Managing Business Activities (Theme 2) Edexcel A Level Business notes

About These Notes

These notes cover the entire theme 2 of Edexcel A Level Business – Managing business activities. These notes are very clearly written using multiple text colours to differentiate separate headings and contents. Some graphs and graphics are used to represent some of the major concepts described. All the headings and subheadings are noted to easily divide the contents.

Covered topics include:

• 2.1 Raising Finance
  • 2.1.1 Internal Finance
  • 2.1.2 External finance
  • 2.1.3 Liability
  • 2.1.4 Planning
• 2.2 Financial Planning
  • 2.2.1 Sales Forecasting
  • 2.2.2 Sales, Revenue and Costs
  • 2.2.3 Breakeven
  • 2.2.4 Budgets
• 2.3 Managing Finance
  • 2.3.1 Profit
  • 2.3.2 Liquidity
  • 2.3.3 Business Failure
• 2.4 Resource Management
  • 2.4.1 Production, Productivity and Efficiency
  • 2.4.2 Capacity Utilisation
  • 2.4.3 Stock Control
  • 2.4.4 Quality Management
• 2.5 External Influences
  • 2.5.1 Economic Influences
  • 2.5.2 Legislation
  • 2.5.3 The Competitive Environment