AQA Business for AS (Marcouse) Answer Guide
Published on 25. September 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
136 pages
978-1-4718-3573-5 (ISBN)
Description
- Covers all of the questions from the textbook
- Mirroring the textbook so you can quickly and easily find the material you are looking for.
- Mirroring the textbook so you can quickly and easily find the material you are looking for.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hachette Learning
Target group
College/higher education
Interest Age: From 16 to 19 years
Dimensions
Height: 286 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
420 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4718-3573-5 (9781471835735)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Ian Marcouse is a former Chief Examiner as well as bestselling Business author. He launched the A-Z brand and has published several successful books as well as editing Business Review magazine.
Content
Section 1: What is Business?
Chapter 1: Understanding the nature and purpose of business
Chapter 2: Different business forms
Chapter 3: Issues in understanding different business forms
Chapter 4: Understanding that businesses operate within an external environment
Section 2: Managers, leadership and decision-making
Chapter 5: What managers do
Chapter 6: Types of management and leadership styles and their effectiveness
Chapter 7: Understanding management decision-making
Chapter 8: Decision trees
Chapter 9: Opportunity cost
Chapter 10: Understanding the role and importance of stakeholders
Section 3: Decision-making to improve marketing performance
Chapter 11: Marketing and decision-making
Chapter 12: Marketing and competitiveness
Chapter 13: Setting marketing objectives
Chapter 14: Understanding markets
Chapter 15: Market research and sampling
Chapter 16: The interpretation of marketing data
Chapter 17: Price and income elasticity of demand
Chapter 18: Market data and analysis
Chapter 19: Segmentation, targeting and positioning
Chapter 20: Niche and mass marketing
Chapter 21: Marketing mix: 7Ps
Chapter 22: Product decisions: product life cycle and product portfolio
Chapter 23: Pricing decisions
Chapter 24: Place and promotion decisions
Chapter 25: Integrating the marketing mix
Section 4: Decision-making to improve operational performance
Chapter 26: Setting operational objectives
Chapter 27: Efficiency and labour productivity
Chapter 28: Lean production
Chapter 29: Capacity utilisation
Chapter 30: Technology and operational efficiency
Chapter 31: Analysing operational performance
Chapter 32: Improving quality
Chapter 33: Managing supply chains
Chapter 34: Managing inventory
Chapter 35: Decision-making to improve operational performance
Section 5: Decision-making to improve financial performance
Chapter 36: Financial objectives
Chapter 37: Calculating revenue, costs and profit
Chapter 38: Break-even analysis
Chapter 39: Cash flow management
Chapter 40: Budgets and budgeting
Chapter 41: Profit and how to increase it
Chapter 42: Cash flow versus profit
Chapter 43: Sources of finance
Chapter 44: Decision-making to improve financial performance
Section 6: Decision-making to improve human resource performance
Chapter 45: Setting human resource objectives
Chapter 46: Motivation and engagement in theory
Chapter 47: Motivation and engagement in practice
Chapter 48: Improving organisational design
Chapter 49: Managing the human resource flow
Chapter 50: Improving employer-employee relations
Chapter 51: Analysing human resource performance
Chapter 52: Decision-making and improved HR performance
Chapter 1: Understanding the nature and purpose of business
Chapter 2: Different business forms
Chapter 3: Issues in understanding different business forms
Chapter 4: Understanding that businesses operate within an external environment
Section 2: Managers, leadership and decision-making
Chapter 5: What managers do
Chapter 6: Types of management and leadership styles and their effectiveness
Chapter 7: Understanding management decision-making
Chapter 8: Decision trees
Chapter 9: Opportunity cost
Chapter 10: Understanding the role and importance of stakeholders
Section 3: Decision-making to improve marketing performance
Chapter 11: Marketing and decision-making
Chapter 12: Marketing and competitiveness
Chapter 13: Setting marketing objectives
Chapter 14: Understanding markets
Chapter 15: Market research and sampling
Chapter 16: The interpretation of marketing data
Chapter 17: Price and income elasticity of demand
Chapter 18: Market data and analysis
Chapter 19: Segmentation, targeting and positioning
Chapter 20: Niche and mass marketing
Chapter 21: Marketing mix: 7Ps
Chapter 22: Product decisions: product life cycle and product portfolio
Chapter 23: Pricing decisions
Chapter 24: Place and promotion decisions
Chapter 25: Integrating the marketing mix
Section 4: Decision-making to improve operational performance
Chapter 26: Setting operational objectives
Chapter 27: Efficiency and labour productivity
Chapter 28: Lean production
Chapter 29: Capacity utilisation
Chapter 30: Technology and operational efficiency
Chapter 31: Analysing operational performance
Chapter 32: Improving quality
Chapter 33: Managing supply chains
Chapter 34: Managing inventory
Chapter 35: Decision-making to improve operational performance
Section 5: Decision-making to improve financial performance
Chapter 36: Financial objectives
Chapter 37: Calculating revenue, costs and profit
Chapter 38: Break-even analysis
Chapter 39: Cash flow management
Chapter 40: Budgets and budgeting
Chapter 41: Profit and how to increase it
Chapter 42: Cash flow versus profit
Chapter 43: Sources of finance
Chapter 44: Decision-making to improve financial performance
Section 6: Decision-making to improve human resource performance
Chapter 45: Setting human resource objectives
Chapter 46: Motivation and engagement in theory
Chapter 47: Motivation and engagement in practice
Chapter 48: Improving organisational design
Chapter 49: Managing the human resource flow
Chapter 50: Improving employer-employee relations
Chapter 51: Analysing human resource performance
Chapter 52: Decision-making and improved HR performance