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Free Business 9609 course — 116 syllabus topics

Revise Cambridge A-Level Business (9609) topic by topic. This free course covers 116 official syllabus points including 116 premium visual lessons on Business finance, Marketing, Human resources, Strategy. Each topic links to real past-paper questions with mark-scheme marking — a free alternative to paid note sites.

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1 · Business and its environment

◆The nature of business activity1.1.1CONTINUE→The role of entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs1.1.2→Business plans1.1.3→Economic sectors1.2.1→Business ownership1.2.2→Measurements of business size1.3.1→Significance of small businesses1.3.2→Business growth1.3.3→Business objectives in the private sector and public sector1.4.1→Objectives and business decisions1.4.2→Business stakeholders1.5.1→The relative importance and influence of stakeholders on business activities1.5.2→

2 · Human resource management

Purpose and roles of HRM2.1.1→Workforce planning2.1.2→Recruitment and selection2.1.3→Redundancy and dismissal2.1.4→Morale and welfare2.1.5→Training and development2.1.6→Management and workforce relations2.1.7→Motivation as a tool of management and leadership2.2.1→Human needs2.2.2→Motivation theories2.2.3→Motivation methods in practice: financial motivators, non-financial motivators2.2.4→Management and managers2.3.1→

3 · Marketing

The role of marketing and its relationship with other business activities3.1.1→Demand and supply3.1.2→Markets3.1.3→Consumer and industrial marketing3.1.4→Mass marketing and niche marketing3.1.5→Market segmentation3.1.6→Customer relationship marketing (CRM)3.1.7→The purposes of market research3.2.1→Primary research and secondary research3.2.2→Sampling3.2.3→Market research data3.2.4→The elements of the marketing mix (the 4Ps)3.3.1→Product3.3.2→Product portfolio analysis3.3.3→Pricing methods3.3.4→Promotion methods3.3.5→Place (channels of distribution)3.3.6→

4 · Operations management

The transformational process4.1.1→Efficiency, effectiveness, productivity and sustainability4.1.2→Capital intensive and labour intensive operations4.1.3→Operations methods: job, batch, flow, mass customisation4.1.4→Managing inventory4.2.1→Just in Time (JIT)4.2.2→Significance and measurement of capacity utilisation4.3.1→Outsourcing4.3.2→

5 · Finance and accounting

The need for business finance5.1.1→Working capital5.1.2→Business ownership and sources of finance5.2.1→Internal and external sources of finance5.2.2→Factors affecting the sources of finance5.2.3→Selecting the source of finance5.2.4→Cash flow forecasts5.3.1→Cost information5.4.1→Approaches to costing: full, contribution5.4.2→Uses of cost information5.4.3→Break-even analysis5.4.4→The meaning and purpose of budgets5.5.1→Variances5.5.2→

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