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Marketing

Aims of marketing department
Creating strategies that meet customer needs (the marketing mix)
Establishing customer needs
Information gathering and interpretation
International marketing
Market analysis and market planning
Market and product orientation
Market planning
Market research
Market research and development
Marketing and sales
Marketing and the business environment
Marketing and the law
Marketing mix (Price, Place, Promotion, Product)
Marketing model
Marketing strategy
Marketing techniques
Measuring customer satisfaction
Methods of analysing marketing opportunities
Nature and role of marketing
Overseas marketing
Product life cycle
Segmentation
The extended marketing mix (7Ps)
The market, its definition and structure
The marketing mix
The principles of marketing

People

Appraisal
Benefits of employer and employee co-operation
Communication
Communication, negotiation and consultation
Conflict at work
Consumer protection
Contemporary work patterns
Corporate and organisational culture
Customer satisfaction
Customer service
Customers and their expectations
Customers needs
Dealing with customers
Employee participation
Employer-employee relations
Employer/employee relations
Employment legislation
Health and safety
Human needs and rewards
Human resource management
Human resources
Human resources planning
Improving productivity
Investigating job roles
Management of change
Motivation
Motivation and leadership
Personnel functions
Protecting the customer
Recruitment and selection
Recruitment and training
Recruitment, selection and training
Remuneration, incentives, job satisfaction
Resolving disagreements
Rights and responsibilities of employers and employees
Rights of employees and employers
Roles in departments
Roles of people in organisations
Staff training and development
The importance of customer service
Trade unions
Trades unions
Training and development
Transfers and termination of employment
Unemployment
Working arrangements
Working together: business communications

Finance

Absorption and marginal costing
Accounting concepts
Accounting for decisions
Accounting functions
Accounting principles
Aims of finance department
Analysis of profitability, liquidity and performance
Banking services/Financial institutions
Budgeting
Budgeting and cash flow
Budgets and cash flow forecasts
Calculating costs of production
Calculating the break-even point
Calculating the profit or loss of a business
Cash Flow management
Classification of costs, profit, contribution and break-even analysis
Company accounts and interpretation
Constructing accounts
Contribution and break-even analysis
Cost and profit centres
Costing and profitability
Covering the costs of a new product
Economic conditions
Economic environment and change
Economic growth
Estimating the profit or loss of a business
Exchange rates
Finance
Financial advice, sources of credit and savings and investments
Financial analysis and planning
Financial and budgetary control
Financial information and decision making
Financial planning
Financial planning
Financial records and documents
Fixed, variable costs and break-even
Inflation
Insurance
Interpreting financial information
Investigating methods of making and receiving payments
Investment appraisal
Investment decisions
Methods of remuneration
Organisations that provide financial services
Planned, market and mixed economies
Products that can help you manage your personal finances
Profit and loss accounts and balance sheet
Profit and loss accounts, balance sheets
Recording financial information
Relationship between size, risk and profit
Sources and uses of finance
Sources of finance
The basic economic problem and opportunity cost
The flow of financial documents used in a business purchase
The importance of business accounts
The personal budget
Understanding a balance sheet
Use of personal income
Using a budget
Using a cash flow forecast

Operations

Aims and functions of production department
Chain of production
Constraints on production
Controlling operations
Demand and supply
Demand and supply for goods and services
Elasticity of demand
Facilities
Factors of production
Lean production
Methods of production
Operations
Production and quality
Production and resource requirements
Production process
Production technology
Production, specialisation and division of labour
Productive efficiency
Quality
Responsible production
Specialisation, trade and exchange
Stock control
Stock valuation and depreciation

Strategy

Aiding and controlling business activity
Aims and objectives
Business activity
Business communications
Business failure
Business location
Business objectives, planning and stakeholders
Business Ownership
Business plan
Business planning
Business strategy
Business structure
Capital investment and productivity
Control of business activity
Creating and evaluating your business plan
Criteria for judging success
Critical path analysis
Decision making and stakeholders
Decision tree analysis
Delegation and decentralisation
Developing a global strategy
Developing a plan (including external influences)
Devising and implementing strategy
Enterprise culture
Forecasting and business trends
Functional areas within the business
Growth
Growth
Growth and decline of businesses
Industrial sectors
Legal forms of business
Legal protection for customers
Location
Location of business
Location of production
Management structure and organisation
Measuring performance against objectives
Methods of growth, economies of scale
Methods of management
Needs and wants
Organisation and management structures
Organisational functions
Organisational structure
Organisational structures
Ownership
Performance management
Planning, controlling and reporting
Primary, secondary and tertiary activity
Public and private sectors
Ratio analysis
Ratio analysis
Reasons for regulating business activity
Research and development
Research and development
Resources and assistance for a business
Responding to social responsibilities and ethics
Setting aims and objectives
Support and advice to business
The formal and informal organisation structure
The impact of e-commerce on business activity
The organisation and change
The planning process
The structure of business
The use of IT
Trends in ownership and control
Types of businesses
Types of customer
Why customers are important

Environment

Business competitors
Business in the community
Competition
Constraints
Environmental constraints
External influences
External organisations
Government and EU influences on business activity
How businesses are affected by competition
How businesses are affected by government policy
How businesses are affected by international competitors
Influences on businesses
International issues
International trade
Legislation
Monopolies, mergers and restrictive practices
Multinational business
Opportunities and constraints in the business environment
PEST analysis
SLEPT analysis
Social and other opportunities and constraints
Technology
The external environment

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