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A Level
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Up to 2 years
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A Level
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This International A Level Business Course with Edexcel will help you develop an enthusiasm for studying business and allow you to gain a holistic understanding of business in a range of contexts.
You will develop a critical understanding of organisations and their ability to meet society’s needs and wants.
You will acquire a range of relevant business and generic skills, including decision making, problem solving, the challenging of assumptions and critical analysis.
The skills you gain from A’ Level Business will allow you to go into Industries as diverse as chemicals, utilities, fashion, health, grocery and construction. All these require managers with a clear understanding of systems, efficiency and operational issues.
If you are looking to progress onto University, students in the past have taken subjects in marketing, finance, human resources, computing/ICT and international business management.
For more information about the Pearson Edexcel exam board, please click here.
There are no previous entry requirements for this course, however students are expected to have a reasonable standard of literacy.
You have the freedom to start the course at any time and continue your studies at your own pace for a period of up to 24 months from initial registration with the full support of your Tutor.
The Full A Level has four topics you will need to cover (IAS and IA2). The AS Level has two topics and these are all listed below.
Meeting customer needs
1 The market
2 Market research
3 Market positioning
The market
1 Demand
2 Supply
3 Markets
4 Price elasticity of demand (PED)
5 Income elasticity of demand (YED)
Marketing mix and strategy
1 Marketing objectives and strategy
2 Product/service design
3 Promotion and branding
4 Pricing strategies
5 Distribution
Managing people
1 Approaches to staffing
2 Recruitment, selection and training
3 Organisational design
4 Motivation in theory and practice
5 Leadership
Entrepreneurs and leaders
1 Role of an entrepreneur
2 Entrepreneurial motives and characteristics
3 Business objectives
4 Business choices
Planning a business and raising finance
1 Planning
2 Internal finance
3 External finance
4 Forms of business
5 Liability
Financial planning
1 Sales, revenue and costs
2 Sales forecasting
3 Break-even
4 Cash flow
5 Budgets
Managing finance
1 Profit
2 Liquidity
3 Business failure
Resource management
1 Production, productivity and efficiency
2 Capacity utilisation
3 Inventory control
4 Quality management
External influences
1 Economic influences
2 Legislation
3 The competitive environment
Business objectives and strategy
1 Corporate objectives
2 Theories of corporate strategy
3 SWOT analysis
4 Impact of external influences
Business growth
1 Growth
2 Organic growth
3 Inorganic growth
4 Problems arising from growth
Decision-making techniques
1 Quantitative sales forecasting
2 Investment appraisal
3 Decision trees
4 Critical path analysis
5 Contribution
Influences on business decisions
1 Corporate culture
2 Stakeholder model versus shareholder model
3 Business ethics
Assessing competitiveness
1 Interpretation of financial statements
2 Ratio analysis
3 Human resources
Managing change
1 Key factors in change
2 Contingency planning
Globalisation
1 Growing economies
2 International trade and business growth
3 Factors contributing to increased globalisation
4 Protectionism
5 Trading blocs
Global markets and business expansion
1 Conditions that prompt trade
2 Assessment of a country as a market
3 Assessment of a country as a production location
4 Reasons for global mergers, takeovers or joint ventures
5 Global expansion and uncertainty
Global marketing
1 Marketing
2 Niche markets
3 Cultural/social factors
Global industries and companies (multinational corporations)
1 The impact of MNCs
2 International business ethics
3 Controlling MNCs
Students will be required to arrange and pay for their examinations at an Edexcel approved centre. We can provide an extensive list of these centres for you.
A Level Exams
There are four exams for the full A Level qualification. The length of each exam is as follows:
Paper 1 – 2 hours
Paper 2 – 2 hours
Paper 3 – 2 hours
Paper 4 – 2 hours
AS Level Exams
There are two exams for the AS Level qualification. The length of each exam is as follows:
Paper 1 – 2 hours
Paper 2 – 2 hours
For Edexcel International AS & A Level Business, learners can:
take Papers 1 and 2 only (for the Edexcel International AS Level qualification) or
follow a staged assessment route by taking Papers 1 and 2 (for the Edexcel International AS Level qualification) in one series, then Papers 3 and 4 (for the Edexcel International A Level qualification) in a later series or
take Papers 1, 2, 3 and 4 in the same examination series, leading to the full Edexcel International A Level.
On successful completion of all your exams for the A Level Business Online Course, you will be awarded one of the following qualifications:
International A Level in Business with Pearson Edexcel | International AS Level in Business with Pearson Edexcel
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Our Enrolment fee for this course is noted at the top of this page where you can enrol directly onto the course. This fee includes access to your course including tutor support for 2 years.
Our enrolment fee includes:
The only other fee you will need to pay is for your exams which is due approximately six months prior and this will be paid directly to the exam centre.
You can enrol online right now by Card or PayPal (Visa, Mastercard, Maestro and American Express). Alternatively, we also accept BACS transfer or we can send you a payment link.
Your A Level course will be online. You will access it via our online portal.
With our courses, we have learners from all over the world enrolled. Therefore, if we restricted your learning to certain times, not everyone would be available. All our courses are accessible 24/7 via our online secure portal. Any videos on your portal would be pre-recorded meaning you can work through your course at your own pace.
By opting for our International A Level, you can study the course from anywhere and exam centres are located all over the world. With our UK A Levels (AQA), you can study them from outside of the UK, however you would need to sit the actual exams for these within the UK.
You will be provided with eBooks for this course. If you want to purchase physical books in addition, then we can provide you with the book ISBN numbers.
The Guided learning hours for A Levels are as follows:-
AS Level: 180 hours
A Level: 360 hours
These figures are for guidance only. The number of hours needed to gain the qualification may vary depending on your previous experience of the subject.
Yes you will gain UCAS points and these depend on your final grade once you have completed your exams.
If you are referring to A Levels at college then yes!
You will sit the same exam as thousands of students across the world in an exam centre, and achieve the same qualification as everyone else.
Provided you have completed enough work on the course within a reasonable amount of time, we will be able to provide a predicted grade / reference for university.
Please provide at least 3 months notice for this, otherwise this will incur a small fee.
We want exams to be as competitively priced for our learners as possible and therefore that is why we direct them to the examination centres rather than charge upfront fees.
