Pearson Edexcel GCSE Business (1BS0)

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GCSE · Pearson Edexcel 1BS0

Getting started

5 lessons · about 68 minutes

What businesses do 12 min
Enterprise: from problem to business idea 13 min
Business maths: revenue, costs and profit 15 min
Percentages and business data 15 min
Explaining in Business: building a chain of reasoning 13 min

1.1 Enterprise and entrepreneurship

2 lessons · about 27 minutes

Why new business ideas happen 14 min
Entrepreneurs, risk and reward 13 min

1.2 Spotting a business opportunity

4 lessons · about 54 minutes

1.3 Putting a business idea into practice

8 lessons · about 2 h 10 min

Business aims and objectives 14 min
Revenue, costs and profit 17 min
Break-even 17 min
Break-even diagrams 16 min
Break-even: calculations, changes and margin of safety 18 min
Cash flow 16 min
Completing a cash-flow forecast 18 min
Sources of finance and interest 15 min

1.4 Making the business effective

4 lessons · about 59 minutes

Business ownership and franchising 18 min
Business location 14 min
The marketing mix 15 min
Business plans 12 min

1.5 Understanding external influences on business

5 lessons · about 73 minutes

Business stakeholders 15 min
Technology and business 13 min
Legislation and business 15 min
The economy and business 18 min
Responding to external influences 12 min

2.1 Growing the business

5 lessons · about 74 minutes

Methods of business growth 16 min
Finance for growing businesses 13 min
Changing aims and objectives 12 min
Business and globalisation 18 min
Ethics, the environment and business 15 min

2.2 Making marketing decisions

5 lessons · about 75 minutes

Product: design mix and life cycle 18 min
Price 16 min
Promotion 16 min
Place: methods of distribution 12 min
Using the marketing mix 13 min

2.3 Making operational decisions

4 lessons · about 61 minutes

Business operations and production 16 min
Working with suppliers and stock 18 min
Managing quality 14 min
The sales process and customer service 13 min

2.4 Making financial decisions

4 lessons · about 64 minutes

Gross and net profit margins 18 min
Average rate of return 15 min
Understanding business performance 15 min
Business calculations: percentages, averages and market share 16 min

2.5 Making human resource decisions

6 lessons · about 1 h 30 min