A Level Business (AQA)

A Level Business (AQA)

Easter Revision Course Dates 2027

Week 1: Monday 22 March – Friday 26 March 2027
Week 2: Monday 29 March – Friday 2 April 2027
Week 3: Monday 5 April – Friday 9 April 2027

Please note: Easter Revision classes WILL take place on Good Friday (26 March) and Easter Monday (29 March).

Boards

AQA 2310 or AQA 7137

Length of Course

Five full days, 40 hours total.

AQA 2310

This revision course, like previous courses, is intended to reinforce individual areas of weakness and to focus heavily on exam practice to develop the techniques necessary to produce high exam scores. The following course outlines can be varied in line with the requirements of a particular student cohort.

1 – What is Business? Managers, Leadership and Decision Making (AS):
Common Objectives, business forms, external environment, leadership, decision making, stakeholders.

2 – Decision Making to Improve Marketing Performance (AS):
Marketing objectives, understanding markets, positioning, marketing mix.

3 – Decision Making to Improve Operational Performance (AS):
Operational objectives, operational performance, efficiency and productivity, improving quality, inventory and supply chains.

4 – Decision Making to Improve Financial Performance (AS):
Setting financial objectives, analysing financial objectives, sources of finance, improving cash flow.

5 – Decision Making to Improve Human Resource Performance (AS):
Setting HR objectives, analysing HR performance, improving organisation, motivation, employee relations.

6 – Analysing the Strategic Position of a Business (2nd Year):
Mission, corporate objectives and strategy, internal/external position, external opportunities and threats, the competitive environment.

7 – Ratio Analysis and Investment Appraisal (2nd Year):
Key Ratios, Quantitative measure, Payback, NPV, ARR.

8 – Choosing Strategic Direction (2nd Year):
Strategic direction, strategic positioning, markets and products.

9 – Strategic Methods: How to Pursue Strategies (2nd Year):
Change in scale, innovation, internationalisation, digital technology.

10 – Managing Strategic Change (2nd Year):
Managing change, Organisational culture. Strategic implementation, problems with strategy and why they fail.

AQA 7137

This revision course, like previous courses, is intended to reinforce individual areas of weakness and to focus heavily on exam practice to develop the techniques necessary to produce high exam scores. The following course outlines can be varied in line with the requirements of a particular student cohort.

1 – Business and Objectives; Forms of business and stakeholders
2 – Marketing management:
Marketing objectives, marketing data, anticipating customer needs, demand, target market and marketing mix (4 P’s).
3 – Financial management:
Managing finance, sources of finance, break-even, profit, budgets, cash flow and liquidity.
4 – Operations management:
Managing operations, operations data, efficiency, quality, supply chain management, inventory management, scale of operations and innovation.
5 – People management:
HR objectives and data, organisational design, leadership, developing people, teamwork, motivation and employer and employee relations.