AQA AS Business Exam Questions By Topic

Why Businesses Exist, Business Objectives, The Importance of Profit

Private Sector Businesses: Sole Traders, Private Sector Businesses: Companies, The Public Sector, Non-Profit Organisations and Social Enterprises, Shares and Shareholders

Competition and Market Conditions, Household Incomes, Interest Rates, Demographic Factors, Environmental Issues and Fair Trade

Managers versus Leaders, Leadership Styles, Comparing Leadership Styles

Management and Decision-making, Scientific Decision Making, Decision Trees, Influences on Decision Making

Stakeholder Needs, Stakeholder Mapping, Managing Stakeholder Relationships

Setting Marketing Objectives

The Importance of Marketing Research, Primary Market Research, Secondary Market Research, Interpreting Marketing Data, Elasticity of Demand

Segmentation, Targeting and Positioning

Elements of the Marketing MIx, Product Decisions, Pricing Decisions, Promotional Decisions, Distribution Decisions, People, Process and the Physical Environment, An Integrated Marketing Mix

Operations Data

The Importance of Capacity, Efficiency and Productivity, Lean Production, Technology and Efficiency

Improving Quality

Matching Supply and Demand, Inventory Control, The Supply Chain

Setting Financial Objectives, Cash, Profit and Types of Profit

Budgeting, Cash Flow Forecasts, Analysing Timings of Cash Flow, Break-even Analysis, Calculating Break-even, Analysing Profitability

The need for Finance, Internal Sources of Finance, External Sources of Finance

Improving Cash Flow, Profits and Profitability

Calculating and Interpreting Human Resource data

Principles of Organisational Design, Models of Organisational Design, The Value of Changing Organisational Design

The Human Resource Plan, Recruitment, Training, Redeployment, Dismissal and Redundancy

Motivation and Motivation Theories

The Value of Good Working Relations, Trade Unions and Work Councils