Baccalauréat international · IB Diploma
Business Management · HL
Papers, samples and curriculum documents for this course. · Dossiers, échantillons et documents de programme pour ce cours.
Handouts, exercise sheets and slides
Shared topic documents retain their source course and topic titles. Use your chosen board’s specification for coverage, tier and exam requirements.
Handouts · Supports de cours · A-Level Business · Commerce A-Level (10)
- 1. Business and its environment · 1. Entreprise et son environnement
- 2. Human resource management · 2. Gestion des ressources humaines
- 3. Marketing
- 4. Operations management · 4. Gestion des opérations
- 5. Finance and accounting · 5. Finance et comptabilité
- 6. Business and its environment (A Level) · 6. Entreprise et son environnement (A Level)
- 7. Human resource management (A Level) · 7. Gestion des ressources humaines (A Level)
- 8. Marketing (A Level)
- 9. Operations management (A Level) · 9. Gestion des opérations (A Level)
- 10. Finance and accounting (A Level) · 10. Finance et comptabilité (A Level)
Exercise sheets · Fiches d'exercices · A-Level Business · Commerce A-Level (34)
- 1.1 Enterprise · 1.1 Entreprise
- 1.2 Business structure · 1.2 Structure de l'entreprise
- 1.3 Size of business · 1.3 Taille de l'entreprise
- 1.4 Business objectives · 1.4 Objectifs d'entreprise
- 1.5 Stakeholders in a business · 1.5 Parties prenantes dans une entreprise
- 2.1 Human resource management · 2.1 Gestion des ressources humaines
- 2.2 Motivation
- 2.3 Management
- 3.1 The nature of marketing · 3.1 La nature du marketing
- 3.2 Market research · 3.2 Étude de marché
- 3.3 The marketing mix · 3.3 Le mix marketing
- 4.1 The nature of operations · 4.1 La nature des opérations
- 4.2 Inventory management · 4.2 Gestion des stocks
- 4.3 Capacity utilisation and outsourcing · 4.3 Utilisation des capacités et sous-traitance
- 5.1 Business finance · 5.1 Finance d'entreprise
- 5.2 Sources of finance · 5.2 Sources de financement
- 5.3 Forecasting and managing cash flows · 5.3 Prévision et gestion des flux de trésorerie
- 5.4 Costs · 5.4 Coûts
- 5.5 Budgets
- 6.1 External influences on business activity · 6.1 Influences externes sur l'activité commerciale
- 6.2 Business strategy · 6.2 Stratégie d'entreprise
- 7.1 Organisational structure · 7.1 Structure organisationnelle
- 7.2 Business communication · 7.2 Communication en entreprise
- 7.3 Leadership
- 7.4 Human resource management strategy · 7.4 Stratégie de gestion des ressources humaines
- 8.1 Marketing analysis · 8.1 Analyse marketing
- 8.2 Marketing strategy · 8.2 Stratégie marketing
- 9.1 Location and scale · 9.1 Emplacement et échelle
- 9.2 Quality management · 9.2 Gestion de la qualité
- 9.3 Operations strategy · 9.3 Stratégie opérationnelle
- 10.1 Financial statements · 10.1 États financiers
- 10.2 Analysis of published accounts · 10.2 Analyse des comptes publiés
- 10.3 Investment appraisal · 10.3 Appreciation d'investissement
- 10.4 Finance and accounting strategy · 10.4 Stratégie financière et comptable
Presentation slides · Diaporamas de présentation · A-Level Business · Commerce A-Level (10)
- 1. Business and its environment · 1. Entreprise et son environnement
- 2. Human resource management · 2. Gestion des ressources humaines
- 3. Marketing
- 4. Operations management · 4. Gestion des opérations
- 5. Finance and accounting · 5. Finance et comptabilité
- 6. Business and its environment (A Level) · 6. Entreprise et son environnement (A Level)
- 7. Human resource management (A Level) · 7. Gestion des ressources humaines (A Level)
- 8. Marketing (A Level)
- 9. Operations management (A Level) · 9. Gestion des opérations (A Level)
- 10. Finance and accounting (A Level) · 10. Finance et comptabilité (A Level)
Course units and learning goals · Unités de cours et objectifs d'apprentissage
These lessons teach selected course objectives. Check the remaining coverage gaps; the material is not a complete preparation programme. · Ces leçons abordent des objectifs de cours sélectionnés. Vérifiez les lacunes restantes en couverture ; ce matériel ne constitue pas un programme d'entraînement complet.
1 · Business organization and stakeholders
- Compare entities, objectives, growth and multinational operations
- Evaluate stakeholder conflicts through the course concepts
- stakeholder
- A person or group affected by a business decision.
- limited liability
- Owners' financial loss is limited to their investment under the legal arrangement.
2 · Human resources and motivation
- Explain structure, leadership, motivation and communication
- Evaluate HR choices in a particular business context
- delegation
- Passing authority for a task to another person.
- motivation
- Forces that influence effort and persistence toward a goal.
3 · Finance, accounts and appraisal
- Calculate and interpret costs, revenue, profit, liquidity and cash flow
- Compare finance and investment appraisal using assumptions
- cash flow
- Cash receipts and payments over a period.
- liquidity
- Ability to meet short-term financial obligations.
4 · Marketing decisions
- Use segmentation, targeting, positioning, research and the seven Ps
- Evaluate ethical and international marketing choices
- segmentation
- Dividing a market into groups with similar needs.
- primary research
- Data collected directly for the current research purpose.
5 · Operations and break-even decisions
- Compare production methods and location factors
- Calculate break-even and evaluate operational choices
- contribution
- Selling price per unit minus variable cost per unit.
- margin of safety
- Actual or forecast output above break-even output.
HL toolkit/P3 · Social-enterprise action planning
- Synthesize resources into a feasible strategic plan
- Evaluate finance, operations and stakeholder outcomes over time
- social enterprise
- A trading organization with a social purpose.
- contingency plan
- A prepared response to a possible disruption.
Preparing for this qualification · Préparation à cette qualification
- SL: Paper 1 90 min 35%, Paper 2 90 min 35%, research project 30%. HL: Paper 1 90 min 25%, Paper 2 105 min 30%, social-enterprise Paper 3 75 min 25%, research project 20%.
- Business research project investigates one real organization through a conceptual lens. The toolkit and change, creativity, ethics and sustainability connect units; HL-only topics remain marked.
Teaching coverage still needed · Couverture pédagogique encore nécessaire
- Full guide and toolkit list needed for granular SL/HL objectives; dedicated HL culture, relations, forecasting, quality, planning, R&D and MIS lessons still required.
- Reviewed runtime bank remains unavailable; no practice registry promotion.
Specifications and sample documents · Spécifications et documents d'échantillon
- Business Management — Subject brief · 2024 ↗
First assessment: 2024
Course materials · Matériel pédagogique
- Study notes · Notes de cours →
- Revision questions · Questions de révision →
- Teaching guidance · Guide pédagogique · Teacher access · Accès enseignant →
- Teacher diagnostics · Diagnostique enseignant · Teacher access · Accès enseignant →
- Supervised task guidance · Guide pour la tâche supervisée · Teacher access · Accès enseignant →
Course preparation · Préparation du cours
Documents are available. Board-specific notes, assessments and interactive past-paper practice are not yet available for every course. · Les documents sont disponibles. Les notes spécifiques au conseil, les évaluations et la pratique interactive des anciens sujets ne sont pas encore disponibles pour tous les cours.
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