Business study guides

A complete overview of Edexcel A-Level Business Theme 1.1 Meeting customer needs, covering markets and research, segmentation, targeting and positioning, the marketing and design mix, demand and supply, and price and income elasticity.

A complete overview of Edexcel A-Level Business Theme 1.2 The market, covering the factors that shift demand and supply, price determination and equilibrium, price and income elasticity of demand, and the competitive environment.

A complete overview of Edexcel A-Level Business Theme 1.3 Marketing mix and strategy, covering product and the product life cycle, pricing strategies, promotion and branding, distribution, and building an integrated marketing strategy.

A complete overview of Edexcel A-Level Business Theme 1.4 Managing people, covering approaches to staffing and flexible workforces, recruitment, selection and training, organisational design, and motivation in theory and practice.

A complete overview of Edexcel A-Level Business Theme 1.5 Entrepreneurs and leaders, covering the role and motives of entrepreneurs, business objectives, the forms of business and liability, business choices and the move from entrepreneur to leader.

A complete overview of Edexcel A-Level Business Theme 2.1 Raising finance, covering internal and external sources and methods of finance, liability and finance, business plans and cash-flow forecasting, and sales, revenue and costs.

A complete overview of Edexcel A-Level Business Theme 2.2 Financial planning, covering sales forecasting, break-even and contribution, budgets and variance analysis, and cash flow and working capital.

A complete overview of Edexcel A-Level Business Theme 2.3 Managing finance, covering profit and profitability, liquidity and the statement of financial position, business failure, and financial objectives and decision-making.

A complete overview of Edexcel A-Level Business Theme 2.4 Resource management, covering production methods, productivity and efficiency, capacity utilisation, stock control and just-in-time, and quality management.

A complete overview of Edexcel A-Level Business Theme 2.5 External influences, covering external economic influences, legislation and regulation, the competitive environment and market conditions, and responding to external change with PESTLE.

A complete overview of Edexcel A-Level Business Theme 3.1 Business objectives and strategy, covering the hierarchy of mission and objectives, SWOT analysis, theories of corporate strategy from Porter and Ansoff, and external influences including Porter's five forces.

A complete overview of Edexcel A-Level Business Theme 3.2 Business growth, covering reasons for growth and economies of scale, mergers and takeovers and types of integration, organic and inorganic growth, and reasons for staying small.

A complete overview of Edexcel A-Level Business Theme 3.3 Decision-making techniques, covering investment appraisal, decision trees, critical path analysis, and the use of quantitative and qualitative data in decision-making.

A complete overview of Edexcel A-Level Business Theme 3.4 Influences on business decisions, covering corporate influences and short-termism, corporate culture, stakeholders versus shareholders, and business ethics and CSR.

A complete overview of Edexcel A-Level Business Theme 3.5 Assessing competitiveness, covering interpreting financial statements, ratio analysis, assessing internal competitiveness with HR data, and assessing external competitiveness against rivals.

A complete overview of Edexcel A-Level Business Theme 3.6 Managing change, covering the causes and types of change, managing change and the learning organisation, the key factors in successful change, and scenario and contingency planning.

A complete overview of Edexcel A-Level Business Theme 4.1 Globalisation, covering growing economies and trade, the factors contributing to globalisation, protectionism and trading blocs, and international trade and business growth.

A complete overview of Edexcel A-Level Business Theme 4.2 Global markets and business expansion, covering the reasons for global expansion, assessing a country as a market, assessing a country as a production location, and global mergers and joint ventures.

A complete overview of Edexcel A-Level Business Theme 4.3 Global marketing, covering global marketing strategy and glocalisation, the global marketing mix, cultural and social factors, and global niche markets.

A complete overview of Edexcel A-Level Business Theme 4.4 Global industries and multinationals, covering the impact of MNCs on host countries, the ethics of multinationals, the control of multinationals, and global competitiveness.