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A-A* (AO3/4) - Assessing Financial Performance

A-A* (AO3/4) - Assessing Financial Performance

Business: AQA A Level (2023 Specification), topic 5.2.2

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Business: AQA A Level (2023 Specification) contents

1 What is Business?
- 1.1 Nature & Purpose of Business
  1.1.1 Why Businesses Exist
  1.1.2 Business Aims & Objectives
  1.1.3 End of Topic Test - The Nature of Business
- 1.2 Different Business Forms
  1.2.1 Key Business Terms
  1.2.2 Sole Traders
  1.2.3 Limited Liability
  1.2.4 Non-Profit Organisations & Social Enterprises
  1.2.5 Social Enterprises
  1.2.6 Franchising
  1.2.7 Shareholders
  1.2.8 End of Topic Test - Different Businesses
  1.2.9 A-A* (AO3/4) - Franchising at Blockbuster
- 1.3 Businesses Operate Within an External Environment
  1.3.1 External Environments
  1.3.2 A-A* (AO3/4) - Interest Rates in the UK
2 Managers, Leadership & Decision Making
- 2.1 Management, Leadership & Decision Making
  2.1.1 Managers
  2.1.2 Management Theories
  2.1.3 Management vs Leadership
  2.1.4 Leadership Styles
  2.1.5 End of Topic Test - Management
- 2.2 Management Decision Making
  2.2.1 Scientific Decision Making
  2.2.2 Influences on Decision Making
  2.2.3 Intuition Decision Making
  2.2.4 A-A* (AO3/4) - Cost Leadership
  2.2.5 End of Topic Test - Management Decisions
- 2.3 Role & Importance of Stakeholders
  2.3.1 Stakeholders
3 Marketing Management
- 3.1 Setting Marketing Objectives
  3.1.1 Setting Marketing Objectives
  3.1.2 Market Calculations
- 3.2 Understanding Markets & Customers
  3.2.1 Market Research
  3.2.2 Methods of Market Research
  3.2.3 Interpreting PED & YED
- 3.3 Segmentation, Targeting, Positioning
  3.3.1 Segmentation
  3.3.2 Niche & Mass Markets
  3.3.3 Market Mapping
- 3.4 Using the Marketing Mix
  3.4.1 Marketing Mix
  3.4.2 Pricing Decisions & Price Skimming
  3.4.3 Pricing Decisions & Price Penetration
  3.4.4 Promotional Decisions
  3.4.5 Promotional Decisions 2
  3.4.6 Promotional Decisions 3
  3.4.7 Distribution Decisions
  3.4.8 Distribution Decisions 2
  3.4.9 Social Media & Influencers
  3.4.10 Digital Marketing
  3.4.11 Evaluating Digital Marketing
  3.4.12 A-A* (AO3/4) - The Marketing Mix & Promotion
  3.4.13 A-A* (AO3/4) - Pricing & Competition
4 Operational Management
- 4.1 Setting Operational Objectives
  4.1.1 Setting Operational Objectives
- 4.2 Analysing Operational Performance
  4.2.1 Operations Data
  4.2.2 Capacity
  4.2.3 A-A* (AO3/4) - The Problem with Operations Data
- 4.3 Increasing Efficiency & Productivity
  4.3.1 Productivity & Efficiency
  4.3.2 Lean Production
  4.3.3 Technology & Efficiency
  4.3.4 A-A* (AO3/4) - Toyota Production System
- 4.4 Improving Quality
  4.4.1 Measuring & Identifying Quality
  4.4.2 Total Quality Management
  4.4.3 Evaluating Total Quality Management
  4.4.4 Quality Assurance & Quality Control
- 4.5 Managing Inventory & Supply Chains
  4.5.1 Inventory
  4.5.2 Improving the Supply Chain
  4.5.3 Outsourcing
- 4.6 Business & The External Environment
  4.6.1 Business Considerations from Globalisation
5 Financial Management
- 5.1 Setting Financial Objectives
  5.1.1 Setting Financial Objectives
  5.1.2 Influences on Financial Objectives
  5.1.3 Profit
  5.1.4 Revenue & Costs
  5.1.5 Cash-Flow & Budgets
- 5.2 Analysing Financial Performance
  5.2.1 Break-Even & Profitability Analysis
  5.2.2 A-A* (AO3/4) - Assessing Financial Performance
- 5.3 Sources of Finance
  5.3.1 Internal Sources of Finance
  5.3.2 External Sources of Finance
  5.3.3 Crowdfunding
  5.3.4 Factors for Financing
  5.3.5 A/A* (AO3/4) - Debt
- 5.4 Improving Cash Flow & Profits
  5.4.1 Improving Cash Flow & Profits
6 Human Resource Management
- 6.1 Setting Human Resource Objectives
  6.1.1 Setting Human Resource Objectives
  6.1.2 Human Resource Management
- 6.2 Analysing Human Resource Performance
  6.2.1 Analysing Human Resource Performance
  6.2.2 Analysing Human Resource Performance 2
- 6.3 Improving Org Design & Human Resource Flow
  6.3.1 Organisational Design
  6.3.2 Human Resource Flow
- 6.4 Improving Motivation & Engagement
  6.4.1 Motivating & Engaging Employees
  6.4.2 Different Incentives
  6.4.3 Evaluating Incentives
  6.4.4 Taylor's Theory
  6.4.5 Maslow's Theory
  6.4.6 Herzberg's Theory
  6.4.7 A-A* (AO3/4) - Amazon & Netflix Org Design
  6.4.8 A-A* (AO3/4) - Taylorism & Jack Welch
- 6.5 Improving Employer-Employee Relations
  6.5.1 Improving Employer-Employee Relations
7 Strategic Position of a Business (A Level Only)
- 7.1 Mission, Objectives, Strategy
  7.1.1 Business Mission & Corporate Objective
  7.1.2 Mission, Corporate Objectives & Strategy
  7.1.3 SWOT Analysis
  7.1.4 A-A* (AO3/4) - SWOT Analysis
- 7.2 Financial Ratio Analysis
  7.2.1 Financial Ratios
- 7.3 Assessing Overall Performance
  7.3.1 Non-Financial Data
  7.3.2 Core Competences
  7.3.3 Assessing Business Performance
- 7.4 Assessing Political & Legal Change
  7.4.1 Political & Legal Change
- 7.5 Assessing Economic Change
  7.5.1 Economic Environment
- 7.6 Assessing Social & Technological Change
  7.6.1 Social & Technological Environment
  7.6.2 Lifestyle & Technological Environment
  7.6.3 Corporate Social Responsibility
- 7.7 The Competitive Environment
  7.7.1 Choosing Areas of Competition
  7.7.2 Choosing How to Compete
- 7.8 Investment Appraisal
  7.8.1 Investment Appraisal
8 Choosing Strategic Direction (A Level Only)
- 8.1 Markets to Compete & Products to Offer
  8.1.1 Product Decisions
- 8.2 How to Compete
  8.2.1 Porter's Five Forces
  8.2.2 A-A* (AO3/4) - The 5 Forces
9 Pursuing Strategies (A Level Only)
- 9.1 Assessing a Change in Scale
  9.1.1 Growth & Retrenchment
  9.1.2 Challenges of Growth
  9.1.3 Sourcing Resources & Entering Markets
  9.1.4 A-A* (AO3/4) - Diversification
  9.1.5 A-A* (AO3/4) - Diseconomies of Scale
- 9.2 Assessing Innovation
  9.2.1 Assessing Innovation
- 9.3 Globalisation & Internationalisation
  9.3.1 Internationalisation
  9.3.2 Managing Internationalisation
  9.3.3 Impact of Internationalisation
  9.3.4 A-A* (AO3/4) - Internationalisation in Guatemala
- 9.4 Greater Use of Digital Technology
  9.4.1 Assessing Use of Digital Technology
  9.4.2 Impact of Digital Technology
10 Managing Strategic Change
- 10.1 Managing Change
  10.1.1 Managing Change
- 10.2 Managing Organisational Culture
  10.2.1 Managing Organisational Culture
  10.2.2 Organisational Structures
- 10.3 Managing Strategic Implementation
  10.3.1 Managing Strategic Implementation
- 10.4 Problems with Strategy & Why They Fail
  10.4.1 Problems with Strategy

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