Another in the popular range of student support worksheets. This one seeks to explain the concept of profit in ways that look to encourage students to build up their understanding in a gradual and meaningful way.

A student revision handout aimed at improving their knowledge of core economic concepts. This handout looks specifically at the following topic areas: the economic problem; economic models and assumptions; scientific method; normative and positive economics; ceteris paribus; renewable and non-renewable resources; economic agents; specialisation and division of labour; production possibility frontiers; opportunity costs; economics as a social science; factors of production and finally the function of money.

A detailed series of notes aimed at encouraging independent learning and helping current Year 11 pupils to gain a better insight into Economics. This lesson looks specifically at the Economic Problem and introduces students to the concepts of micro and macro economics; opportunity costs; PPF curves; positive and normative statements and the basic concept of an economic model.

A PowerPoint based quiz based directly upon the hit ITV show including graphics and music. This resource is fully editable so you can adapt it to your own needs, adding your own questions therefore making it suitable for A Level. I have used this resource in my GCSE classes with great success and students like to see if they can beat the challenge of the 15 questions. I would recommend you use the cursor key to move between questions though as the mouse control is rather sensitive.

A revision resource for the new AQA Business specification. This guide looks specifically at the topics of capacity; capacity utilisation; spare capacity; unit costs; labour productivity and links between capacity and other operational targets.

A revision resource for the new AQA Business specification. The handout covers an outline of what is meant by operations management; the concepts of labour and capital intensive; the main operational objectives of costs, quality, dependability, speed of response and flexibility, environmental objectives and added value. It also looks at some of the key internal and external influences acting upon the objectives.

New AQA Business specification. Best value package combining the three separate management and leadership chapters relating to the new specification. This covers setting understanding management, leadership and decision making; understanding management decision making and understanding the role and importance of stakeholders.

New AQA Business specification. Best value package combining the three separate introductory chapters relating to the new specification. This covers understanding the nature and purpose of business; understanding different business forms and understanding that businesses operate within an external environment.

New AQA Business specification. Best value package combining the four separate marketing chapters relating to the new specification. This covers setting marketing objectives; understanding markets and customers; segmentation, targeting and positioning (STP) and using the marketing mix.

A revision resource for students studying the new AQA Business specification. This mammoth chapter looks at each of the 7P’s; product life cycle; extension strategies; the boston matrix; digital marketing; e-commerce; the need for an integrated marketing mix; influences acting upon the marketing mix; consumer and business-to-business marketing; new product development; pricing decisions; the promotional mix; multi-channel distribution channels; people, process and the physical environment. Phew!

A revision resource designed to complement the new AQA Business Specification. This handout is focused upon the idea of market segmentation. It examines demographic, income, behavioural and geographic forms of segmentation. It also considers the benefits and drawbacks of market segmentation, the formal STP model, niche and mass marketing, and positioning.

A revision resource for the new AQA Business specification that considers the key issues of correlation analysis; price and income elasticity; the purpose of market research; primary and secondary research; sampling; confidence levels; market mapping and quantitative and qualitative data.

NEW AQA 2015 Spec This revision hand out considers the role of marketing and the setting of marketing objectives. It examines the various types of objective set by the marketing function and includes market share, sales growth, market growth and market size calculations. It also looks at some of the key internal and external influences acting upon marketing objectives.

NEW AQA Business Spec 2015 This revision hand out examines the impact that stakeholders have upon a modern business. It starts by analysing what is a stakeholder and their divergent needs before assessing their conflicting and overlapping interests. It then considers the importance of stakeholder mapping in analysing the power and interest of stakeholder groups, before concluding with an assessment of how stakeholder engagement enables a firm to manage their stakeholder relationships more effectively.

NEW AQA 2015 Business Specification This revision handout considers the importance of decision making within a business, looking in particular at scientific and intuitive decisions. It also examines the role of decision making models and techniques such as decision tree analysis and the main influences acting upon management decisions.

NEW AQA 2015 Business Specification A revision sheet that analyses the purpose and role of a manager/leader and how they make decisions. It considers what a manager does and looks at different management and leadership styles and the influences that act upon them. It focuses also upon the Tannenbaum Schimdt Continuum and the Blake Mouton Grid, as well as looking at the relative effectiveness of each management style.

NEW AQA 2015 Business Specification This revision sheet considers the impact of the external environment upon a business. It looks at some of the key elements of PESTLE and then examines in more depth the concepts of competition, income, economic conditions, interest rates, exchange rates, demographics and finally environmental issues and fair trade.

NEW AQA Business Spec 2015. A revision sheet that considers the concepts of sole traders, private and public limited companies and not-for-profit organisations as a starting point. It then analyses the impact of incorporation in more depth, assessing dividends, market capitalisation and ordinary share capital before assessing the impact of shareholders and share prices upon a company.

NEW AQA 2015 Business Specification. This revision sheet looks at the purpose of business and business activity. It considers the economic background of the UK and draws upon key concepts like adding value. It then analyses the role of mission statements and corporate objectives (including SMART targets) before concluding with a look at revenue, costs and profits.

New AQA 2015 Economics teaching resource to illustrate the basics behind economic methodology. It considers its place in the sciences and analyses normative and positive economic statements.