I have been teaching Business, Finance and Economics for 13 years and use expertise gained from within the classroom, and from examining for AQA, Edexcel, OCR, Eduqas and LIBF, to create high quality resources and support teachers in delivering outstanding lessons.
I have been teaching Business, Finance and Economics for 13 years and use expertise gained from within the classroom, and from examining for AQA, Edexcel, OCR, Eduqas and LIBF, to create high quality resources and support teachers in delivering outstanding lessons.
COMPLETE LESSON: Business Production Methods (INC. PPT, ASSESSMENT, DIRT SHEET)
Ideal for GCSE, BTEC, Tec Award, and NCFE Business courses including OCR, AQA, EDEXCEL, WJEC.
Also suitable for Citizenship and PSHE lessons.
Complete lesson including:
• 19-slide Ppt presentation including Starter activity, Key Words, Link to video, opportunities for students to develop higher order thinking skills (analysis), Past Paper Questions to assess progress/understanding (together with mark scheme)
• Student Assessment
• DIRT sheet to enable students to reflect on their assessment.
An off-the-shelf outstanding lesson covering:
• Describe each method of production (job, batch, flow)
• Explain the advantages and disadvantages of each method of production (job, batch, flow)
• Explain why a given method is appropriate for a particular situation
• BONUS CONTENT: quality assurance vs. quality control.
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FINANCE KO SHEET + KO TESTS
2-page revision document consisting of key terms and business content from the 'Finance’ unit:
Break Even Analysis
Cash Flow Forecasts
Gross and Net Profit
Sources of Finance
BONUS CONTENT- Includes 3x Knowledge Organiser Tests to assess students’ learning.
Can be used for any business, finance, economics, or enterprise course.
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BUSINESS EXTERNAL INFLUENCES KO SHEET + KO TESTS
2-page revision document consisting of key terms and business content from the 'External Influences unit:
• Business competitors
• Economic conditions
• Environmental constraints
BONUS CONTENT- Includes 3x Knowledge Organiser Tests to assess students’ learning.
Can be used for any business, finance, economics, or enterprise course.
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CeFS / DipFS Student Support Resource Link Map (LIBF Financial Studies)
Resources available on the LIBF website have been painstakingly mapped into a simple-to-use Excel file. This contains direct web links to student support resources provided on the LIBF website for the Financial Studies CeFS / DipFS programmes. Students simply have to click on the link and can access the following resources for each and every topic over the 4x Units (Unit 1 FCIS, Unit 2 FCMLT, Unit 3 SIF and Unit 4 SFSS):
Textbook
Vocabulary Game
Quiz
Key Terms
Further Reading/Activities
As a successful and experienced teacher of LIBF Financial Studies I have found that giving students access to this Excel file has enabled them to quickly and efficiently access revision resources provided by the exam board. This has boosted exam performance and significantly increased grades as a result. You may also consider asking students to complete the quiz on each topic as part of homework assignments.
An LIBF login is required to access resources. Students are given this when they are registered onto the course.
Unit 1: Business Activity/Introduction to Business KO Sheet
2-page revision document consisting of key terms and business content from the ‘Business Activity/Introduction to Business’ unit:
1.1 Why Businesses Exist
1.2 Planning for Business Success
1.3 Business Ownership
1.4 Aims and Objectives
1.5 Stakeholders
1.6 Integration and Growth
BONUS CONTENT- Includes 4x Knowledge Organiser Tests to assess students’ learning.
Can be used for any business, finance, economics, or enterprise course.
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FULL LESSON: Business Growth and Integration (including PPT, ACTIVITY SHEET, ASSESSMENT, DIRT SHEET)
Ideal for GCSE, BTEC, Tec Award, and NCFE Business courses including OCR, AQA, EDEXCEL, WJEC.
Also suitable for Citizenship and PSHE lessons.
Complete lesson including:
• Starter activity
• 42-slide Ppt presentation including Key Words, Challenge questions/Extension activities for most able learners, Past Paper Questions to assess progress/understanding, together with mark scheme
• Student Worksheet
• Student Assessment
• DIRT sheet to enable students to reflect on their assessment.
An off-the-shelf outstanding lesson covering:
• The reasons why businesses might want to join together (integrate)
• How businesses actually grow (Internal/Organic vs. External growth)
• Forwards vs. Backwards vs. Horizontal Integration
• Diversification
• Mergers vs. Takeovers
• Advantages and Disadvantages of Merging/Integrating with other organisations
• BONUS CONTENT: Examples of Mergers
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BUSINESS: Stakeholders (FULL LESSON, ASSESSMENT, DIRT SHEET)
Full lesson PowerPoint, Assessment and DIRT Sheet.
Ideal for GCSE, BTEC, Tec Award, and NCFE Business courses including OCR, AQA, EDEXCEL, WJEC.
Also suitable for Citizenship and PSHE lessons.
Complete lesson including:
• Starter activity
• 25-slide Ppt presentation including Key Words, Challenge questions/Extension activities for most able learners, Past Paper Questions to assess progress/understanding, together with mark scheme
• Opportunity for student role play
• Student Assessment
• DIRT sheet to enable students to reflect on their assessment.
An off-the-shelf outstanding lesson covering:
• Definition of ‘Stakeholders’
• Interests of different stakeholders
• Relative power of different stakeholders
• The benefits to the business of listening to various stakeholders
• The potential for conflict between various stakeholders
• BONUS CONTENT: Pressure Groups
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COMPLETE BUSINESS LESSON: Recruitment (INC PPT, ASSESSMENT, DIRT SHEET)
Ideal for GCSE, BTEC, Tec Award, and NCFE Business courses including OCR, AQA, EDEXCEL, WJEC.
Also suitable for Citizenship and PSHE lessons.
Complete lesson including:
• Starter activity
• 30-slide Ppt presentation including Key Words, Extension activities for most able learners, Past Paper Questions to assess progress/understanding (together with mark scheme)
• Student Assessment
• DIRT sheet to enable students to reflect on their assessment.
An off-the-shelf lesson covering:
• What is involved in the recruitment process.
• 9x stages of the recruitment process
• Recruitment Process analysis
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COMPLETE BUSINESS LESSON: Motivation Methods (non-Monetary) (inc. PPT, ASSESSMENT, DIRT SHEET)
Ideal for GCSE, BTEC, Tec Award, and NCFE Business courses including OCR, AQA, EDEXCEL, WJEC.
Also suitable for Citizenship and PSHE lessons.
Complete lesson including:
• Starter activity
• 45-slide Ppt presentation including Key Words, Past Paper Questions to assess progress/understanding (together with mark scheme), opportunity for students to create a role play
• Differentiated worksheets
• Student Assessment
• DIRT sheet to enable students to reflect on their assessment.
An off-the-shelf outstanding lesson covering:
• Appraisal
• Benefits of a Motivated Workforce
• Motivation methods: Fear, Job Enrichment, Job Enlargement, etc.
• BONUS CONTENT: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
• BONUS CONTENT: Leadership Styles
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COMPLETE LESSON: Pay Methods/Remuneration (INC. PPT, ASSESSMENT, DIRT SHEET)
Ideal for GCSE, BTEC, Tec Award, and NCFE Business courses including OCR, AQA, EDEXCEL, WJEC.
Also suitable for Citizenship and PSHE lessons.
Complete lesson including:
• Choice of starter activities
• 28-slide Ppt presentation including Key Words, Challenge questions/Extension activities for most able learners, Past Paper Questions to assess progress/understanding (together with mark scheme)
• Student Assessment
• DIRT sheet to enable students to reflect on their assessment.
An off-the-shelf outstanding lesson covering:
• Whether students think the rate of pay different jobs get is fair
• Recognise different methods of employee remuneration.
• Why do we get paid?
• Calculating pay
• BONUS CONTENT: activity designed to get students thinking about which emotion is stronger (i.e. whether fear or praise would motivate them more).
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COMPLETE DIFFERENTIATED LESSON: Training (INC. LESSON PLAN, PPT, ASSESSMENT, DIRT SHEET)
Ideal for GCSE, BTEC, Tec Award, and NCFE Business courses including OCR, AQA, EDEXCEL, WJEC.
Also suitable for Citizenship and PSHE lessons.
Complete lesson including:
• Lesson plan
• Starter activity
• Differentiated Literacy Activity
• 22-slide Ppt presentation including Key Words, Challenge questions/Extension activities for most able learners, Past Paper Question to assess progress/understanding (together with mark scheme)
• Student Assessment
• DIRT sheet to enable students to reflect on their assessment.
An off-the-shelf outstanding lesson covering:
• To explain why companies choose to spend/not to spend money on training
• To analyse benefits and drawbacks of different training methods
• What does a company’s decision to spend money on training depend on?
• BONUS CONTENT: Justification of which method of training (ON/OFF) would be best in certain situations.
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HUMAN RESOURCES KO SHEET + KO TESTS
3-page revision document consisting of key terms and business content from the 'Human Resources’ unit:
Functional Areas of Business
Internal Organisation of Business
Methods of Communication
Recruitment
Employee Remuneration
Training
Employment Laws
BONUS CONTENT- Includes 5x Knowledge Organiser Tests to assess students’ learning.
Can be used for any business, finance, economics, or enterprise course.
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LIBF Certificate in Financial Studies Unit 1 (FCIS) January 2024 Part B Exam - 90x ‘James and Megan’ Case Study Questions
90x questions (with answers provided) to support students to become familiar and/or test their understanding of the ‘James and Megan’ case study (CeFS Unit 1 January 2024 Exam).
The questions can be used flexibly either within class or given to students to complete as an independent learning/homework activity. By getting students to complete these 90x questions you can be sure that they have read and understood the case study.
As part of the purchase you will be provided with:
PowerPoint that goes through all questions then goes through all questions and answers
Word document that contains a list of all the questions
Word document that contains a list of all the questions and answers
Video going through questions and answers (YouTube)
PowerPoint and Word documents do not include any names or school logos so can be used straight away without any further work on your part - A READY-TO-USE RESOURCE!!!
LIBF Financial Studies Certificate in Financial Studies
Unit 1 - Financial Capability for the Immediate and Short Term (FCIS)
LIBF DipFS Unit 3 (SIF) Past Exam Paper Question Revision Pack
There will be 25x marks of non-case study questions within the Unit 3 exam. In order to support your students’ preparation towards these this resource contains a booklet that includes all non-case study questions the exam board has given students since 2018 as well as all mark schemes.
Both the 7-page question booklet and 55-page mark scheme booklet come in a neat, indexed format without any names / school logos, etc. so can be used straight away without any further work on your part.
Save yourself a significant amount of planning time and use these pre-prepared booklets to ensure your students are familiar with the type of questions they may be asked and are ready to perform strongly in their Unit 3 exam. All questions included have been laboriously screenshotted from January and March Unit 3 past papers/mark schemes.
As a teacher you may choose to go through these questions in class or give to students to independently plan responses/write answers in their own time (and self-assess).
I have also created a similar resource for Units 1, 2 and 4:
Unit 1: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12773823
Unit 2: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12819479
Unit 4: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12819481
LIBF CeFS Unit 1 (FCIS) Past Exam Paper Question Revision Pack
There will be 25x marks of non-case study questions within the Unit 1 exam. In order to support your students’ preparation towards these this resource contains a booklet that includes all non-case study questions the exam board has given students since 2018 as well as all mark schemes.
Both the 7-page question booklet and 53-page mark scheme booklet come in a neat, indexed format without any names / school logos, etc. so can be used straight away without any further work on your part.
Save yourself a significant amount of planning time and use these pre-prepared booklets to ensure your students are familiar with the type of questions they may be asked and are ready to perform strongly in their Unit 1 exam. All questions included have been laboriously screenshotted from January and March Unit 1 past papers/mark schemes.
As a teacher you may choose to go through these questions in class or give to students to independently plan responses/write answers in their own time (and self-assess).
I have also created a similar resource for Units 2, 3 and 4:
Unit 2: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12819479
Unit 3: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12773830
Unit 4: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12819481
LIBF Certificate in Financial Studies Unit 1 (FCIS) January 2024 Part B Exam - 75x ‘Vea’ Case Study Questions
75x questions (with answers provided) to support students to become familiar and/or test their understanding of the ‘Vea’ case study (CeFS Unit 1 January 2024 Exam).
The questions can be used flexibly either within class or given to students to complete as an independent learning/homework activity. By getting students to complete these 75x questions you can be sure that they have read and understood the case study.
As part of the purchase you will be provided with:
PowerPoint that goes through all questions then goes through all questions and answers
Word document that contains a list of all the questions
Word document that contains a list of all the questions and answers
Video going through questions and answers (YouTube)
PowerPoint and Word documents do not include any names or school logos so can be used straight away without any further work on your part - A READY-TO-USE RESOURCE!!!
LIBF Financial Studies Certificate in Financial Studies
Unit 1 - Financial Capability for the Immediate and Short Term (FCIS)
Complete lesson on Critical Path Analysis / Flow Diagrams.
Uses the disaster in the Philippines (Typhoon Haiyan) as the base for students to create a relief effort.
Ideal for teaching students how certain activities need to be prioritised over others.
Potential for students to do this independently if you wish.
Covers:
How to draw Critical Path / Flow diagrams
Whether activities can be done simultaneously
Stages in the relief effort
Evaluation of what the speed/success of the reconstruction effort will depend on.
Includes:
Starter Activity
Links to topical videos
Extension activities to stretch the learning of most able students
Worksheet to guide students through learning (opportunity here to get students to work independently)
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LIBF CeFS Unit 2 (FCML) Past Exam Paper Question Revision Pack
There will be 25x marks of non-case study questions within the Unit 2 exam. In order to support your students’ preparation towards these this resource contains a booklet that includes all non-case study questions the exam board has assessed students against since 2017 as well as all mark schemes.
Both the 10-page question booklet and 64-page mark scheme booklet come in a neat, indexed format without any names / school logos, etc. so can be used straight away without any further work on your part.
Save yourself a significant amount of planning time and use these pre-prepared booklets to ensure your students are familiar with the type of questions they may be asked and are ready to perform strongly in their Unit 2 exam. All questions included have been laboriously screenshotted from Unit 2 past papers/mark schemes.
As a teacher you may choose to go through these questions in class or give to students to independently plan responses/write answers in their own time (and self-assess).
I have also created similar resources for Units 1, 3 and 4:
Unit 1: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12773823
Unit 3: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12773830
Unit 4: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12819481
LIBF Diploma in Financial Studies Unit 3 (SIF) March 2024 Part B Exam - 60x ‘Juliet and Ella’ Case Study Questions
60x questions (with answers provided) to support students to become familiar and/or test their understanding of the ‘Juliet and Ella’ case study (DipFS Unit 3 March 2024 Exam).
The questions can be used flexibly either within class or given to students to complete as an independent learning/homework activity. By getting students to complete these 60x questions you can be sure that they have read and understood the case study.
As part of the purchase you will be provided with:
PowerPoint that goes through all questions then goes through all questions and answers
Word document that contains a list of all the questions
Word document that contains a list of all the questions and answers
Revision videos for each topic within unit 3 (YouTube)
PowerPoint and Word documents do not include any names or school logos so can be used straight away without any further work on your part - A READY-TO-USE RESOURCE!!!
LIBF Diploma in Financial Studies
Unit 3 - Sustainability of an Individual’s Finances (SIF)
LIBF Certificate in Financial Studies Unit 1 (FCIS) March 2024 Part B Exam - 70x ‘Jade’ Case Study Questions
70x questions (with answers provided) to support students to become familiar and/or test their understanding of the ‘Jade’ case study (CeFS Unit 1 March 2024 Exam).
The questions can be used flexibly either within class or given to students to complete as an independent learning/homework activity. By getting students to complete these 70x questions you can be sure that they have read and understood the case study.
As part of the purchase you will be provided with:
PowerPoint that goes through all questions then goes through all questions and answers
Word document that contains a list of all the questions
Word document that contains a list of all the questions and answers
Revision videos for each topic within unit 1 (YouTube)
PowerPoint and Word documents do not include any names or school logos so can be used straight away without any further work on your part - A READY-TO-USE RESOURCE!!!
LIBF Financial Studies Certificate in Financial Studies
Unit 1 - Financial Capability for the Immediate and Short Term (FCIS)