Business
Examining Board
AQA
Course Introduction
“Entrepreneurs are not born, they’re made” - Peter Jones
“Set goals for yourself and put actionable steps in place to ensure that you achieve them. Whether you aim to get a promotion at work or set up your very own business, these ideas will only remain dreams until you play out how you are going to reach them...” - Kelly Hoppen
Business touches on every aspect of modern human society. Not only will this course enhance the skills students require for further study and in your personal life, it will prepare you for a career.
It will give students an insight into the world of work, which they will all enter eventually. We will offer students the chance to see how businesses operate in the real world and how they can contribute towards their success. Additionally, you will explore the factors that could promote a successful business of their own.
The combination of academic challenge and practical focus makes the prospect of studying this business course highly appealing and very popular with Year 9 students each year.
Assessments
2 written exams, 1 hour 45 minutes per exam
Progression
Students will leave this business course with a number of transferable skills, including understanding how an organisation operates, communication, decision-making, numeracy and presenting – just to name a few, making them a suitable candidate for any A Level course.
Continuing to study business can lead students towards a wide number of exciting career paths including accounting and finance, marketing and advertising, as well as retail, sales, human resources and business consultancy.
Course Content
The course allows students to develop an understanding of business organisations and the internal and external factors that affect these. It provides them with knowledge in areas such as markets, customers, finance and competition. Students will learn to apply their knowledge of business to different contexts ranging from small enterprises to large multinationals, and businesses operating in local, national and global markets. They will develop an understanding of how these contexts impact on business behaviour.
The course consists of six units:
- Business in the real world
- Influences on business
- Business operations
- Human resources
- Marketing
- Finance
Students will have the chance to learn about and visit real companies as well as complete ‘The £10 Challenge’ where they are given £10 as a loan and they try to make as much profit as possible from that by coming up with a new business idea
Contact Name
Miss N Weston – Head of Business Studies and Economics
