Business studies AS

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Decks in this class (28)

1.1 Understanding the nature and purpose of business.
Why do businesses exist,
What is a mission statement,
What is the purpose of a mission ...
27  cards
1.2 Understanding different business forms.
Business form is split into what ...,
Public sector businesses what bus...,
What are public corporations
61  cards
1.3 Understanding that businesses operate within an external environment.
What does the external environmen...,
The factors of the external envir...,
What do almost all businesses ope...
18  cards
2.1 Understanding management, leadership and decision making (includes Market mapping, Blake Mouton & Tannenbaum & Schmidt)
What are the 5 basic tasks of a m...,
What 4 key tasks can the role of ...,
What can planning involve
48  cards
Mintzburgs roles of management (apart of 2.1)
Mintzbergs roles of management wh...,
Mintzbergs roles of management wh...,
Mintzbergs roles of management wh...
13  cards
2.2 Understanding management decision making (includes scientific decision making & decision trees)
What,
What is scientific decision making,
What are programmed decisions
22  cards
2.3 Understanding the role and importance of stakeholders.
What is a stakeholder,
What are the two types of stakeho...,
What are primary stakeholders
37  cards
3.1 Setting marketing objective notes
What is a businesses marketing fu...,
What exchange does marketing norm...,
Who does marketing aim to satisfy...
35  cards
3.2 Understanding markets and customers (includes market mapping)
What does a business need to do t...,
What does marketing research involve,
What may marketing research be us...
83  cards
3.3 Segmentation, targeting and positioning notes
What is segmentation,
What are market segments,
What are the common ways of categ...
19  cards
3.4 Using the marketing mix
What is the marketing mix,
What are the 7ps,
Price of the product what does th...
69  cards
4.1 Setting operational objectives notes
What does operations management,
What does operations management i...,
Operations management
20  cards
4.2 Analysing operational performance.
What is labour productivity and h...,
What are unit costs and how are t...,
What is probelmatic with the way ...
16  cards
4.3 Increasing efficiency and productivity
What does efficiency mean,
Why is efficiency so important,
How can efficiency be improved
15  cards
4.4 Improving quality
What is quality,
What does a quality operations pr...,
Who is edward deming a major cont...
16  cards
4.5 Managing inventory and supply chain notes.
What is inventory stock,
What different,
Inventory may take what several d...
68  cards
5.1 Decision making to improve financial performance
What are financial objectives,
What are the advantages of settin...,
What is cash flow
44  cards
5.2 Analysing financial performance
What is a budget,
What are the different types of b...,
What are income budgets
37  cards
5.3 Sources of finance
What are the different sources of...,
What types of businesses does ven...,
What is crowdfunding
69  cards
5.4 Improving cash flow and profits
What is the first stage a busines...,
What are the number of factors th...,
Causes of cash flow problems over...
43  cards
6.1 Setting human resource objective notes.
What are,
What are some hr objectives,
Why is the number and location of...
32  cards
6.2 Analysing human resource performance
What is labour productivity,
What are unit labour costs,
How do you work out labour produc...
39  cards
6.3 Improving organisational design and human resource flow
What is job design,
What is labour productivity,
What is job enrichment
31  cards
6.4 Improving motivation and engagement
What is employee engagement,
What is the theme of engaged empl...,
When is it impossible for an orga...
42  cards
6.5 Improving employer-employee relations
How can employees be represented ...,
What is a trade union,
What are the aims of trade unions
43  cards
Exam questions
How may seasonal patterns of demand,
The blake mouton grid uses the te...,
Explain how debt factoring might ...
14  cards
Price and income elasticity of demand
What happens if ped price elastic...,
What happens if ped is between 0 1,
What happens if ped is 1
17  cards
Lean production
What is lean production,
How does lean production aim to c...,
What are the ways in which a busi...
10  cards

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