Business Management revision.
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Topics and guidance
- What is a business?
- Types of business entities
- Business objectives
- Stakeholders
- Growth and evolution
- Multinational companies
- Introduction to human resource management
- Organisational structure
- Leadership and management
- Motivation and demotivation
- Organisational culture · HL
- Communication
- Industrial and employee relations · HL
- Introduction to finance
- Sources of finance
- Costs and revenues
- Final accounts
- Profitability and liquidity ratios
- Efficiency ratio analysis · HL
- Cash flow
- Investment appraisal
- Budgets · HL
- Introduction to marketing
- Marketing planning
- Sales forecasting · HL
- Market research
- The seven Ps of the marketing mix
- International marketing · HL
- Introduction to operations management
- Operations methods
- Lean production and quality management · HL
- Location
- Break-even analysis
- Production planning · HL
- Crisis management and contingency planning · HL
- Research and development · HL
- Management information systems · HL
- SWOT analysis
- Ansoff matrix
- STEEPLE analysis
- Boston Consulting Group matrix
- Business plan
- Decision trees
- Descriptive statistics
- Circular business models
- Force field analysis · HL
- Gantt charts · HL
- Hofstede’s cultural dimensions · HL
- Porter’s generic strategies · HL
- Contribution and costing · HL
- Critical path analysis · HL
- Simple linear regression · HL
Coverage and course references
All 37 main headings across the five current units and all 15 toolkit items have original teaching notes, applied practice and labelled HL extensions. This is topic-level coverage for the course first assessed in 2024, with additional assessment practice; it is not a certified mapping of every guide statement.
Check the detailed course map and assessment references for the specification covered. Later exam sessions may use a revised syllabus. Notes and practice have not been independently verified throughout.
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