Business Studies

AS/A2 Economics & Business

The following PowerPoint presentations cover units of the course...

Module 1.1 – What do people want Why be in business? Are customers demanding? Why do people work? What does government want? Who cares?

Module 1.2 – What does business do? What makes a market? What adds value? What makes a product? How is profit made? How is profit measured?

Module 2.1 – What makes firms effective? What is culture? How are people managed? Can cost be cut? What is efficiency? How is effectiveness analysed?

Module 2.2 – Do markets work? How do markets work? Where does the power lie? Profit or pollution? Are markets equitable? Is the government always right?

Module 3.1 – What are the challenges? How do markets change? Rivalry or collaboration? Will total output change? Unemployment or inflation? Why trade?

Module 3.2 – Which way forward? Why are business plans important? What makes markets grow? What makes an economy grow? Can we control the economy? What should governments spend?

Module 4.2 – How competitive? An enterprising environment? Power or competitiveness? Is the market competitive? Is power contrlled? Whose advantage?

Option 2 – Can there be certainty? Opportunities or constraints? Going for growth? Boom or bust? Retreat or recovery? Will there be certainty?

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