3.9 Strategic Methods: how to pursue strategies; comprises; organic and external growth, Greiner, economies and diseconomies of scale, synergy, innovation, kaizen, trading internationally, Bartlett and Ghoshal and digital technology

Marketing 3.3 comprises; STP, the marketing mix, distribution, Boston matrix, market mapping, product life-cycle and digital marketing.

Marketing Part One comprises; an introduction to marketing, market research, sampling, time-series analysis, correlation, confidence levels and elasticity.

3.7 Analysing the strategic position of a business (Part One) comprises; mission, objectives, strategy, tactics, profitability, gearing, liquidity, Kaplan and Norton, Elkington, PESTLE, growth, exchange rates, fiscal and monetary policies.

3.7 Analysing the strategic position of a business (Part Two) comprises; SWOT, PESTLE, CSR, Porter five forces, payback, ARR, net present value and sensitivity analysis.

3.8 Choosing strategic direction comprises; Ansoff. Porter and Bowman

3.4 Decision making to improve operational performance comprises; introduction to operations, added value, capacity, unit costs, labour productivity, JIT, lean production, quality control and assurance, TQM, methods of production, inventory control and outsourcing.

This is the second unit of the A level course and covers management, leadership, stakeholders and decision making.

In this unit we cover managing change and culture.

3.6 Decision making to improve human resource performance comprises; human resource objectives, internal and external influences, labour turnover , labour retention, productivity, job design, organisational design, HR plans, motivation and improving employer/employee relations.

3.5 Decision making to improve financial performance comprises; investment, capital structure, costs, revenues, profit, contribution, break-even, cash-flow, budgets, variance analysis and sources of finance.

Business A level is suitable for use as; a self-study course, for examination revision and booster sessions, private tuition and cover work for staff absence which can be delivered by a non-specialist teacher. It is a complete 10 unit course covering; Introduction to Business, Management and Leadership, Marketing, Operations, Finance, Human Resources, Business Strategy (3) and Managing Change. It comprises question and answer Powerpoint videos delivered with the teacher on screen . It is accompanied by student friendly note taking material which can be easily monitored. Also included are conventional editable Powerpoint slides ( in excess of 1000). Each unit is assessed by a multiple-choice section with solutions. Written an presented by Richard Slatter a recently retired Head of Department with 35 years teaching experience.