GCSE Business helps students to gain knowledge and understanding of key business concepts and gives the students the opportunity to explore real business issues and how businesses work.

The clear and straightforward structure to our new specification will support your teaching and students’ learning.

Students will consider the practical application of business concepts. The units provide opportunities to explore theories and concepts in the most relevant way, through the context of events in the business and economic world.

Students apply their knowledge and understanding to different business contexts, ranging from small enterprises to large multinationals and businesses operating in local, national and global contexts.

Students develop an understanding of how these contexts impact on business behaviour.

Students will apply their knowledge and understanding to business decision making including:

• the interdependent nature of business activity

• influences on business

• business operations, finance

• marketing and human resources

• how these interdependencies underpin business decision making

• how different business contexts affect business decisions

• the use and limitation of quantitative and qualitative data in making business decisions

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