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Cambridge Cambridge International AS & A Level Business 9609

160 points in 10 topics, with Cambridge's codes and titles.

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1 Business and its environment (AS Level)

1.1 Enterprise
1.1.1 The nature of business activity
1.1.2 The role of entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs
1.1.3 Business plans
1.2 Business structure
1.2.1 Economic sectors
1.2.2 Business ownership
1.3 Size of business
1.3.1 Measurements of business size
1.3.2 Significance of small businesses
1.3.3 Business growth
1.4 Business objectives
1.4.1 Business objectives in the private sector and public sector
1.4.2 Objectives and business decisions
1.5 Stakeholders in a business
1.5.1 Business stakeholders
1.5.2 The relative importance and influence of stakeholders on business activities

2 Human resource management (AS Level)

2.1 Human resource management (HRM)
2.1.1 Purpose and roles of HRM
2.1.2 Workforce planning
2.1.3 Recruitment and selection
2.1.4 Redundancy and dismissal
2.1.5 Morale and welfare
2.1.6 Training and development
2.1.7 Management and workforce relations
2.2 Motivation
2.2.1 Motivation as a tool of management and leadership
2.2.2 Human needs
2.2.3 Motivation theories
2.2.4 Motivation methods in practice: financial motivators, non-financial motivators
2.3 Management
2.3.1 Management and managers

4 Operations management (AS Level)

4.1 The nature of operations
4.1.1 The transformational process
4.1.2 Efficiency, effectiveness, productivity and sustainability
4.1.3 Capital intensive and labour intensive operations
4.1.4 Operations methods: job, batch, flow, mass customisation
4.2 Inventory management
4.2.1 Managing inventory
4.2.2 Just in Time (JIT)
4.3 Capacity utilisation and outsourcing
4.3.1 Significance and measurement of capacity utilisation
4.3.2 Outsourcing

5 Finance and accounting (AS Level)

5.1 Business finance
5.1.1 The need for business finance
5.1.2 Working capital
5.2 Sources of finance
5.2.1 Business ownership and sources of finance
5.2.2 Internal and external sources of finance
5.2.3 Factors affecting the sources of finance
5.2.4 Selecting the source of finance
5.3 Forecasting and managing cash flows
5.3.1 Cash flow forecasts
5.4 Costs
5.4.1 Cost information
5.4.2 Approaches to costing: full, contribution
5.4.3 Uses of cost information
5.4.4 Break-even analysis
5.5 Budgets
5.5.1 The meaning and purpose of budgets
5.5.2 Variances

6 Business and its environment (A Level)

6.1 External influences on business activity
6.1.1 Political and legal
6.1.2 Economic
6.1.3 Social and demographic
6.1.4 Technological
6.1.5 Competitors and suppliers
6.1.6 International
6.1.7 Environmental
6.2 Business strategy
6.2.1 Developing business strategy
6.2.2 Corporate planning and implementation

8 Marketing (A Level)

8.1 Marketing analysis
8.1.1 Elasticity
8.1.2 Product development
8.1.3 Sales forecasting
8.2 Marketing strategy
8.2.1 Planning the marketing strategy
8.2.2 Approaches to marketing strategy
8.2.3 Strategies for international marketing

9 Operations management (A Level)

9.1 Location and scale
9.1.1 Location
9.1.2 Scale of operations
9.2 Quality management
9.2.1 Quality control and quality assurance
9.2.2 Benchmarking
9.3 Operations strategy
9.3.1 Operational decisions
9.3.2 Flexibility and innovation
9.3.3 Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
9.3.4 Lean production
9.3.5 Operations planning