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) Quality:
o control
o assurance
o circles
o Total Quality Management (TQM)
b) Continuous improvement (Kaizen)
c) Competitive advantage from quality management
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This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
a) Strong and weak cultures
b) Classification of company cultures:
o power
o role
o task
o person
c) How corporate culture is formed
d) Difficulties in changing an established culture
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This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
a) Methods of production:
o job
o batch
o flow
o cell
b) Productivity:
o output per unit of input per time period:
factors influencing productivity
link between productivity and competitiveness
c) Efficiency:
o production at minimum average cost:
factors influencing efficiency
distinction between labour and capital intensive production
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Pearson Edexcel International A Level Business (333) 2 Investment appraisal
a) Simple payback.
b) Average (accounting) rate of return.
c) Discounted cash flow (net present value only).
d) Calculations and interpretations of figures generated by these techniques.
e) Limitations of these techniques.
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Pearson Edexcel International A Level Business (335) 2 Ratio analysis
a) Calculate:
• profitability (gross profit margin and profit for the year margin)
• liquidity (current and acid test ratios)
• gearing ratio
• return on capital employed (ROCE).
b) Interpret ratios to make business decisions.
c) The limitations of ratio analysis.
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Pearson Edexcel International A Level Business (432) 2 Assessment of a country as a market
a) Factors to consider:
• levels and growth of disposable income
• ease of doing business
• infrastructure
• political stability
• exchange rates.
b) Application of Porter’s five forces in assessing potential markets.
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This is a PPT and a learning mat
It covers the A1 of the BTEC business level 3 national
Unit 18 creative promotion
A1 The purposes of marketing communcations
Written by Sarah Hilton
For Revisionstation
This lesson is suitable for students that need extra support with the tricky topic of Profit Calculations
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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Students should be able to:
understand the benefits of a motivated workforce, such as staff retention and high productivity
understand the use of financial methods of motivation (including an understanding of the main methods of payment including salary, wage, commission and profit sharing)
understand the use of non-financial methods of motivation, including styles of management, importance of training and greater responsibility, fringe benefits
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Students should be able to:
explain the benefits of training employees for a business, including increased productivity, ability to deal with changes in technology, increased motivation, staff retention, production of high quality goods and good customer service
understand the methods of training undertaken by businesses, including induction training, on the job training and off the job training
explain the benefits of induction training
analyse the benefits and drawbacks of on the job
analyse the benefits and drawbacks of off the job training and evaluate which would be the most appropriate method for a variety of businesses
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a) Considerations for businesses:
o cultural differences
o different tastes
o language
o unintended meanings
o inappropriate/inaccurate translations
o inappropriate branding and promotion
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a student worksheet
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Edexcel A Level Business unit 4.4.3
a) Factors to consider:
o political influence
o legal control
o pressure groups
o social media
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a student worksheet
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This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
a) Design mix:
function
aesthetics
cost
b) Changes in the elements of the design mix to reflect social trends:
concern over resource depletion: designing for waste minimisation, re-use and recycling
ethical sourcing
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Pearson Edexcel International A Level Business (335) 1 Interpretation of financial statements
a) Statement of comprehensive income (profit and loss account):
• key information
• stakeholder interest.
b) Statement of financial position (balance sheet)
• key information
• stakeholder interest.
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This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
a) Calculation of:
o gross profit
o operating profit
o profit for the year (net profit)
b) Statement of comprehensive income (profit and loss
account):
o measuring profitability:
calculation of gross profit margin, operating profit
margin, and profit for the year (net profit) margin
o ways to improve profitability
c) Distinction between profit and cash
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EDEXCEL GCSE BUSINESS 1.5.5 EXTERNAL INFLUENCES (COMPLETE LESSON) 155
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
The importance of external influences on business:
possible responses by the business to changes in:
technology
legislation
the economic climate
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a) Product and market orientation
b) Primary and secondary market research data
(quantitative and qualitative) used to:
identify and anticipate customer needs and wants
quantify likely demand
gain insight into consumer behaviour
c) Limitations of market research, sample size and bias
d) Use of ICT to support market research:
websites
social networking
databases
e) Market segmentation
1.5.1
Role of an
entrepreneur
a) Creating and setting up a business
b) Running and expanding/developing a business
c) Innovation within a business (intrapreneurship)
d) Barriers to entrepreneurship
e) Anticipating risk and uncertainty in the business
environment
1.5.2
Entrepreneurial
motives and
characteristics
a) Characteristics and skills required
b) Reasons why people set up businesses:
o financial motives: profit maximisation and profit
satisficing
o non-financial motives: ethical stance, social
entrepreneurship, independence and home working
1.5.3
Business objectives
a) Survival
b) Profit maximisation
c) Other objectives:
o sales maximisation
o market share
o cost efficiency
o employee welfare
o customer satisfaction
o social objectives
1.5.4
Forms of business
a) Sole trader, partnership and private limited company
b) Franchising, social enterprise, lifestyle businesses, online
businesses
c) Growth to PLC and stock market flotation
1.5.5
Business choices
a) Opportunity cost
b) Choices and potential trade-offs
1.5.6
Moving from
entrepreneur to
leader
a) The difficulties in developing from an entrepreneur to a leader
AQA GCSE Business 3.1.6 Business Planning
This lesson includes a worksheet and a PowerPoint which covers these topics:
Students should be able to:
understand the reasons why businesses create plans
understand the main sections of a business plan
analyse the benefits and drawbacks of business planning
understand the difference between variable costs, fixed costs and total costs
understand the concept of revenue, costs, profit and loss