As Business Studies Notes

Form 5

1. Types of Economic Systems: Introduction
   1. Command Economy/ Command Economic System/Planned Economic System:
      1. Advantages and disadvantages of a planned economy
   2. Free Market Economic System:
      1. Advantages and disadvantages of a free market economy
   3. Advantages and disadvantages of a free market economy
   4. Mixed Economy
2. Economic Philosophies: Introduction
   1. Capitalism
   2. Socialism
   3. Communism
   4. Indigenisation
3. Enterprising: Introduction:
4. The Internal and External Environment:
   1. SWOT Analysis
5. Multi-National Companies
6. Economic Integration
7. Business Stakeholders
8. Resources
9. Forms of Business Enterprises
10. Privatisation
11. Business Startups

Form 6

1. Enterprise constraints and ethical issues
2. Acquiring and sustainable use of resources

Form 5

1. Forms of business enterprise
2. Main features of business enterprises
3. Privatisation
4. Assistance to new enterprise start-ups

Form 6

1. Measurement of business size
2. Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs)
3. Survival and growth strategies of a business enterprise
4. Strategies of breaking into foreign markets

Form 5

1. Business enterprise objectives
2. Business plan
3. Designing and implementation of business plans
4. Enterprise project

Form 6

1. Managing growing business enterprise
2. Laws and regulations governing business enterprises
3. Start-up and operations
4. Enterprise project

Form 5

1. Enterprise finance
2. Sources of finance for an enterprise
3. Accounting concepts
4. Users of accounting information
5. Financial statements
6. Depreciation
7. Stock valuation

Form 6

1. Ratio analysis
2. Investment appraisal techniques
3. Decision Trees
4. Cost-Beneft Analysis (CBA)
5. Budgeting

Form 5

1. Management
2. Motivation
3. Leadership
4. Organizational structure
5. Communication in business enterprise

Form 6

1. Human Resource management(HRM)

Form 5

1. Purpose of marketing for an enterprise
2. Enterprise and markets
3. Demand concepts
4. Market research
5. Market segmentation
6. Marketing strategies

Form 6

1. Marketing mix
2. Product portfolio planning
3. E-business and the enterprise

Form 5

1. Nature of Production
2. Costing
3. Production and productivity
4. Production methods
5. Capital vs Labour intensity
6. Scale of operation

Form 6

1. Inventory management
2. Quality control and quality assurance
3. Critical Path Analysis
4. Work Study