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  • GCSE Business & Economics
    • Unit 1 Introduction to Small Business >
      • Spotting a Business Opportunity
      • Showing Enterprise
      • Putting a Business Idea into Practice
      • Making the Start Up Effective
      • The Economic Context
    • Unit 2 Investigating a Small Business
    • Unit 5 Economic Understanding
  • AS Level Business Studies
    • Unit 1 Planning and Financing a Business >
      • Enterprise
      • Generating and Protecting Business Ideas
      • Transforming Resources Into Goods and Services
      • Developing Business Plans
      • Market Research
      • Understanding Markets
      • Business Legal Structure
      • Raising Finance
      • Locating the Business
      • Employing People
      • Calculating Costs, Revenue and Profits
      • Break Even Analysis
      • Cash Flow Forecasting
      • Setting Budgets
      • Assessing Business Start Ups
      • AQA Previous Exam Papers
    • Unit 2 Managing a Business >
      • Using Budgets
      • Improving Cash Flow
      • Measuring and Increasing Profit
      • Improving Organisational Structures
      • Measuring the Effectiveness of the Workforce
      • Recruitment, Selection and Training
      • Motivating Employees
      • Making Operational Decisions
      • Production: Quality
      • Customer Service
      • Working with Suppliers
      • Using Technology in Operations
      • Marketing Intro
      • The Marketing Mix
      • MM: Product
      • MM: Promotion
      • MM: Pricing
      • MM: Place
      • Competitiveness
      • AQA Previous Exam Papers
  • A2 AQA Business Studies
    • Unit 3 Strategies For Success >
      • Objectives and Strategies
      • Financial Objectives
      • Measuring Financial Performance
      • Interpreting Accounts
      • Financial Strategies
      • Investment Decisions
      • Marketing Objectives
      • Analysing Markets and Marketing
      • Marketing Strategies
      • Marketing Plans
      • Operational Objectives
      • Scale and Resource Mix
      • Innovation
      • Location
      • Lean Production
      • HR Objectives and Strategies
      • Workforce Plans
      • Organisational Structures
      • Employer/Employee Relations
      • AQA Previous Exam Papers
    • Unit 4 The Business Environment and Change >
      • Corporate Aims & Objectives
      • Economic Environment
      • Political and Legal Environment
      • Social Environment
      • Technological Environment
      • Competitive Environment
      • Internal Business Change
      • Planning For Change
      • Leadership
      • Culture
      • Making Strategic Decisions
      • Managing Change
      • AQA Previous Exam Papers
  • Business Studies Past Exam Papers and Mark Schemes
  • AS AQA Economics
    • Unit 1 Markets and Market Failure >
      • Economic Activity
      • Economoic Resources
      • Firms, Individuals and Governments
      • Scarcity, Choice and the Allocation of Resources
      • Production Possibility
      • Value Judgements
      • Demand For Goods & Services
      • Price, Income and Cross Elasticities
      • Supply of Goods & Services
      • Price Elasticity of Supply
      • Equilibrium Market Prices
      • Demand & Supply Analysis
      • Market Relationships
      • Market Resource Allocation
      • Production
      • Market Failure
      • Public Goods
      • Consumption and Production Externalities
      • Merit and Demerit Goods
      • Monopoly and Allocation of Resources
      • Immobility of Factors of Production
      • Inequalities in the Distribution of Income and Wealth
      • Government Intervention
      • Government Failure
      • Govt. Intervention on Market Outcomes
    • Unit 2 The National Economy >
      • Macroeconomic Indicators
      • The Economic Cycle
      • The Circular Flow of Income
      • Aggregate Demand & Aggregate Supply Analysis
      • Government Economic Policy
      • Economic Growth
      • Inflation & Deflation
      • Employment & Unemployment
      • Balance of Payments
      • Fiscal Policy
      • Monetary Policy
      • Supply Side Policies
      • AQA Previous Exam Papers
  • A2 AQA Economics
    • Unit 3 Business Economics and the Distribution of Income >
      • The Objectives of Firms
      • The Divorce of Ownership from Control
      • Technological Change
      • The Model of Perfect Competition
      • Growth of Firms
      • Sources of Monopoly Power
      • Model of Monopoly
      • Collusive and Non Collusive Oligopoly
      • Price Discrimination
      • Interdependence in Oligopolistic Markets
      • Consumer and Producer Surplus
      • Contestable and Non-Contestable Markets
      • Market Structure, Static Efficiency, Dynamic Efficiency and Resource Allocation
      • The Demand for Labour, Marginal Productivity Theory
      • Influences on the Supply of Labour to Different Markets
      • Impact of a National Minimum Wage Rate
      • Determination of Relative Wage Rates and Levels of Employment in Perfectly and Imperfectly Competitive Labour Markets
      • The Influence of Trade Unions In Determining Levels of Employment
      • Discrimination in the Labour Market
      • Distribution of Income and Wealth
      • Market Failure and Government Failure
      • Competition Policy
      • Public Ownership, Privatisation, Regulation and De-Regulation of Markets
      • Problem of Poverty
      • Notions of Equity
      • Government Policies to Alleviate Poverty and to Influence the Distribution of Income and Wealth
      • Cost Benefit Analysis
    • Unit 4 The National and International Economy >
      • Economic Cycle and Economic Growth
      • Uses of National Income Data
      • Unemployment
      • Inflation and Deflation
      • Macroeconomic Models and Policies
      • Fiscal Policy
      • Supply-Side Policies
      • Monetary Policy, the Money Supply and Interest Rates
      • Exchange Rate Policy
      • Globalisation
      • Trade
      • Balance of Payments
      • Exchange Rate Systems
      • European Union
  • Economics Past Exam Papers and Mark Schemes
  • Essay Submission
  • Student Employment
  • Higher Education
    • Student University Experiences
  • Yr 9 Enterprise
  • China Blog BUSS4
  • Mr Young's Cover
  • BTEC L3 Business Y12
    • Unit 2
  • BTEC L3 Business Y13
  • Real Business Challenge
  • Home
  • Submission
  • GCSE Business & Economics
    • Unit 1 Introduction to Small Business >
      • Spotting a Business Opportunity
      • Showing Enterprise
      • Putting a Business Idea into Practice
      • Making the Start Up Effective
      • The Economic Context
    • Unit 2 Investigating a Small Business
    • Unit 5 Economic Understanding
  • AS Level Business Studies
    • Unit 1 Planning and Financing a Business >
      • Enterprise
      • Generating and Protecting Business Ideas
      • Transforming Resources Into Goods and Services
      • Developing Business Plans
      • Market Research
      • Understanding Markets
      • Business Legal Structure
      • Raising Finance
      • Locating the Business
      • Employing People
      • Calculating Costs, Revenue and Profits
      • Break Even Analysis
      • Cash Flow Forecasting
      • Setting Budgets
      • Assessing Business Start Ups
      • AQA Previous Exam Papers
    • Unit 2 Managing a Business >
      • Using Budgets
      • Improving Cash Flow
      • Measuring and Increasing Profit
      • Improving Organisational Structures
      • Measuring the Effectiveness of the Workforce
      • Recruitment, Selection and Training
      • Motivating Employees
      • Making Operational Decisions
      • Production: Quality
      • Customer Service
      • Working with Suppliers
      • Using Technology in Operations
      • Marketing Intro
      • The Marketing Mix
      • MM: Product
      • MM: Promotion
      • MM: Pricing
      • MM: Place
      • Competitiveness
      • AQA Previous Exam Papers
  • A2 AQA Business Studies
    • Unit 3 Strategies For Success >
      • Objectives and Strategies
      • Financial Objectives
      • Measuring Financial Performance
      • Interpreting Accounts
      • Financial Strategies
      • Investment Decisions
      • Marketing Objectives
      • Analysing Markets and Marketing
      • Marketing Strategies
      • Marketing Plans
      • Operational Objectives
      • Scale and Resource Mix
      • Innovation
      • Location
      • Lean Production
      • HR Objectives and Strategies
      • Workforce Plans
      • Organisational Structures
      • Employer/Employee Relations
      • AQA Previous Exam Papers
    • Unit 4 The Business Environment and Change >
      • Corporate Aims & Objectives
      • Economic Environment
      • Political and Legal Environment
      • Social Environment
      • Technological Environment
      • Competitive Environment
      • Internal Business Change
      • Planning For Change
      • Leadership
      • Culture
      • Making Strategic Decisions
      • Managing Change
      • AQA Previous Exam Papers
  • Business Studies Past Exam Papers and Mark Schemes
  • AS AQA Economics
    • Unit 1 Markets and Market Failure >
      • Economic Activity
      • Economoic Resources
      • Firms, Individuals and Governments
      • Scarcity, Choice and the Allocation of Resources
      • Production Possibility
      • Value Judgements
      • Demand For Goods & Services
      • Price, Income and Cross Elasticities
      • Supply of Goods & Services
      • Price Elasticity of Supply
      • Equilibrium Market Prices
      • Demand & Supply Analysis
      • Market Relationships
      • Market Resource Allocation
      • Production
      • Market Failure
      • Public Goods
      • Consumption and Production Externalities
      • Merit and Demerit Goods
      • Monopoly and Allocation of Resources
      • Immobility of Factors of Production
      • Inequalities in the Distribution of Income and Wealth
      • Government Intervention
      • Government Failure
      • Govt. Intervention on Market Outcomes
    • Unit 2 The National Economy >
      • Macroeconomic Indicators
      • The Economic Cycle
      • The Circular Flow of Income
      • Aggregate Demand & Aggregate Supply Analysis
      • Government Economic Policy
      • Economic Growth
      • Inflation & Deflation
      • Employment & Unemployment
      • Balance of Payments
      • Fiscal Policy
      • Monetary Policy
      • Supply Side Policies
      • AQA Previous Exam Papers
  • A2 AQA Economics
    • Unit 3 Business Economics and the Distribution of Income >
      • The Objectives of Firms
      • The Divorce of Ownership from Control
      • Technological Change
      • The Model of Perfect Competition
      • Growth of Firms
      • Sources of Monopoly Power
      • Model of Monopoly
      • Collusive and Non Collusive Oligopoly
      • Price Discrimination
      • Interdependence in Oligopolistic Markets
      • Consumer and Producer Surplus
      • Contestable and Non-Contestable Markets
      • Market Structure, Static Efficiency, Dynamic Efficiency and Resource Allocation
      • The Demand for Labour, Marginal Productivity Theory
      • Influences on the Supply of Labour to Different Markets
      • Impact of a National Minimum Wage Rate
      • Determination of Relative Wage Rates and Levels of Employment in Perfectly and Imperfectly Competitive Labour Markets
      • The Influence of Trade Unions In Determining Levels of Employment
      • Discrimination in the Labour Market
      • Distribution of Income and Wealth
      • Market Failure and Government Failure
      • Competition Policy
      • Public Ownership, Privatisation, Regulation and De-Regulation of Markets
      • Problem of Poverty
      • Notions of Equity
      • Government Policies to Alleviate Poverty and to Influence the Distribution of Income and Wealth
      • Cost Benefit Analysis
    • Unit 4 The National and International Economy >
      • Economic Cycle and Economic Growth
      • Uses of National Income Data
      • Unemployment
      • Inflation and Deflation
      • Macroeconomic Models and Policies
      • Fiscal Policy
      • Supply-Side Policies
      • Monetary Policy, the Money Supply and Interest Rates
      • Exchange Rate Policy
      • Globalisation
      • Trade
      • Balance of Payments
      • Exchange Rate Systems
      • European Union
  • Economics Past Exam Papers and Mark Schemes
  • Essay Submission
  • Student Employment
  • Higher Education
    • Student University Experiences
  • Yr 9 Enterprise
  • China Blog BUSS4
  • Mr Young's Cover
  • BTEC L3 Business Y12
    • Unit 2
  • BTEC L3 Business Y13
  • Real Business Challenge
Econbus

GCSE business & economics

GCSE Business & Economics

Unit 1-2 (year 10)
These units cover the issues and skills involved in starting up and running a small business.  We look at the characteristics of an entrepreneur, marketing, product design, finance, human resources and business planning. Unit 2 is a controlled assessment.
Unit 5 (Year 11)
This unit introduces the student to the ways in which economists think and practise, and provides vital skills to help them understand some of the burning issues of the day e.g. growth, inflation, interest rates, employment, exchange rates and oil prices.


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Unit 1 Introduction to Small Business
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Unit 5 Economic Understanding
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Unit 2 Investigating Small Business
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