A colourful and engaging resource designed for introducing profitability ratios (gross profit margin, operating profit margin and return on capital employed). Included in this presentation: A colourful title slide detailing the learning (lesson objectives) and equipment required for the lesson Two detailed and colourful slides explaining what ratios analysis is and why it is conducted. An introductory recap activity where students are required to calculate missing values for an income statement and balance sheet (answers provided) Step by step and contextualised examples of how to calculate all three profitability ratios Activities on all three ratios for students to complete (answers provided) Explanations, analysis and evaluation of what could cause these ratios to improve and worsen. This resource contains 29 slides and took me an hour and a half to fully go through.

Description A COLOURFUL, INFORMATIVE and ENGAGING presentation that on depreciation. Included in this lesson: A colourful and informative title slide that outlines the key skills covered in this topic, a list of equipment required, animated gif to grab the attention of students, and timing ‘prompt’ to get students to get the title down and equipment out as quickly as possible A ‘guess the question’ starter activity where students are given the answers to ten questions relating to other Accounts / Finance related topics. Students need to work out what the ten questions were to get those answers. Answers are included in the presentation An explanation of what the lesson aims are An explanation of what assets are, contextualised to students Informative, colourful and contextualised slides explaining what current and non-current assets, and depreciation are A step by step guide to show how depreciation is calculated using the straight-line method, followed by an example for students to calculate (answers provided) An explanation of the advantages and disadvantages of using the straight-line method to calculate depreciation The same step by step guide, advantages and disadvantages for the reducing balance method An exam style question where students need to calculate the value of depreciation, calculate how this affects the estimated value of an asset and when the right time to sell an asset it. Answers provided in the presentation with explanations I’ve designed this lesson so that it can simply be opened and taught immediately. Each slide is self explanatory and easy to follow. There are 38 slides included in this lesson and it took me just under 2 hours to go through.

4 Practice break-even diagram questions with answers provided Can be printed used in lessons or as revision

This 55 slide resource covers key exam technique skills for Eduqas A Level Business. Presentation is comprehensive with detailed explanations, examples, questions, mark schemes and links.

This worksheet tests students understanding of the importance of cash, cash flow forecasts and how to solve cash flow problems. There are five activities included in this resource: Activity 1 - A fill the blanks activity testing students’ understanding of key cash flow terminology Activity 2 - A cash flow forecast with missing values that students will need to calculate Activity 3 - A true or false activity that tests students’ ability to interpret the information from the cash flow forecast they completed for activity 2 Activity 4 - An anagram activity where students have to solve five anagrams of ways businesses can solve cash flow problems. Once solved, they need to briefly explain how each method helps with poor cash flow Activity 5 - A picture round where students look at 9 good and services, and have to decide which four of the nine are likely to experience short-term cash-flow problems. A brief answer is required underneath explaining their reasons for each answer All answers have been provided in depth This can be completed in class / for homework / as a peer marked activity to save you marking! This worksheet took students around 25 minutes to complete

A detailed and colourful worksheet designed to test a range of skills covered in this topic. The worksheet contains 6 activities, each taking between 5 and 15 minutes to complete. It took most of my students between 45 minutes and an hour to finish this worksheet. The activities are as follows: Activity 1 - A fill the blanks activity that test students’ knowledge of the vocal and terminology used Activity 2 - Calculating PED, percentage changes and recognising the different types of PED Activity 3 - ‘Developing your answers’ - students need to recognise and explain factors that influence PED Activity 4 - Revenue boxes Activity 5 - Diagrams Activity 6 - More complex calculations / application ALL ANSWERS ARE PROVIDED IN DETAIL and have been written in a way that is broken down for students to easily understand. I ran this activity as a peer marking exercise and collected everyone’s work at the end of the lesson to check if there were any gaps in understand to review the following lesson. This saved a lot of time!

Test your students’ knowledge of cash flow forecasts with this UNIQUE activity that demonstrates if students can calculate each of the different values. This cash flow forecast contains a number of intentional errors that students need to identify and correct. All instructions are included in the activity, but the key thing to note is that all yellow values cannot change, any others can. Included in this activity are the following: Page 1 - Instructions on how to complete the activity, a cash flow forecast (in colour) and an explanation of what the first error is and how it should have been calculated. Page 2 - All errors have been circled. This can be shown after the cash flow forecast has been completed. Pages 2 and 3 - Detailed explanations of all errors and how they should have been calculated. Page 4 - The completed cash flow forecast with all answers. How I run the activity: Give students up to 10 minutes to complete the cash flow forecast Once finished, ask students to explain any errors they have found (this took my class 10 minutes) Show the circled errors on the board so that students can circle them Explain each error in detail Show the completed cash flow forecast on page 3 and get students to mark them. This will save you time.

Included in this resource is a detailed, colourful, engaging and informative presentation on critical path analysis. I have broken this topic down in easy to understand sections as students often find it very challenging. The PowerPoint contains: A detailed and colourful title slide that includes all learning objectives A fill the blanks recap starter activity on ratio analysis / financial statement. All answers are included. An explanation of what project management is and its importance. Contextualised examples of projects applicable to critical path are included **A hyperlink to a great video **of Apple’s new HQ is included. It shows the scale of the project, cost and time taken An activity where students learn the importance of completing activities simultaneously to save time rather than a sequence A step by step breakdown over 10 slides on what a network diagram is, what the values and characters mean, and how to work out EST, LFT, critical path. 5 network diagrams ranging in difficulty all with answers provided Detailed notes and activities on float times Notes on the advantages and disadvantages of critical path as well as how to evaluate the usefulness of critical path analysis as a planning tool A separate supplementary worksheet is included in this resource with all of the activities included in the PowerPoint. These can be printed for students. All answer are in the presentation. Animations have been used throughout to make this as engaging for students as possible The presentation contains 52 slides and took me two and a half hours to go through with students.

20 multiple-choice questions on market share. The questions focus on calculations, definitions and an interpretation of values. Students can mark answers themselves. Save yourself some time!

The topic of balance sheets is one that many students (as well as teachers!) find challenging to grasp… This colourful, informative and engaging lesson has been created with this in mind by breaking down the topic down and guiding students step-by-step, using a range of clear explanations, fun activities and demonstrations. Colour, appealing fonts and images have been used throughout. Included in this presentation: A colourful and informative title slide, outlining key concepts, skills and learning objectives. Three starter activities (for the purpose of differentiation) that reviews what the income statement is, how different values are calculated as well as profitability ratios. Each activity has differing levels of difficulty, so you may do as many or as little as you choose. Detailed answers to each activity are provided. An embedded link to a Kahoot Quiz I have created is imbedded on one slide, and introduces students to concepts of assets, liabilities and equity. The Kahoot has 10 questions where students have to answer mind-blowing facts about Apple, such as how many patents its owns and the amount of cash they have in the bank. Each question contains an image / gif to engage students. Detailed, broken down and contextualised explanations of types of assets and liabilities An activity where students need to identify types of assets (answers provided) An activity where students need to categories assets, liabilities and equity Step by step instructions (using engaging colours) to explain how the balance sheet is calculated An easy to understand explanation as to why the balance sheet has its name, and assets / equity and liabilities are always equal Explanation of why balance sheets are produced and what many of its uses are A challenging activity where students need to calculate values in a balance sheet. I have found this resource great in helping students understand the topic and is a great introduction to future topics, such as liquidity ratios. This lesson took me 3 x 45 lessons to complete as I used all three starter activities with my students. File size is just over 400MB

A colourful and engaging resource on Marketing Objectives. Included in this presentation; A colourful and informative title slide outlining learning objectives. This slide includes animations A Catchphrase starter activity where students guess the name of a business or product fro a range of picture clues A recap fill the blanks starter activity that tests what student have learned about marketing so far (PowerPoint slide can be printed for students and answer key included) Explanation of aims, objectives and mission statements Match the mission statement activity Detailed and contextualised notes on marketing strategy, SMART objectives There are 35 slides in total and this lesson took me an hour to complete

A detailed worksheet with a range of explanations and activities on critical path analysis and completing network diagrams. There are eight activities included, spread over 5 tasks, ranging from step by step guidance as to how the diagram is completed, to float times and identifying the critical path. I’ve tried to make it as easy as possible for students and teachers to follow. All answers have been included at the back. Save yourself some marking and give the answers for students to peer mark if you wish!

A 52 slide presentation detailing capacity and capacity utilisation. This presentation includes: A depreciation starter activity Introductory activity on the concept of capacity Examples of capacity utilisation in different contexts Calculation activity Activity demonstrating hoe capacity utilisation impacts costs / average costs Detailed notes throughout This lesson took me an hour to go through.

This worksheet contains revision notes and activities on how to calculate fixed costs, variable costs, total costs, average costs, marginal costs, direct costs and indirect costs) All answers are included The worksheet is colourful and creative throughout This worksheet contains 7 pages of activities and took my students between 30 - 45 minutes to complete Can be given as classwork / homework / revision

A simple worksheet where students need to calculate the payback period of 4 investment options. Answer key included

This PowerPoint introduces the theory of Porter’s Five Forces Contextualised examples included (including why Apple hasn’t entered the airline example) Each force is explained individually Notes provided throughout PowerPoint is colourful and engaging

This resource is a detailed, comprehensive PowerPoint (124 slides) on change management. The resource is split into four separate lessons that breaks down the topic in manageable chunks. The resource contains: several starter activities videos animations exam practice detailed notes Coliurful and engaging throughout. This resource lasted a full week of lessons (3 hours) for me

Notes and videos on job, batch and flow production

Using MCDONALD’S TSUKIMI BURGER, Tesco’s failure to succeed in the US, Apple’s failure to succeed in India, and many others, this PowerPoint seeks to explore the reasons why businesses wish to sell in international markets, the challenges and constraints. Included in this PowerPoint: A detailed title page, outlining the key skills covered in this topic A recap on moving averages with answers. This topic is included in some syllabi earlier in the marketing unit but can be deleted if not required A starter activity introducing the concept of globalisation where students need to match McDonalds products based on the country whey are sold (demonstrating how products need to be adapted based on the market they are targeting). Answers are provided An explanation of reasons why businesses choose to sell products in overseas markets A contextualised example for each reason Detailed explanations as to each of the reasons why how marketing activities need to change depending on which country goods are being sold Video 1: Reasons why Tesco failed in US (poor marketing) Video 2: Reasons why Apple failed in India (poor marketing) Introduction to some of the factors that make trade between countries easier This lesson took me an hour and a half to go through.

Net Present Value is a topic that students often find challenging. This presentation has been produced so that students of all abilities can access the topic. Using lots of colour and engaging slides, contextualised examples as well as step by step examples, this presentation has proven to be very successful in getting my students to understand this net present value effectively. Included in this presentation: A detailed title slide including key skills covered in the lesson and equipment required Initial starter activity where students need to calculate the payback period and average (accounting) rate of return. The aim of this activity is to get students to think about how using both of these methods can provide conflicting results (one investment option could have a shorter payback period where the other could have a higher average rate of return). Activity and answers included in slide, as well as explanation of how these figures were calculated. Step by step guidance as to what the net present value and time value of money means (we look at why it is better to have £100 now rather than next year) Activities that explain what inflation and interest rates are, and how they affect the value of money (guess the price activity can be done on mini whiteboards or completed as a class) Step by step guide demonstrating how net present value is calculated An explanation of how net present value can be applied to investment decisions An evaluation of the usefulness of net present value, with examples provided. This presentation contains 53 slides and took me just under 2 hours to go through in detail.