- Enterprise and entrepreneurship
- Spotting a business opportunity
- Putting a business idea into practice
- Making the business effective
- Understanding external influences on business
Business
Key Stage 4:
GCSE Business
Examination Board: Edexcel
Business GCSE examines how businesses start and grow. Now, pupils are consumers but one day they will work in a business. GCSE Business will provide helpful knowledge and understanding to make this transition.
Business is a subject that gives pupils the opportunity to develop a wide range of transferable skills.
The aims of this qualification are to enable students to develop:
- Business will offer practical opportunities to use skills gained in maths as well writing persuasive arguments in favour of one course of action over another.
- Business will help pupils to extract salient information, whether in text or tabular and graph format, and use this information in responses to questions.
- Pupils will become skilled in making decisions, being creative, solving problems, understanding finance, analysing data and working as part of a team. Each pupil will not only gain business knowledge and understanding, but will gain the opportunity to put it into practise through a range of business activities and projects.
- Business gives pupils the opportunity to understand the world that we live in and to become more aware of global issues and events.
Course Content
1.PAPER 1: Investigating small business (50%)
2. PAPER 2: Building a business (50%)
- Growing the business
- Making marketing decisions
- Making operational decisions
- Making financial decisions
- Making human resource decisions
Extra-curricular
Students will be able to set up and run a business with other members of the group. Visits to businesses will take place as and when appropriate.
A Level Business
Examination Board: Edexcel
A Level Business looks at how businesses are created. It also examines how internal and external factors impact upon their decision-making.
The aims of this qualification are to enable students to develop:
- Business will offer opportunities to use skills gained in maths as well writing persuasive arguments in favour of one course of action over another.
- Business will help students to extract salient information, whether in text or tabular and graph format, and use this information in responses to questions.
- Students will become skilled in making decisions, being creative, solving problems, understanding finance, analysing data and working as part of a team.
- Business gives students the opportunity to understand the world that we live in and to become more aware of global issues and events.
Course Content
1.Paper 1: Marketing, people and global businesses (35%)
- Meeting customer needs
- Market, marketing mix and strategy
- Managing people
- Entrepreneurs and leaders
- Globalisation, global markets and marketing and business expansion
- Global industries and companies (multinational corporations)
2. Paper 2: Business activities, decisions and strategy (35%)
- Raising finance
- Financial planning and financial management
- Resource management
- External influences
- Business objectives and strategy
- Business growth
- Decision-making techniques
- Influences on business decisions
- Assessing competitiveness
- Managing change
3. Paper 3: Investigating business in a competitive environment (30%)
- A case study synoptic paper testing the knowledge from the entire course
Extra-curricular
Students will have opportunities to attend Business conferences and local businesses, when appropriate.