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A-Level Business
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10 video lessons
21:43
Topic 1
Business and its Environment
Look at a cup of coffee. The beans inside it cost a few cents. The milk, the cup, the lid — a few cents more. Yet people happily pay three dollars for it. So…
10:25
Topic 2
Human Resource Management
Two factories. Same machines, same materials, same hours. One makes twice as much as the other. The difference is not the equipment — it is the people. Labour…
15:14
Topic 3
Marketing
Two shops sell the same coffee at the same price. One is always busy; the other sits empty. Nothing about the product explains it. The difference is marketing…
8:06
Topic 4
Operations Management
A car factory takes in steel, plastic, glass, electricity and hours of work. Out the other end comes a car worth far more than everything that went into it.…
15:50
Topic 5
Finance and Accounting
A business can be profitable and still die. Here is how. You sell a hundred thousand pounds of goods on credit in March. The profit looks excellent. But the…
8:09
Topic 6
External Influences and Strategy
In two thousand and eight, thousands of well-run firms went under. Their products were good. Their staff were good. Their costs were under control. What killed…
8:35
Topic 7
Organisation, Leadership and HRM
A director says: cut costs by five percent this quarter. It passes to a senior manager, then a department head, then a supervisor, then the team. By the time…
8:06
Topic 8
Marketing (A Level)
Every shop is running on numbers. How much to order. What price to charge. Which new product to try. Get those wrong, and food goes in the bin, or the shelves…
7:46
Topic 9
Operations management (A Level)
A company promised its new factory in a hundred and fifteen weeks. It opened thirty weeks late, at a huge cost in wages and rent. One task slipped in the…
9:35
Topic 10
Finance and accounting (A Level)
Two shops on the same street. Both sold five hundred thousand pounds of goods last year, and they look identical. But one is about to open three new branches…