5.3.1 What profit is and why it is important: • How a profit is made • Importance of profit to private sector businesses, e.g. reward for risk-taking/enterprise, source of finance • Difference between profit and cash 5.3.2 Income statements: • Main features of an income statement, e.g. revenue, cost of sales, gross profit, profit and retained profit • Use simple income statements in decision making based on profit calculations (constructing income statements will not be assessed) *Questions and suggested answers"

5.5.1 Profitability: • The concept and importance of profitability 5.5.2 Liquidity: • The concept and importance of liquidity 5.5.3 How to interpret the financial performance of a business by calculating and analysing profitability ratios and liquidity ratios: • Gross profit margin • Profit margin • Return on Capital Employed • Current ratio • Acid test ratio 5.5.4 Why and how accounts are used: • Needs of different users of accounts and ratio analysis • How users of accounts and ratio results might use information to help make decisions, e.g. whether to lend to or invest in the business Questions and suggested answers

5.2.1 The importance of cash and of cash-flow forecasting: • Why cash is important to a business • What a cash-flow forecast is, how a simple one is constructed and the importance of it • Amend or complete a simple cash-flow forecast • How to interpret a simple cash-flow forecast • How a short-term cash-flow problem might be overcome, e.g. increasing loans, delaying payments, asking debtors to pay more quickly 5.2.2 Working capital: • The concept and importance of working capital *questions and suggested answers"

2.4.1 Why effective communication is important and the methods used to achieve it: • Effective communication and its importance to business • Benefits and limitations of different communication methods including those based on information technology (IT) • Recommend and justify which communication method to use in given circumstances 2.4.2 Demonstrate an awareness of communication barriers: • How communication barriers arise and problems of ineffective communication; how communication barriers can be reduced or removed Questions and suggested answers

PPT covering: Need for business objectives and the importance of them Different business objectives, e.g. survival, growth, profit and market share Objectives of social enterprises Main internal and external stakeholder groups Objectives of different stakeholder groups How these objectives might conflict with each other, use examples Questions and suggested answers

2.3.1 Recruitment and selecting employees: • Recruitment and selection methods • Difference between internal recruitment and external recruitment • Main stages in recruitment and selection of employees • Recommend and justify who to employ in given circumstances • Benefits and limitations of part-time employees and full-time employees Questions and suggested answers

• Simple hierarchical structures: span of control, levels of hierarchy, chain of command • Roles and responsibilities of directors, managers, supervisors, other employees in an organisation and inter-relationships between them 2.2.2 The role of management: • Functions of management, e.g. planning, organising, coordinating, commanding and controlling • Importance of delegation; trust versus control 2.2.3 Leadership styles: • Features of the main leadership styles, e.g. autocratic, democratic and laissez-faire • Recommend and justify an appropriate leadership style in given circumstances 2.2.4 Trade unions: • What a trade union is and the effects of employees being union members sample questions and answers

3.2.1 The role of market research and methods used: • Market-orientated businesses (uses of market research information to a business) • Primary research and secondary research (benefits and limitations of each) • Methods of primary research, e.g. postal questionnaire, online survey, interviews, focus groups • The need for sampling • Methods of secondary research, e.g. online, accessing government sources, paying for commercial market research reports • Factors influencing the accuracy of market research data 3.2.2 Presentation and use of market research results: • Analyse market research data shown in the form of graphs, charts and diagrams; draw simple conclusions from such data *Unit 3 review sample questions and answers

4.3.1 Why quality is important and how quality production might be achieved: • What quality means and why it is important for all businesses • The concept of quality control and how businesses implement quality control • The concept of quality assurance and how this can be implemented Sample questions and answers

4.4.1 The main factors influencing the location and relocation decisions of a business: • Factors relevant to the location decision of manufacturing businesses and service businesses • Factors that a business could consider when deciding which country to locate operations in • The role of legal controls on location decisions • Recommend and justify an appropriate location for a business in given circumstances Sample questions and answers

4.2.1 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 4.2.2 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 4.2.3 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 Sample questions and answers

6.3.1 The importance of globalisation: • The concept of globalisation and the reasons for it • Opportunities and threats of globalisation for businesses • Why governments might introduce import tariffs and import quotas 6.3.2 Reasons for the importance and growth of multinational companies (MNCs): • Benefits to a business of becoming a multinational and the impact on its stakeholders • Potential benefits to a country and/or economy where a MNC is located, e.g. jobs, exports, increased choice, investment • Potential drawbacks to a country and/or economy where a MNC is located, e.g. reduced sales of local businesses, repatriation of profits 6.3.3 The impact of exchange rate changes: • Depreciation and appreciation of an exchange rate • How exchange rate changes can affect businesses as importers and exporters of products, e.g. prices, competitiveness, profitability Questions and suggested answers

The key terms associated with market failure: public good, merit good, demerit good, social benefits, external benefits, private benefits, social costs, external costs, private costs. With respect to public goods, merit and demerit goods, external costs and external benefits, abuse of monopoly power and factor immobility. Examples of market failure with respect to these areas only. The implications of misallocation of resources in respect of the over consumption of demerit goods and goods with external costs, and the under consumption of merit goods and goods with external benefits. Note: demand and supply diagrams relating to market failure are not required. Market failure review - PPT Supply and demand review - PPT Questions and suggested solutions doc

6.2.1 Environmental concerns and ethical issues as both opportunities and constraints for businesses: • How business activity can impact on the environment, e.g. global warming • The concept of externalities: possible external costs and external benefits of business decisions • Sustainable development; how business activity can contribute to this • How and why business might respond to environmental pressures and opportunities, e.g. pressure groups • The role of legal controls over business activity affecting the environment, e.g. pollution controls • Ethical issues a business might face: conflicts between profits and ethics • How business might react and respond to ethical issues, e.g. child labour “including questions and suggested answers”

PPT aligned to the CIE syllabus. Summative and formative assessments provided with suggested solutions. Topics covered included normal goods, inferior goods, complements, substitutes, Giffen goods, Veblen goods

PPT aligned to the CIE syllabus. Summative and formative assessments provided with suggested solutions. Topics covered included demand & supply, ceteris paribus, income effect, substitution effect, conspicuous demand etc

PPT aligned to the CIE syllabus. Summative and formative assessments provided with suggested solutions. Topics covered included joint supply, taxes , subsidies etc

PPT aligned to the CIE syllabus. Summative and formative assessments provided with suggested solutions. Topics covered included excess demand, excess supply, market equilibrium etc

PPT aligned to the CIE syllabus. Summative and formative assessments provided with suggested solutions. Topics covered included static analysis & comparative static analysis