Sarah Hilton has been a business examiner for over 20 years and a business teacher for longer. She is now a teacher trainer, business teacher and qualification developer. She runs the website revisionstation which provides smashing business teaching resources at budget prices.
Sarah Hilton has been a business examiner for over 20 years and a business teacher for longer. She is now a teacher trainer, business teacher and qualification developer. She runs the website revisionstation which provides smashing business teaching resources at budget prices.
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
a) Corporate timescales: short-termism versus
long-termism
b) Evidence-based versus subjective decision making
Written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation
EDEXCEL GCSE BUSINESS 1.1.3 THE ROLE OF BUSINESS ENTERPRISE (COMPLETE LESSON) 113
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
The role of business enterprise and the purpose of business activity:
•To produce goods or services
•To meet customer needs
•To add value: convenience, branding, quality, design, unique selling points
The role of entrepreneurship:
•An entrepreneur: organises resources, makes business decisions, takes risks
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EDEXCEL GCSE BUSINESS 2.5.3 EFFECTIVE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT (COMPLETE LESSON) 253
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
How businesses train and develop employees:
Different ways of training and developing employees: formal and informal training, self-learning, ongoing training for all employees, use of target setting and performance reviews
Why businesses train and develop employees:
The link between training, motivation and retention
Retraining to use new technology
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EDEXCEL GCSE BUSINESS 2.4.1 BUSINESS CALCULATIONS (COMPLETE LESSON) 241
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
The concept and calculation of:
Gross profit
Net profit
Calculation and interpretation of:
Gross profit margin
Net profit margin
Average rate of return
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EDEXCEL GCSE BUSINESS 2.5.1 ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURES (COMPLETE LESSON) 251
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
Different organisational structures and when each are appropriate:
Hierarchical and flat
Centralised and decentralised
The importance of effective communication:
The impact of insufficient or excessive communication on efficiency and motivation
Barriers to effective communication
Different ways of working:
Part time, full time and flexible hours
Permanent, temporary, and freelance contracts
The impact of technology on ways of working:
efficiency
remote working
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This lesson is suitable for students that need extra support with the tricky topic of Price Elasticity of Demand (PED
It is written for students studying Edexcel A level Business but would also suit students on the Pearson International Edexcel A level business course.
This includes a worksheet and a separate answer booklet in Word and PDF format
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EDEXCEL GCSE BUSINESS 2.1.3 BUSINESS AND GLOBALISATION (COMPLETE LESSON) 213
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
The impact of globalisation on businesses:
•Imports: competition from overseas, buying from overseas
•Exports: selling to overseas markets
•Changing business locations
•Multinationals
Barriers to international trade:
•tariffs
•trade blocs
How businesses compete internationally:
•The use of the Internet and e-commerce
•Changing the marketing mix to compete internationally
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EDEXCEL GCSE BUSINESS 2.1.1 BUSINESS GROWTH (COMPLETE LESSON) 211
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
Methods of business growth and their impact:
Internal (organic) growth: new products (innovation, research and development), new markets (through changing the marketing mix or taking advantage of technology and/or expanding overseas)
External (inorganic) growth: merger, takeover
The types of business ownership for growing businesses:
Public limited company (plc)
Sources of finance for growing and established businesses:
Internal sources: retained profit, selling assets
External sources: loan capital, share capital including stock market flotation (public limited companies)
Written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation
EDEXCEL GCSE BUSINESS 2.2.1 PRODUCT (COMPLETE LESSON) 221
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
The design mix:
Function, aesthetics, cost
The product life cycle:
The phases of the product life cycle
Extension strategies
The importance to a business of differentiating a product/service
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EDEXCEL GCSE BUSINESS 2.2.4 PLACE (COMPLETE LESSON) 224
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
Place:
Methods of distribution:
retailers and e-tailers (e-commerce)
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EDEXCEL GCSE BUSINESS 2.3.1 BUSINESS OPERATIONS (COMPLETE LESSON) 231
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
The purpose of business operations:
•To produce goods
•To provide services
Production processes:
•Different types:
job
batch
flow
•The impact of different types of production processes: keeping productivity up and costs down and allow for competitive prices
Impacts of technology on production:
•Balancing cost, productivity, quality and flexibility
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EDEXCEL GCSE BUSINESS 2.2.5 USING THE MARKETING MIX (COMPLETE LESSON) 225
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
How each element of the marketing mix can influence other elements
Using the marketing mix to build competitive advantage
How an integrated marketing mix can influence competitive advantage
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EDEXCEL GCSE BUSINESS 2.3.3 MANAGING QUALITY (COMPLETE LESSON) 233
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
The concept of quality and its importance in:
•The production of goods and the provision of services: quality control and quality assurance
•Allowing a business to control costs and gain a competitive advantage
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EDEXCEL GCSE BUSINESS 2.3.4 THE SALES PROCESS (COMPLETE LESSON) 234
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
The sales process:
Product knowledge, speed and efficiency of service, customer engagement, responses to customer feedback, post-sales service
The importance to businesses of providing good customer service
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EDEXCEL GCSE BUSINESS 2.5.2 EFFECTIVE RECRUITMENT (COMPLETE LESSON) 252
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
Different job roles and responsibilities:
Key job roles and their responsibilities: directors, senior managers, supervisors/team leaders, operational and support staff
How businesses recruit people:
Documents: person specification and job description, application form, CV
Recruitment methods used to meet different business needs
(Internal and external recruitment)
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Pearson Edexcel International A level Business Unit 2.3.5 External Influences (3 complete lessons)
1 Economic influences
a) The effect on businesses of, and how they can best respond to, changes in:
• the rate of inflation
• exchange rates (appreciation, depreciation)
• interest rates
• taxation and government spending
• the business cycle.
2 Legislation
a) The effects on businesses of:
• consumer protection
• employee protection
• environmental protection
• competition policy
• health and safety
• intellectual property rights (copyright, patents and trademarks).
3 The competitive environment
a) The effects on businesses of competition in terms of competitor:
• numbers
• size
• behaviour.
b) Ways for a small business to compete in a competitive market.
a) Factors to consider:
o levels and growth of disposable income
o ease of doing business
o infrastructure
o political stability
o exchange rate
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a student worksheet
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This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
a) Factors leading to a change in demand:
changes in the prices of substitutes and complementary goods
changes in consumer incomes
fashions, tastes and preferences
advertising and branding
demographics
external shocks
seasonality
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a) Expansion of trading blocs:
o EU and the single market
o ASEAN
o NAFTA (ON THE SYLLABUS but no longer in existence)
b) Impact on businesses of trading blocs
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a student worksheet
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This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
a) Factors leading to a change in supply:
changes in the costs of production
introduction of new technology
indirect taxes
government subsidies
external shocks
Written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation