Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Business

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Theme 1 - Investigating Small Business

1.1: Enterprise and Entrepreneurship

1.2: Spotting a Business Opportunity

1.3: Putting a Business Idea Into Practice

1.4: Making The Business Effective

1.5: Understanding External Influences on Business

2.1: Growing the Business

2.2: Making Marketing Decisions

2.3: Making Operational Decisions

2.4: Making Financial Decisions

2.5: Making Human Resource Decisions

1.2.1: Customer Needs
1.2.2: Market Research
1.2.3: Market Segmentation
1.2.4: The Competitive Environment

1.3.1: Business Aims and Objectives
1.3.2: Business Revenues, Costs and Profits
1.3.3: Cash and Cash-flow
1.3.4: Sources of Business Finance

1.4.1: The Options for Start-up and Small Businesses
1.4.2: Business Location
1.4.3: The Marketing Mix
1.4.4: Business Plans

2.1.1: Business Growth
2.1.2: Changes in Business Aims and Objectives
2.1.3: Business and Globalisation
2.1.4: Ethics, the Environment and Business

1.1.1: The Dynamic Nature of Business
1.1.2: Risk and Reward
1.1.3: The Role of Business Enterprise

2.2.1: Product
2.2.2: Price
2.2.3: Promotion
2.2.4: Place
2.2.5: Using the Marketing Mix to Make Business Decisions

2.4.1: Business Calculations
2.4.2: Understanding Business Performance

2.5.1: Organisational Structures
2.5.2: Effective Recruitment
2.5.3: Effective Training and Development
2.5.4: Motivation