Edexcel GCSE Business revision guide – About Oxford Revise
This revision guide will help you make sure you revise all the topics you need to know to do well in the Edexcel GCSE Business exams.
Revise your understanding of Theme 1: Investigating small business and Theme 2: Building a business, and learn how to apply your knowledge to all question types including case study questions.
Plenty of practice exam-style questions with useful tips on how to approach them will help you make sure you’re exam-ready.
Revise effectively with Oxford Revise
This guide covers every topic in the Edexcel GCSE Business course in depth, using clear, easy-to-understand language. For instance:
- Key terms boxes highlight the important words and language that you need to understand and help you to use them confidently.
- Revision tips give you quick ways to understand the core concepts and practice remembering them.
Exam Practice
Each chapter has lots of exam-style questions for you to practice. These are designed to build your confidence, consolidate your knowledge and stretch your understanding. As well as this, there are helpful tips throughout:
- Exam tips show you how to interpret questions, what you need to do in your answers, and give you advice on how to get as many marks as possible.
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Contents list
- The dynamic nature of business, and risk and reward
- The role of business enterprise
- Customer needs
- Market research
- Market segmentation
- The competitive environment
- Business aims and objectives
- Business revenues, costs and profits
- Cash and cash flow
- Sources of business finance
- The options for start-up and small businesses
- Business location
- The marketing mix
- Business plans
- Business stakeholders
- Technology and business
- Legislation and business
- The economy and business
- External influences
- Business growth
- Changes in business aims and objectives
- Business and globalisation
- Ethics, the environment and business
- Product
- Price
- Promotion
- Place
- Using the marketing mix to make business decisions
- Business operations
- Working with suppliers
- Managing qualit
- The sales process
- Business calculations
- Understanding business performance
- Organisational structure
- Effective recruitment
- Effective training and development
- Motivation
Answers
The Oxford Revise approach
Oxford Revise uses a clear three-step method to get you ready for your exams.
1. Knowledge – Learn the facts through an easy-to-follow ‘Knowledge Organiser’ in each chapter.
2. Retrieval – Check you’ve retained the exam knowledge, through quick-fire recall questions and answers.
3. Practice – Put your knowledge into practice by completing plenty of exam-style questions.
In addition, there are lots of hints and tips from revision and subject experts on how to plan your revision and helpful advice on techniques to build exam confidence.
Our expert authors
Authors:
Helen Coupland-Smith and Stefan Wytwyckyj
Helen Coupland-Smith
Helen graduated in Economics from Lancaster University. Before going into teaching she worked as a trainee chartered accountant and then in HR. She was Head of Business, Economics and ICT at a large secondary school in York until 2008. She has worked as a principal and senior examiner and moderator for a number of examination boards. Helen is a well-respected trainer and conference speaker. She left teaching in 2008 to pursue her ambition to put her business and economics knowledge to the test in setting up her own business. She is the founder and managing director of Time2Resources Ltd, a company specialising in Business and Economic education.
Stefan Wytwyckyj
Stefan is a lecturer in Business and Social Sciences at the University of York, and has taught Business at GCSE and A Level in both the public and private sectors. He is a senior examiner for domestic and international GCSE and A Level Business specifications, and an established author. He has written study guides and textbooks to support a range of specifications, and is an experienced teacher trainer specialising in revision, exam skills, and Business.
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