The main features of different forms of business organisation:
Sole traders, partnerships, private and public limited companies, franchises and joint ventures
Differences between unincorporated businesses and limited companies
Concepts of risk, ownership and limited liability
Recommend and justify a suitable form of business organisation to owners/management in a given situation
Business organisations in the public sector, e.g. public corporations
In this lesson I cover:
Business activity in terms of primary, secondary and tertiary sectors:
Basis of business classification, using examples to illustrate the classification
Reasons for the changing importance of business classification, e.g. in developed and developing
economies
business enterprises between private sector and public sector in a mixed economy
In this lesson I cover:
Enterprise and entrepreneurship
Characteristics of successful entrepreneurs
Contents of a business plan and how business plans assist entrepreneurs
Why and how governments support business start-ups, e.g. grants, training schemes
In this lesson I cover:
The purpose and nature of business activity
Concepts of needs, wants, scarcity and opportunity cost
Importance of specialisation
Purpose of business activity
The concept of adding value and how added value can be increased
In this lesson I cover:
Identify and classify costs:
Classifying costs using examples, e.g. fixed, variable, average, total
Use cost data to help make simple cost-based decisions, e.g. to stop production or continue
Economics and diseconomies of scale:
The concept of economies of scale with examples, e.g. purchasing, marketing, financial, managerial, technical
The concept of diseconomies of scale with examples, e.g. poor communication, lack of commitment from employees, weak coordination
Break-even analysis:
The concept of break-even
Construct, complete or amend a simple break-even chart
Interpret a given chart and use it to analyse a situation
Calculate break-even output from given data
Define, calculate and interpret the margin of safety
Use break-even analysis to help make simple decisions, e.g. impact of higher price
Understand the limitations of break-even analysis
This power point presentation breaks down the assignment criteria to help you understand what you need to write, research, explain, analyse or evaluate to get the desired grade in your BTEC Business Level 3.
The presentation starts with some information about the unit - then states the assignment – then explanation/ breaking down of the assignment to help you get an idea of what to write – followed by an example.
Some of my presentations also contain:
How much you need to write to pass a certain piece of work.
Tells you the ideal format of the assignment– PowerPoint presentation, report, and spreadsheet or design software’s.
In this PowerPoint presentation I cover:
dentifying and understanding customer needs:
● what customer needs are: price, quality, choice, convenience
● the importance of identifying and understanding
customers: generating sales, business survival.
There are also 3 exam style questions to help student prepare for the exam.
There are four comprehensive PowerPoint presentations in this bundle covering everything students need to know for the below topics:
1.2.1 Customer needs
1.2.2 Market research
1.2.3 Market segmentation
1.2.4 The competitive environment
All presentations are informative, has images, questions and some activities.
In this PowerPoint presentation I cover:
The purpose of market research:
Methods of market research:
primary research: survey, questionnaire, focus group, observation
secondary research: internet, market reports, government reports.
The use of data in market research:
qualitative and quantitative data
the role of social media in collecting market research data
the importance of the reliability of market research data.
There are 5 exam style question at the end; to help you further.
In this PowerPoint presentation I cover:
Who business stakeholders are and their different objectives:
shareholders (owners),
employees, customers,
managers, suppliers, local community,
pressure groups, the government.
Stakeholders and businesses:
how stakeholders are affected by business activity
how stakeholders impact business activity
possible conflicts between stakeholder groups.
I have also added one extra lesson starter PowerPoint which talks and helps students understand conflict of between different stakeholders.
At the end of the presentation, there is an activity for students to put their learning into effect.
Stakeholder objectives and Business growth
complete revision covering:
what is Stakeholders
What is Objectives in business
Different Stakeholder objectives
Conflict between different stakeholder objectives
Business growth and how business size is measured
there is also 7 questions to practice.
This is a powerpoint which can be used as a complete lesson or a revision session with students.
Topics covered:
What is recruitment
The process of recruitment and selection
Job advertisement places
CV and application forms
Employment contract and whats included
some Questions to help remember the key points of the powerpoint.
in this powerpoint I cover the following key aspects of GCSE/ IGCSE business studies.
What is training
Why businesses train their employees?
What is Induction training
Different ways of training staff/ employee
I have also prepared some Questions to help students remember the key point of the revision session/ lesson.