Business Studies
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