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.
EDEXCEL GCSE BUSINESS 2.1.2 CHANGES IN BUSINESS AIMS AND OBJECTIVES (COMPLETE LESSON) 212
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
Why business aims and objectives change as businesses evolve:
•In response to: market conditions, technology, performance, legislation, internal reasons
How business aims and objectives change as businesses evolve:
•Focus on survival or growth
•Entering or exiting markets
•Growing or reducing the workforce
•Increasing or decreasing product range
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EDEXCEL GCSE BUSINESS 1.2.2 MARKET RESEARCH (COMPLETE LESSON) 122
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
The purpose of market research:
To identify and understand customer needs
To identify gaps in the market
To reduce risk
To inform business decisions
Methods of market research:
Primary research: survey, questionnaire, focus group, observation
Secondary research: internet, market reports, government reports
The use of data in market research:
Qualitative and quantitative data
The role of social media in collecting market research data
The importance of the reliability of market research data
Written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
a) Calculation of sales volume and sales revenue
b) Calculation of fixed and variable costs
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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 2.1.3 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)
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EDEXCEL GCSE BUSINESS 2.1.4 ETHICS THE ENVIRONMENT AND BUSINESS (COMPLETE LESSON) 214
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
The impact of ethical and environmental considerations on businesses:
•How ethical considerations influence business activity: possible trade-offs between ethics and profit
•How environmental considerations influence business activity: possible trade-offs between the environment, sustainability and profit
•The potential impact of pressure group activity on the marketing mix
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EDEXCEL GCSE BUSINESS 2.2.3 PROMOTION (COMPLETE LESSON) 223
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
Promotion:
Appropriate promotion strategies for different market segments:
advertising
sponsorship
product trials
special offers
branding
The use of technology in promotion:
targeted advertising online,
viral advertising via social media,
e-newsletters
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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 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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This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
The concept and calculation of:
Revenue
Fixed and variable costs
Total costs
Profit and loss
Interest
Break even level of output
Margin of safety
Interpretation of break even diagrams:
The impact of changes in revenue and costs
Break even level of output
Margin of safety
Profit and loss
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EDEXCEL GCSE BUSINESS 1.4.1 OPTIONS FOR START UP AND SMALL BUSINESS (COMPLETE LESSON) 141
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
The concept of limited liability:
● limited and unlimited liability
● the implications for the business owner(s) of limited and unlimited liability.
The types of business ownership for start-ups:
● sole trader, partnership, private limited company
● the advantages and disadvantages of each type of business ownership.
The option of starting up and running a franchise operation:
● the advantages and disadvantages of franchising.
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This lesson covers:
The 4 Ps of marketing and their importance
Product
Design, invention, innovation
Product stages of the lifecycle
Introduction, growth, maturity, decline
Pricing methods
Skimming, cost-plus, penetration, competitor, promotional
Promotion – point of sale
Price reductions, loss leaders, competitions, free samples
Promotion - advertising
Social media, websites, print media, television, radio
Place – distribution of products and services
Digital and physical distribution channels
How the 4 Ps of the marketing mix work together
The use of the marketing mix to inform and implement business decisions
Interpretation of market data
Changes in demand
target market and market share
changes in product
effects of promotion
This lesson is written by Sarah Hilton at Revisionstation
AS(7131) A-level (7132) Specifications For teaching from September 2023 onwards For as exams in May/June 2024 onwards For a-level exams in May/June 2025 onwards Version 2.0
This lesson covers:
How to assess the financial performance of a business using balance sheets, income statements
financial ratios
profitability (return on capital employed)
liquidity (current ratio)
gearing
Efficiency ratios:
payables days
receivables days
inventory turnover
The value of financial ratios when assessing performance
Data may be analysed over time or in comparison with other businesses.
This lesson was written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation
AS(7131) A-level (7132) Specifications For teaching from September 2023 onwards For as exams in May/June 2024 onwards For a-level exams in May/June 2025 onwards Version 2.0
This lesson covers:
The impact of changes in the political and legal environment on strategic and functional decision making:
The political and legal environment should include a broad understanding of the scope and effects of law related to competition, the labour market and environmental legislation
The impact of government policy related to enterprise, the role of regulators, infrastructure, the environment and international trade
This was written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation
AS(7131) A-level (7132) Specifications For teaching from September 2023 onwards For as exams in May/June 2024 onwards For a-level exams in May/June 2025 onwards Version 2.0
This lesson covers:
The impact of the social and technological environment on strategic and functional decision making
Social changes to include demographic changes and population movements such as:
migration
changes in consumer lifestyle and buying behaviour
the growth of online businesses
The social environment to include Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and:
the reasons for and against (CSR)
the difference between the stakeholder v shareholder concept
Carroll’s Corporate Social Responsibility pyramid
Technological change should include the impact of technological change on functional areas and strategy
The pressures for socially responsible behaviour
This lesson was written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation
AS(7131) A-level (7132) Specifications For teaching from September 2023 onwards For as exams in May/June 2024 onwards For a-level exams in May/June 2025 onwards Version 2.0
This lesson covers:
Porter’s five forces, how and why these might change, and the implications of these forces for strategic and functional decision making and profits
An understanding of the five forces to include:
entry threat (barriers to entry)
buyer power
supplier power
rivalry
substitute threat
This lesson was written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation
AS(7131) A-level (7132) Specifications For teaching from September 2023 onwards For as exams in May/June 2024 onwards For a-level exams in May/June 2025 onwards Version 2.0
This lesson covers:
The value of setting financial objectives to include:
The concept of a return on investment
Revenue, costs and profit objectives
Cash flow objectives
The distinction between cash flow and profit
The distinction between gross profit, operating profit and profit for the year
This lesson was written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation
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 2.5.4 MOTIVATION (COMPLETE LESSON) 254
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
The importance of motivation in the workplace:
Attracting employees, retaining employees, productivity
How businesses motivate employees:
Financial methods: remuneration, bonus, commission, promotion, fringe benefits
Non-financial methods: job rotation, job enrichment, autonomy
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