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Business - H431
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Free Business - H431 study notes for Cambridge OCR A Level students. Each chapter covers a key topic with examples and practice prompts you can continue inside the thinka app.
Introduction to Business
Enterprise
Business sectors
Types of business
Franchises and franchisees
Business functions
Business size and growth
External growth
Business objectives and strategy
Different stakeholder and business objectives
Stakeholders
Mission statement
Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
Strategy and implementation
Business plan
Risk and uncertainty
Opportunity cost
Contingency planning and crisis management
Models of strategic choice
Measures of Performance: financial and nonfinancial
Forecasting
Decision making
Decision trees
Ansoff’s matrix
Conflicts in business decision making
External influences
The market, market size and growth
Demand and supply
Market forces
Physical and nonphysical markets
Competition
Market dominance
Global context
International trade and free trade
The European Union
Emerging markets and the global environment
Political factors
Economic factors
Social factors
Technological factors
The digital revolution
Ethical factors
Legal factors
Environmental factors
External factors and influences
Change
Causes and effect of change
Managing change
Accounting and finance within a business environment
Accounting and finance objectives
Sources of finance
Accounting concepts
Management accounting
Costs, revenue and profit
Break-even analysis
Investment appraisal
Budgets and variances
Cash-flow
Working capital
Financial accounting
Income statements
Statement of financial position
Ratio analysis
Accounting and finance within the external environment
The finance strategy
Accounting and finance within the external environment
External influences on accounting and finance
Human resource management within a business environment
Human resource management objectives
Organisation
Communication
The workforce
Workforce planning
Recruitment
Selection
Training
Appraisal and workforce performance
Redundancy and dismissal
Human resources within the external environment
The human resources strategy
The finance strategy
The strategy
Management
Functions of management
Leadership
Motivation
Employer/employee relations
Human resources within the external environment
The human resources strategy
Marketing within a business environment
Marketing objectives
Marketing resources
Customer needs
Identifying customer needs
Anticipating consumer needs
Customers and consumers
The product life cycle
The marketing strategy
The marketing mix
Product
Price
Place
Promotion
Service marketing
Marketing within the external environment
The marketing strategy
Human resources within the external environment
External influences on human resource management
Operations management within a business environment
Operations management objectives
Added value
Operations management within the external environment
The operations strategy
The human resources strategy
The strategy
The production process
Innovation, research and development
Methods of production
Services
Project management
Productive efficiency
Productivity
Economies and diseconomies of scale
Capacity utilisation and management
Stock control
Lean production
Technology
Productive quality (fit for purpose)
Internal quality standards
External quality standards
Services
Location and logistics
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