Business

Course Details

Video Introduction:

What is this course about?

It is virtually certain that one day you will work in a business organisation and use business skills. Even if you become a surgeon, a professional sportsperson, a teacher or an artist you will need to be able to manage resources and perhaps, people.

You may need to promote your goods or services and you will need to understand finance. These are the major aspects you will learn about on the course. Business is the study of organisations that seek to provide us with the things we want - at a price. You will find out how they identify what we want, how they make it and how they calculate if it is worthwhile.

Course Content

Overview

In this theme, students explore the finance and operations functions and investigate external influences on business.

Students will need to build upon the knowledge, skills and understanding developed in Theme 2 in Theme 3, making connections across these two themes in Paper 2, and across Themes 1, 2, 3 and 4 in Paper 3. Teaching approaches to content must reflect this.

Students will need to apply their knowledge and understanding to both familiar and unfamiliar contexts in the assessments and demonstrate an awareness of current business issues.

Content

This theme enables students to develop an understanding of raising and managing finance and measuring business performance. The theme outlines the importance of using resources efficiently within a business to ensure that goods or services can be delivered effectively and efficiently, and to a high quality.

Students also consider the external influences that have an impact on businesses, including economic and legal factors.

Students must investigate different types and sizes of organisation in various business sectors and environments, and in local, national and global contexts.

To develop their knowledge, skills and understanding in business, students need to have acquired competence in quantitative skills that are relevant to and applied in the context of this theme.

What might this course lead on to?

A-level Business will allow you to progress onto a wide range of university degree courses, apprenticeships and careers. Courses include Accounting and Financial Management; Business and Economics; Business Management; Marketing; Product Innovation and Development and Fashion Retailing. Many former Calderstones Business students who have since graduated are now working within Accountancy, Operations or are running their own business.

Entry Requirements:

GCSE Grade ‘4’ in English Language and Maths.