Business Studies:Single

Course summary

Business is about the nature of business activity, how it operates and makes a profit, how it matches strategies to corporate objectives, and the internal and external influences upon business decision-making. In other words, if you study Business at sixth-form level you will learn all about how and why businesses can become successful and how and why they can fail. The focus in year 12 is on improving business performance and the decisions needed to achieve this aim. In the full A level you will study strategic decision making. Building on what you have learned in the lower sixth, you will look at the impact of technology, Corporate Social Responsibility, and ethical and environmental issues related to strategic decisions. You will also explore the difficulties in forecasting future trends, the ideas of feasibility and risk and how strategic decisions impact on the stakeholders of a business as well as assessing financial calculation (such as Ratio Analysis and Investment Appraisal) to support decision making. Theoretical analysts are also studied in depth.