Key Stage 4 Overview

Through the study of GCSE Business you will explore real business issues and how businesses work.

Year 9 

• Entrepreneurs
• Setting up a business
• Project Management
• The importance of location to a business
• Creating ideas - Invention and innovation
• External influences on a business
• Marketing 

Year 10

• Dynamic nature of business
• Risk and reward
• Business enterprise
• Customer needs ·    Market research
• Market segmentation
• Competition
• Aims and objectives
• Revenue, cost and profit
• Cash-flow
• Sources of finance
• Starting a small business
• Business location
• The marketing mix
• Business planning
• Stakeholders
• Technology and business
• Legislation and business
• The economy and business
• External influences on business

Year 11

• Business growth
• Changing aims and objectives
• Globalisation
• Ethics and the environment
• Making marketing decisions
• Business operations
• Working with suppliers
• Managing quality
• The sales process
• Business calculations
• Understanding business performance
• Organisational structures
• Effective recruitment
• Effective training and development
• Motivation