capacity to make a contract, purpose, Discharge of a contract</li>
<li>Promoters and Pre-Incorporation contracts - statutory duty</li>
<li>Post incorporation - power to bind and represent the company</li>
<li>Distributions and maintenance of capital - rule against the purchase of own shares, Rules governing distributions, Reductions of capital, Redeemable shares</li>
<li>Articles of association - alterations, remedies</li>
<li>Shareholder voting rights - resolutions</li>
<li>Variation of share rights- type of shares, voting rights, variation of voting rights, statutory right to object</li>
<li>Protection of Members against unfair prejudice - petition to wind up the company</li>
<li>Retention of title clauses</li>
<li>Fraudulent trading</li>
<li>Wrongful trading</li>
<li>Insider dealing and market manipulation - insiders, inside information, insider trading, market abuse, sanctions, defences, insider dealing, restrictions on insiders, penalties</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>University - Taxation</li>
<li>Ideal for students</li>
<li>Ideal for teachers and private tutors</li>
<li>UK</li>
<li>Origins of taxation</li>
<li>Tax development</li>
<li>Defining taxation</li>
<li>Why does the government impose tax</li>
<li>Elements of tax - base</li>
<li>Elements of tax - rate</li>
<li>Elements of tax - taxpayer</li>
<li>Desirable characteristics of a tax system</li>
<li>UK tax revenue</li>
<li>Government spending</li>
<li>Your money and how they spend it</li>
<li>Differences in taxing the rich & poor</li>
<li>Incomprehensible and complex tax system</li>
<li>Public spending</li>
<li>Financial transaction taxes - advantages, disadvantages, solution</li>
<li>30 calculation exam style questions & answers for personal and business taxation</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>University - Organisation Behaviour - Revision Notes</li>
<li>Ideal for students</li>
<li>Ideal for teachers and private tutors</li>
<li>Taylor and scientific management</li>
<li>Ritzer’s McDonaldization Thesis</li>
<li>Ford and The Assembly Line</li>
<li>Taylorism</li>
<li>Fordism</li>
<li>Marxist critique</li>
<li>Weber and Bureaucracy</li>
<li>Authority</li>
<li>Instrumental vs value rationality</li>
<li>Hawthorne experiments</li>
<li>Unitarist perspective</li>
<li>Human relations</li>
<li>Schein’s Types of Man</li>
<li>Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs</li>
<li>McGregor’s Theory X and Y</li>
<li>Pluralist perspective</li>
<li>Integrationist</li>
<li>Interactionist</li>
<li>Radical</li>
<li>Marxism</li>
<li>Marxist theory and perspective</li>
<li>Marx’s labour theory of value</li>
<li>Deskilling thesis</li>
<li>New technology and organisational behaviour</li>
<li>Groups and team working</li>
<li>Leadership</li>
<li>Motivation and job design</li>
<li>To what extent, if at all, does pay motivation - illustrative and exemplar answer</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Business in Social and Political Context - Revision Notes</li>
<li>Ideal for students</li>
<li>Ideal for teachers and private tutors</li>
<li>Ideal for university</li>
<li>Clusters</li>
<li>Networks</li>
<li>Tacit knowledge</li>
<li>Network theory</li>
<li>Institutions</li>
<li>Networks and markets</li>
<li>Governance</li>
<li>Government</li>
<li>General governance</li>
<li>Corporate governance</li>
<li>Markets, law</li>
<li>Markets without law - the shadow economy</li>
<li>The informal economy</li>
<li>Taxation</li>
<li>Standards</li>
<li>Accounts and accountability</li>
<li>Government involvement</li>
<li>Market failure</li>
<li>Barriers to entry and exit</li>
<li>Firms as governance makers as well as takers</li>
<li>De-regulation</li>
<li>Corporate responsibility</li>
<li>Corporate citizenship</li>
<li>Globalisation</li>
<li>Global supply chains</li>
<li>Codes of conduct</li>
<li>Corruption</li>
<li>United Nations Global Compact</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>To what extent could emigration impact on Poland’s national competitiveness and attractiveness?</li>
<li>Migration trends</li>
<li>Workforce</li>
<li>Brain drain</li>
<li>Job creation</li>
<li>Role of governments</li>
<li>Competitive advantage of nations</li>
<li>Regional integration</li>
<li>Cultures</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Book Review - Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism by Muhammad Yunus</li>
<li>Author’s background</li>
<li>Content summary</li>
<li>Fundamental concept</li>
<li>Content and evidence</li>
<li>Style and structure</li>
</ul>