AQA A-level Business (7132)

What is included

What this course covers

• Topic 1 — What is business?

  • 1.1 – Understanding the nature and purpose of business
  • 1.2 – Understanding different business forms
  • 1.3 – Understanding that businesses operate within an external environment

• Topic 2 — Managers, leadership and decision making

  • 2.1 – Understanding management, leadership and decision making
  • 2.2 – Understanding management decision making
  • 2.3 – Understanding the role and importance of stakeholders

• Topic 3 — Marketing management

  • 3.1 – Setting marketing objectives
  • 3.2 – Understanding markets and customers
  • 3.3 – Segmentation, targeting, positioning
  • 3.4 – Using the marketing mix

• Topic 4 — Operational management

  • 4.1 – Setting operational objectives
  • 4.2 – Analysing operational performance
  • 4.3 – Increasing efficiency and productivity
  • 4.4 – Improving quality
  • 4.5 – Managing inventory and supply chains

• Topic 5 — Financial management

  • 5.1 – Setting financial objectives
  • 5.2 – Analysing financial performance
  • 5.3 – Sources of finance
  • 5.4 – Improving cash flow and profits

• Topic 6 — Human resource management

  • 6.1 – Setting human resource objectives
  • 6.2 – Analysing human resource performance
  • 6.3 – Improving organisational design and managing the human resource flow
  • 6.4 – Improving motivation and engagement
  • 6.5 – Improving employer-employee relations

• Topic 7 — Analysing the strategic position of a business

  • 7.1 – Mission, corporate objectives, functional objectives and strategy
  • 7.2 – Financial ratio analysis
  • 7.3 – Overall performance
  • 7.4 – Political and legal change
  • 7.5 – Economic change
  • 7.6 – Social and technological
  • 7.7 – The competitive environment
  • 7.8 – Analysing strategic options: investment appraisal

• Topic 8 — Choosing strategic direction

  • 8.1 – Strategic direction: choosing which markets to compete in and what products to offer
  • 8.2 – Strategic positioning: choosing how to compete

• Topic 9 — Strategic methods: how to pursue strategies

  • 9.1 – Assessing a change in scale
  • 9.2 – Assessing innovation
  • 9.3 – Assessing globalisation and internationalisation
  • 9.4 – Assessing greater use of digital technology

• Topic 10 — Managing strategic change

  • 10.1 – Managing change
  • 10.2 – Managing organisational culture
  • 10.3 – Managing strategic implementation
  • 10.4 – Problems with strategy and why strategies fail

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