| Year 12 Business A Level
Term 1 Topics & Content:
What is business ? Understanding the nature and purpose of business, Understanding different business forms, Understanding that businesses operate within an external environment.
Managers, leadership and decision making – Understanding management, leadership and decision making. Understanding management decision making. Understanding the role and importance of stakeholders.
Term 2 Topics & Content:
Decision making to improve marketing performance – setting marketing objectives, understanding markets and customers, segmentation, targeting and positioning, using the marketing mix.
Decision making to improve operational performance – setting operational objectives, analysing operational performance, increasing efficiency and productivity, improving quality, managing inventory and supply chains.
Decision making to improve financial performance – setting financial objectives, analysing financial performance, sources of finance, improving cash flow and profits.
Term 3 Topics & Content:
Decision making to improve financial performance – setting human resource objectives, analysing human resource performance, improving organisational design and human resource flow, improving motivation and engagement, improving employer-employee relations.
Year 12 Economics:
Term 1
1 Economic methodology and the economic problem
2 Price determination in a competitive market
3 Production, costs and revenue
Term 2
4 Competitive and concentrated markets
5 The market mechanism, market failure and government intervention in markets The national economy in a global context
6 The measurement of macroeconomic performance
Term 3
7 How the macroeconomy works : the circular flow of income, AD/AS analysis, and related concepts
8 Economic performance
Cambridge Technicals
Year 12
Terms 1- 3 Unit 1 The Business Environment
Terms 1-3 Unit 5 Marketing and Market Research
Terms 1-3 Unit 6 Marketing Strategy ( Diploma only)
Term 3
Unit 4 Customers and Communication
Unit 7 Marketing Campaign ( Diploma only) |
Year 13 Business A Level
Term 1 Topics & Content:
Analysing the strategic position of a business.
Swot Analysis
Financial analysis
Choosing Strategic direction
Term 2 Topics & Content:
Strategic Methods – how to pursue strategies.
Growth and Retrenchment
Innovation
Targeting overseas markets.
Term 3 Topics & Content:
Managing Strategic change
Managerial culture
Strategic implementation
Problems with strategy.
Year 13 Economics:
Term 1
1 Economic methodology and the economic problem
2 Individual economic decision making
3 Price determination in a competitive market
4 Production, costs and revenue
5 Perfect competition, imperfectly competitive markets and monopoly
Term 2
6 The labour market
7 The distribution of income and wealth: poverty and inequality
8 The market mechanism, market failure and government intervention in markets The national and international economy
9 The measurement of macroeconomic performance
10 How the macroeconomy works : the circular flow of income, AD/AS analysis, and related concepts
11 Economic performance
Term 3
12 Financial markets and monetary policy
13 Fiscal policy and supply-side policies
14 The international economy
Cambridge Technicals
Year 13
Term 1 Unit 16 Principles of Project Management
Unit 2 Working in Business
Term 2
Unit 3 Business Decisions ( Diploma only)
Unit 15 Change Management ( Diploma only)
Term 3
Unit 22 Delivering a Business Project ( Diploma only) |
