Business

A LEVEL BUSINESS

Who is this course for?

A Level Business is for any student who is interested in the following; • Gaining a holistic understanding of business in a range of contexts. • Developing a critical understanding of organisations and their ability to meet society’s needs and wants. • Generating enterprising and creative approaches to business opportunities, problems and issues. • An awareness of the ethical dilemmas and responsibilities faced by organisations and individuals. • Acquiring a range of relevant business and generic skills, including decision making, problem solving, the challenging of assumptions and critical analysis, and applying numerical skills in a range of business contexts.

Course Details

A Level Business at Box Hill School uses the Edexcel syllabus, which is broken down into four main modules:

Theme 1 Marketing and People

- meeting customer needs, the market, marketing mix and strategy, managing people, entrepreneurs and leaders.

Theme 2 Managing business activities

- raising finance, financial planning, managing finance, resource management, external influences.

Theme 3 Business decisions and strategy

This theme develops the concepts introduced in Theme 2 – business objectives and strategy, business growth, decision-making techniques, influences on business decisions, assessing competitiveness, managing change.

Theme 4 Global business

This theme develops concepts introduced in Theme 1 – globalisation, global markets and business expansion, global marketing, global industries and companies.

Assessment

COMPONENT FORMAT DURATION WEIGHTING

Paper 1 Marketing, People and Global Businesses – 2 hours 35% Written Exam Paper 2 Business Activities, Decisions and Strategy – 2 hours 35% Written Exam Paper 3 Investigating Business in a Competitive 2 hours 30% Environment – Written Exam

Career Opportunities

A Level Business has links to Maths, Geography, Psychology as well as being a good supplement to the Natural Sciences. A Level Business develops students literary and numeracy skills, and will help students to become more commercially astute, helping them in any business environment, in particular in financial services, entrepreneurship, marketing, sales, consulting, human resources or management.