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AS Business Content

Year group: 12

When taught: September to May

AQA specification link: AQA | AS and A-level | Business | Subject content

 What are we learning?

Unit 3.1: What is business?

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

 

Unit 3.2: Managers, leadership and decision making

  • Understanding management, leadership and decision making
  • Understanding management decision making
  • Understanding the role and importance of stakeholders

 

Unit 3.3: Marketing management

  • Setting marketing objectives
  • Understanding markets and customers
  • Making marketing decisions: segmentation, targeting, positioning
  • Making marketing decisions: using the marketing mix

 

Unit 3.4: Operational management

  • Setting operational objectives
  • Analysing operational performance
  • Making operational decisions to improve performance: increasing effciency and productivity
  • Making operational decisions to improve performance: improving quality
  • Making operational decisions to improve performance: managing inventory and supply chains

 

Unit 3.5: Financial management

  • Setting financial objectives
  • Analysing financial performance
  • Making financial decisions: sources of finance
  • Making financial decisions: improving cash flow and profits

 

Unit 3.6: Human resource management

  • Setting human resource objectives
  • Analysing human resource performance
  • Making human resource decisions: improving organisational design and managing the human resource flow
  • Making human resource decisions: improving motivation and engagement
  • Making human resource decisions: improving employer employee relations

 

How will we be assessed on this topic?

  • End of topic assessments
  • Regular exam questions set as homework and in class.
  • Mock exam at the end of January
  • AS exam in May

 

What makes a strong piece of work in this topic?  What are teachers hoping to see?  

  • Well developed business knowledge
  • The ability to make clear links and connections between different business topics
  • Confident use of business terminology
  • Strong analytical skills with many strands of development
  • The ability to construct well-balanced arguments and counter-arguments in context
  • The ability to apply knowledge and understanding very effectively to given contexts in exam questions
  • The ability to use detailed, specific, factual knowledge to back up points, evaluation and judgements
  • The ability to draw valid and strong conclusions with good supporting evidence and explanation
  • The ability to confidently consider the significance of points discussed and their impact on the business in question

 

Supporting document/links:

  • Textbooks will be provided on loan to all students

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