Sarah Hilton has been a business examiner for over 20 years and a business teacher for longer. She is now a teacher trainer, business teacher and qualification developer. She runs the website revisionstation which provides smashing business teaching resources at budget prices.
Sarah Hilton has been a business examiner for over 20 years and a business teacher for longer. She is now a teacher trainer, business teacher and qualification developer. She runs the website revisionstation which provides smashing business teaching resources at budget prices.
This lesson is written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation and contains a comprehensive student worksheet and a teacher PowerPoint
These are the topics covered in this lesson:
a) Mergers and takeovers:
• reasons for mergers and takeovers
• distinction between mergers and takeovers
• horizontal and vertical integration
• conglomerates
• financial risks and rewards
b) Advantages and disadvantages of inorganic growth
This lesson is written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation and contains a comprehensive student worksheet and a teacher PowerPoint
These are the topics covered in this lesson:
a) Methods of growing organically
b) Advantages and disadvantages of organic growth
This lesson is written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation and contains a comprehensive student worksheet and a teacher PowerPoint
These are the topics covered in this lesson:
a) Calculation of time-series analysis: moving averages (three period/four quarter)
b) Interpretation of scatter graphs and line of best fit: extrapolation of past data to future
c) Limitations of quantitative sales forecasting techniques
This lesson is written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation and contains a comprehensive student worksheet and a teacher PowerPoint
These are the topics covered in this lesson:
a) Simple payback.
b) Average (accounting) rate of return.
c) Discounted cash flow (net present value only).
d) Calculations and interpretations of figures generated by these techniques.
e) Limitations of these techniques.
This lesson is written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation and contains a comprehensive student worksheet and a teacher PowerPoint
These are the topics covered in this lesson:
a) Nature and purpose of critical path analysis.
b) Complete and interpret simple networks to identify the critical path.
c) Calculate:
• earliest start time
• latest finish time
• total float.
d) Limitations of using critical path analysis.
This lesson is written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation and contains a comprehensive student worksheet and a teacher PowerPoint
These are the topics covered in this lesson:
a) Identifying key risks through risk assessment:
• natural disasters
• IT systems failure
• loss of key staff
b) Planning for risk mitigation:
• business continuity
• succession planning
This lesson is written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation and contains a comprehensive student worksheet and a teacher PowerPoint
These are the topics covered in this lesson:
a) Calculate and interpret the following to help make business decisions:
• labour productivity
• labour turnover and retention
• absenteeism
b) Limitations of these calculations
c) Human resource strategies to increase productivity and retention and to reduce turnover and absenteeism:
• financial rewards
• employee share ownership
• consultation strategies
• empowerment strategies
This lesson is written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation and contains a comprehensive student worksheet and a teacher PowerPoint
These are the topics covered in this lesson:
a) Calculate:
• profitability (gross profit margin and profit for the year* / operating profit margin)
• liquidity (current and acid test ratios)
• gearing ratio
• return on capital employed (ROCE).
b) Interpret ratios to make business decisions.
c) The limitations of ratio analysis.
This lesson is written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation and contains a comprehensive student worksheet and a teacher PowerPoint
These are the topics covered in this lesson:
a) Statement of comprehensive income (profit and loss account):
• key information
• stakeholder interest.
b) Statement of financial position (balance sheet)
• key information
• stakeholder interest.
This lesson is written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation and contains a comprehensive student worksheet and a teacher PowerPoint
These are the topics covered in this lesson:
a) Organisational culture
b) Size of organisation
c) Time/speed of change
d) Managing resistance to change
e) Transformative leadership
This lesson is written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation and contains a comprehensive student worksheet and a teacher PowerPoint
These are the topics covered in this lesson:
a) Ethics of strategic decisions: trade-offs between profit and ethics
b) Pay and rewards
c) Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
This lesson is written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation and contains a comprehensive student worksheet and a teacher PowerPoint
These are the topics covered in this lesson:
a) Internal and external stakeholders.
b) Stakeholder objectives.
c) Stakeholder and shareholder influences:
• stakeholder: that the business considers all of its stakeholders in its business decisions/objectives
• shareholder: that the business should focus purely on shareholder returns (increasing share price and dividends) in its business decisions/objectives.
d) The potential for conflict between profit-based (shareholder) and wider objectives (stakeholder).
This lesson is written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation and contains a comprehensive student worksheet and a teacher PowerPoint
These are the topics covered in this lesson:
a) Nature and purpose of contribution
b) Calculation and interpretation of contribution
c) Use of contribution as a decision-making technique
This is a complete lesson written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation and it covers the following topics:
The purpose of business
Reasons for starting a business
Basic functions and types of business
Goods and services
Needs and wants
Factors of production
Opportunity cost
Three main business sectors
Business enterprise and entrepreneurship
Characteristics of am entrepreneur
Objectives of an entrepreneur
Dynamic nature of business
This is a complete lesson written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation and it covers the following topics:
What are business aims and objectives
Purpose of setting objectives
Role of objectives in running a business
Changing objectives
Use of objectives in judging success
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:
Understand the methods used by businesses when expanding
Organic growth through franchising
Opening new stores
Expanding through e-commerce
Outsourcing
External growth though mergers and takeovers
Discuss the benefits of expansion
Unit cost advantages due to economies of scale
Discuss the drawbacks of expansion
Diseconomies of scale
Understand the meaning of purchasing and technical economies of scale
Understand that with growth businesses increase the risk of diseconomies of scale occurring
Due to poor communication
Coordination issues
Reduced staff motivation
Calculate and interpret average unit costs
This is a complete lesson written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation and it covers the following topics:
Students should be able to understand the factors that influence where a business is located, including:
proximity to the market
availability of raw materials
labour
competition
costs
This is a complete lesson written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation and it covers the following topics:
Ethical considerations
Trade off between ethics and profit
Environmental considerations
Impact of traffic congestion
Recycling
Disposing of waste
Noise and air pollution
Sustainability
Global warming
Using scarce resources
This is a complete lesson written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation and it covers the following topics:
Impact of the changing use of ICT and how it influences business activity
E-commerce
To access wider markets
Digital communication
Changing the way that business communicates with stakeholders