BUS6 Growing the business personal learning checklist

GCSE Edexcel Business 1BS0 · Theme 2 / Paper 2

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Growth and finance
Compare organic growth through products and markets with mergers and takeovers.
Evaluate innovation, research and development and technology as routes to new products or markets.
Explain growth's benefits and risks, including costs, capacity and integration problems.
Explain public limited companies, flotation, limited liability and effects on ownership and control.
Compare internal and external growth finance using cost, risk, duration and ownership effects.
Changing objectives
Explain why market conditions, technology, performance, legislation and internal priorities change objectives.
Explain changes in survival, growth, markets, workforce and product range as a business evolves.
Explain how objectives connect finance, marketing, operations and human resources.
Globalisation
Explain globalisation, imports, exports and multinational businesses as opportunities and threats.
Evaluate overseas production and sales using costs, competition, cultural differences and logistics.
Explain tariffs and trade blocs and calculate tariff costs.
Explain how e-commerce and an adapted marketing mix support international sales.
Ethics and the environment
Explain ethical and environmental considerations, including sourcing, waste, emissions and resource use.
Evaluate trade-offs between ethical or environmental improvements, costs, sales and profit.
Explain how pressure groups affect business behaviour and the marketing mix.
Judge ethical or environmental claims using evidence and the business's actual practices.

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