GCSE Business Course - AQA
The new specification will give you the opportunity to explore real business issues and how businesses work. The clear and straightforward structure supports teaching and learning.
You will consider the practical application of business concepts and explore theories in the most relevant way, through the context of events in the business and economic world.
The knowledge and skills gained from this specification will provide your students with a firm foundation for further study.
Business Studies GCSE - AQA
Aims and Learning Outcomes
The GCSE Business course should encourage candidates to:
Actively engage in the study of business to develop as effective and independent learners and as critical and reflective thinkers with enquiring minds.
Use an enquiring, critical approach to distinguish between fact and opinion, build arguments and make informed judgments.
Develop and apply their knowledge, understanding and skills to contemporary issues in a range of local, national and global contexts.
Appreciate the range of perspectives of different stakeholders in relation to business and economic activities.
Consider the extent to which business and economic activity can be ethical and sustainable.
Assessment
Trips
Land Rover Solihull
A fun packed day touring the factory, an off road driving experience in a £100,000 Land rover sport and an operations management timed challenge. This takes place in July each year.
Operations management is studied in preparation for our trip to Land Rover in July.
There will also be a trip to the All England Lawn Tennis Club in the spring term of year 10 to study the marketing of the tennis Museum and to look around the courts, press room and player’s lounge.
Subject Content
Year 10
3.1 Business in the real world
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3.1.1 The purpose and nature of businesses
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Topic 1.1 p 3-9
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1.2 Business Ownership
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Topic 1.2 p10-19
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1.3 Setting Business Aims and Objectives
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Topic 1.3 p 20-29
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1.4 Stakeholders
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Topic 1.4 p 30-34
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1.5 Business Location
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Topic 1.5 p 35-40
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1.6 Business Planning
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Topic 1.6 p 41-45
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1.7 Expanding a Business
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Topic 1.7 p 46-53
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Chapter Review
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P54-56
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3.2 Influences on business
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3.2.1 Technology
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Topic 2.1 p 58-67
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2.2 Ethical and environmental considerations
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Topic 2.2 p 68-81
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2.3 The economic Climate of business
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Topic 2.3 p 82-93
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2.4 Globalisation
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Topic 2.4 p 94-106
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2.5 Legislation
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Topic 2.5 p 107-116
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2.6 The competitive Environment
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Topic 2.6 p 117-127
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Chapter Review
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P127-129
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3.3 Business operations
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3.3.1 Production Processes
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Topic 3.1 p 132-139
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3.2 The role of procurement
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Topic 3.2 p140-147
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3.3 The economic Climate of business
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Topic 3.3 p 82-93
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3.4 The concept of quality
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Topic 3.4 p 148-152
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3.5 Good customer service
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Topic 3.5 p 153-160
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Chapter Review
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P160-162
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Year 11
3.4 Human resources
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3. 4.1 Organisational structures
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Topic 4.1 p 164-174
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4.2 Recruitment and selection of employees
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Topic 4.2 p175-188
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4.3 Motivating employees
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Topic 4.3 p 189-197
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4.4 Training
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Topic 4.4 p 198 -206
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Chapter Review
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P207-209
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3.5 Marketing
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3.5.1 Identifying and understanding Customers
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Topic 5.1 p 212-217
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5.2 Segmentation
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Topic 5.2 p 218-223
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5.3 The purpose and methods of market research
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Topic 5.3 p 224-233
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5.4 Elements of the marketing mix
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Topic 5.4 p 234-238
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5.5 Using the marketing mix: product and pricing
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Topic 5.5 p 239-250
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5.6 promotion and distribution
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Topic 5.6 p 251-260
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Chapter Review
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P260-262
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3.6 Finance
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3.6.1 Sources of finance
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Topic 6.1 p 264-275
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6.2 Cash Flow
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Topic 6.2 p 276-285
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6.3 Financial terms and calculations
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Topic 6.3 p 286-297
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6.4 Analysing the financial performance of a business
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Topic 6.4 p 298-310
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Chapter Review
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P 310-313
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Authors: Malcolm Surridge and Andrew Gillespie
Publisher: Hodder Education
ISBN-13: 9781471899386
Price: £21.99
Publication date: May 2017
Digital version available: July 2017
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