Exam Board: AQA Level: AS/A-level Subject: Business First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2017
This textbook has been fully revised to reflect the 2015 AQA Business specification, giving you up-to-date material that supports your teaching and student’s learning.
- Gives in-depth insight into Business practices and theories - Wolinski and Coates are known for their comprehensive yet accessible style. - Ensures students can understand the real world context of what they’re learning and apply their knowledge with fact files on real businesses - Provides practice exercises at the end of each chapter that reflect the style of the new assessments including multiple choice, short answer, data response and case study questions
Contents
Unit 7 Analysing the strategic position of a business - 1 Mission, corporate objectives and strategy - 2 Analysing the existing internal position of a business to assess strengths and weaknesses: financial ratio analysis - 3 Analysing the existing internal position of a business to assess strengths and weaknesses: overall performance - 4 Analysing the external environment to assess opportunities and threats: political and legal change - 5 Analysing the external environment to assess opportunities and threats: economic change - 6 Analysing the external environment to assess opportunities and threats: social and technological - 7 Analysing the external environment to assess opportunities and threats: the competitive environment - 8 Analysing strategic options: investment appraisal
Unit 8 Choosing strategic direction - 9 Strategic direction: choosing what markets to compete in and what products to offer - 10 Strategic positioning: choosing how to compete
Unit 9 Strategic methods: how to pursue strategies - 11 Assessing a change in scale - 12 Assessing innovation - 13 Assessing internationalisation - 14 Assessing greater use of digital technology
Unit 10 Managing strategic change - 15 Managing change - 16 Managing organisation culture - 17 Managing strategic implementation - 18 Problems with strategy and why strategies fail
