Whitby Community College
Whitby Community College Faculties

Business Studies

GCSE Business Studies

Balance sheets

The following PowerPoint presentations cover each unit of the course...

Unit 1: The external environment of business

Unit 1.1  The economic problems facing business

Unit 1.2  The different sectors of business activity

Unit 1.3  Business objectives and the role of stakeholders

Unit 1.4  The community, government and business

Unit 2: Business structure and organisation

Unit 2.1  Types of business

Unit 2.4  Franchises, holding, multinationals & management buyouts

Unit 2.5  Public corporations

Unit 3: Finance

Unit 3.1  Profit

Unit 3.2  Sources of finance

Unit 3.4  Trading, profit and loss accounts

Unit 4: Production

Unit 4.1  Organisation charts

Unit 4.2  Business costs and revenues

Unit 4.3  Break even

Unit 4.4  The scale of production

Unit 4.5  Production and technology

Unit 4.6  Communications and technology

Unit 5: Marketing

Unit 5.1  Analysing the market

Unit 5.2  Market research

Unit 5.4  Price

Unit 6: People in business

Unit 6.1  Recruitment and selection

Unit 6.2  Pay and motivation

Unit 6.3  Training

Unit 6.4  Trade unions and labour law

Unit 7: Aiding and controlling business activity

Unit 7.1  Government in the mixed economy

Unit 7.2  Types of market

Unit 7.3  Location of business

Unit 7.4  The European Union

Unit 7.5  International trade