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A-level Business Studies

A-Level Business will help to develop a range of important and transferable skills such as presenting arguments and making recommendations on the basis of the available evidence, and problem-solving. Whilst learning online, you can utilise our unlimited tutor support as you work towards a fulfilling career in the world of business. If you have ambitions one day of running your own company, this course can be the ideal launch pad.

 

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What you will learn

Below is an outline of the course material you will study:

Unit 1: What is Business?

  • Different types of business
  • Mission statements
  • Business and the external environment
  • Environmental issues and fair trade
  • Cost and demand

 

Unit 2: Managers, Leadership and Decision Making

  • Difference between managers and leaders
  • Types of management and leadership styles
  • Influences on the styles of management and leaders
  • The types of decisions a business makes
  • Stakeholders

 

Unit 3: Decision Making to Improve Marketing Performance

  • The purpose of marketing
  • Marketing objectives
  • Ethical and environmental marketing object objectives
  • Types of market research
  • Qualitative market research
  • Quantitative market research
  • Market mapping
  • Understanding extrapolation
  • Interpretation of price and income elasticities of demand
  • Segmentation, targeting and positioning
  • The marketing mix
  • The promotional mix
  • The product life cycle
  • Types of distribution channel
  • Digital marketing and E-commerce

 

Unit 4: Decision Making to Improve Operational Performance

  • Setting operational objectives
  • Analysing operational performance
  • Increasing efficiency and productivity
  • Managing quality
  • Managing inventory and supply chains

 

Unit 5: Decision Making to Improve Financial Performance

  • Types of financial objective
  • Return on investment
  • The distinction between cash flow and profit
  • Gross profit, operating profit, and profit for the year
  • Types of budget
  • Value of budgeting
  • How to analyse profitability
  • Different sources of finance
  • Improving cash flow and profits

 

Unit 6: Decision Making to Improve Human Resource Performance

  • Human resource objectives
  • Maintaining good employer and employee relations
  • Internal and external influences on HR objectives and decisions
  • Organisational structures and influences
  • Recruitment
  • Human resource / workforce planning
  • Importance of effective recruitment and selection
  • Training
  • Redeployment
  • Redundancy
  • Theories of motivation
  • Methods of employee representation

 

Unit 7: Analysing the Strategic Position of a Business

  • Mission corporate objectives and strategy
  • The distinction between strategy and tactics
  • SWOT Analyses
  • The value of a SWOT Analysis
  • Analysing balance sheets
  • Classifying business expenditure
  • Profitability and performance ratios
  • Financial performance indicators
  • Political and legal change
  • Economic change and Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
  • Social and technological change
  • Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reporting
  • Competitive environment

 

Unit 8: Choosing Strategic Direction

  • The factors influencing which markets to compete in and which products to offer
  • Ansoff’s Matrix
  • Competitive advantage

 

Unit 9: Strategic Methods: How to Pursue Strategies

  • The differences between organic and external growth
  • Issues involved with managing growth
  • The experience curve
  • Greiner’s Model of Growth
  • Assessing innovation
  • Assessing internationalisation
  • The pressures to adopt digital technology
  • Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

 

Unit 10: Managing Strategic Change

  • Causes of and pressures for change
  • The value of change
  • The value of a flexible organisation
  • Organic structures vs mechanistic structures
  • Managing information and knowledge
  • Kotter and Schlesinger’s Four Reasons for Resistance to Change
  • The importance of organisational culture
  • The influences on organisational culture
  • Managing strategic implementation
  • Planned vs emergent strategy
  • The value of strategic planning
  • The value of contingency planning

 

Unit 11: Preparing for the examinations

  • Paper 1
  • Paper 2
  • Paper 3

 

Course Outcome

Upon successful completion of this home learning course, you will receive an A-level in Business (7132), issued by AQA, the leading awarding body. Your certificate is identical to that issued to students at any other school, college or university.

A qualification from Oxbridge is the same as any other educational institution. Feel confident about your post-studying options after achieving a highly valued A-level.  

 

Progression Routes

Studying A-Level Business lets students venture in management, finance, economics, marketing, and entrepreneurship. You will gain a deeper understanding of the global state of business, and you will also be adequately prepped for further education.

 

Examinations and Assessments

You’ll be required to complete three standard A-level written exams:

  • Paper 1: 2 hours, 33.3% of A-level, 100 marks.
  • Paper 2: 2 hours, 33.3% of A-level, 100 marks.
  • Paper 3: 2 hours, 33.3% of A-level, 100 marks.

These exams contain a mixture of short and long answer questions and extended response questions.

 

Entry Requirements

A general education up to GCSE level or equivalent is recommended for this Business A-levels course. This is an online course, so you will also need access to the Internet. This course is a difficulty level three: the equivalent difficulty of an A-level or BTEC, usually suitable for most learners of all ages.

 

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