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GAC Business

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GAC Business is three modules. GAC012 introduces what firms do, the economics acting on them from outside, planning, management practice, employment relations and marketing. GAC034 turns the same ideas towards your own money and a start-up, from budgeting and credit to a full business plan. GAC022 widens the frame to globalisation, international economics and marketing across cultures.

Every module ends in a research task. Investigating a real business, presenting findings in a business format and defending them is a named outcome, so a large share of the credit comes from a report rather than from recall.

Format is part of the mark. A report, a memo and a business plan each have a shape the module expects, and using the wrong one costs marks even when the analysis is sound.

GAC012 is widely credited by universities, which is one reason it is the most commonly chosen elective in the programme after the compulsory core.

Case studies and report briefs on this site are original, written against the module outcomes and the kinds of task ACT centres set.

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    GAC012 Business II: Business Studies

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    • 1.1 What this module is, and how it is marked
    • 1.1 Introduction to business: what do businesses do?
    • 1.2 External sources of change: introductory economics
    • 1.3 External and internal sources of change
    • 1.4 Planning
    • 1.5 Effective management practice
    • 1.6 Support services: employment relations
    • 1.7 Support services: marketing
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    GAC034 Personal Finance & Entrepreneurship

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    • 2.1 What this module is, and how it is marked
    • 2.1 Budgeting and saving
    • 2.2 Spending and investing
    • 2.3 Entrepreneurship
    • 2.4 Marketing and sales plan
    • 2.5 Operations and personnel
    • 2.6 Financial plan
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    GAC022 Business III: International Business Studies

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    • 3.1 What this module is, and how it is marked
    • 3.1 Introduction to international business
    • 3.2 External influences: international economics
    • 3.3 Additional external influences
    • 3.4 Internal influences on international business
    • 3.5 International marketing and culture

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