BUSINESS A LEVEL AND AS LEVEL

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Business

Business is a subject for our budding entrepreneurs, who are able to delve into topics relevant to today’s society, including the business environment and marketing operations. Students learn to develop a critical understanding of organisations, explore business behaviour from a range of perspectives and acquire knowledge about how businesses are currently structured and how they run. In addition, studying Business helps to hone skills, such as conducting research, problem-solving and decision-making.

Course outline

Theme 1 - Marketing and people

Meeting customer needs
The market
Marketing mix and strategy
Managing people
Entrepreneurs and leaders

Theme 2 - Managing business activities

Raising finance
Financial planning
Managing finance
Resource management
External influences

Theme 3 - Business decisions and strategy

Business objectives and strategy
Business growth
Decision-making techniques
Influences on business decisions
Accessing competitiveness
Managing change

Theme 4 - Global business

Globalisation
Global markets and business expansion
Global marketing
Global industries and companies (multinational corporations)

Assesment

AS level

Paper 1: Marketing and people

Assessment of content from Themes 1 and 2
80 marks
1 hour 30 minutes written paper
50% of total AS level

Paper 2: Managing business activities

Assessment of content from Themes 1 and 2
80 marks
1 hour 30 minutes written paper
50% of total AS level

A level

Paper 1: Marketing, people and global business

Assessment of content from Themes 1 and 4
100 marks
2 hours written paper
35% of total A level

Paper 2: Business activities, decisions and strategy

Assessment of content from Themes 2 and 3
100 marks
2 hours written paper
35% of total A level

Paper 3: Investigating business in a competitive environment

Assessment of content across all four themes
100 marks
2 hours written paper
30% of total A level

Specification

Teachers will choose the examination board for students joining in Year 12 based on their expertise and specialist knowledge. For Year 13 and retake students, teachers will continue students’ studies with AQA, Edexcel/Pearson, OCR or WJEC/Eduqas. Please note that we do not offer CIE but can more than map to one of the boards listed.

Teachers

David Shreir
BSc (UCL), MSc (Royal Holloway), PGCE (Institute of Education, London)

Jason Stokes
BEcon (Sydney), MCommerce (Sydney), MTeaching (Sydney), QTLS

Leila Mughal
BA (Middlesex), PGCE (Institute of Education, London)

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