PowerPoint with link to useful video, introducing main concepts. Detailed online worksheet taking students through analysis of effects of interest changes on small businesses.

My students asked me for a list of all the formulae they might need for Edexcel Business Studies unit 3 to help in revision.

An end of year task for year 9 to help prepare them for GCSE. Useful for after the test, to maintain interest.

Spreadsheet activity involving setting up formulae and entering data to compare pay monthly with pay as you go mobile phone tariffs. Suitable for spreadsheet beginners, assumes very little prior knowledge of Excel.

Lesson outline and handout for Business and Communication Systems. Students imagine they are recruiting for a post in their own imaginary business and write a job description and person specification. Handout shows them a typical layout.

Business and Communication Systems lesson activity: Selection 1: CVs and application forms Pupils identify differences between them, then write their own CV.

Business and Communication Systems Lesson introducing methods of recruitment. Divide class into groups, each group recommends a suitable method for one of several jobs which are included in the PowerPoint - I usually print these out full size for the groups. Homework based on pupils' own fictional business.

A PowerPoint giving instructions and debrief questions for a simulation comparing traditional quality inspection wth total quality management.

Written for Business & Communication Systems, this is a lesson on teleworking and hot desking, including introduction and class activities in the PowerPoint, and an extended activity in the worksheet. Teleworking, hot-desking, Business and communication systems, workplace organisation

A PowerPoint with starter, practical lesson activity and homework written for Business and Communication Systems. For the starter, students need examples of job adverts from a newspaper. I suggest getting the pupils to bring these in for homework (and having spares!).

Business and Communication Systems This lesson follows several where pupils have written a job advert, job description and person specification, which are used in the activity. In this lesson they plan interview questions and role play interviews, with peer feedback.

PowerPoint to introduce the 2012 controlled assessment for AQA GCSE Business and Communication Systems. I've also included a more accessible version of the task sheet with images and dyslexia friendly font.

Practical activity for Business & Communication Systems Students choose applicants based on letters of application and references, then write a letter of rejection. Practises letter writing while covering the purpose of a reference in a practical way.

Worksheet on sorting businesses into capital and labour.