Revision Presentation - Improving Cash Flow
What are the causes of cash flow problems and how can a business manage its cash flow more effectively? This updated revision presentation looks at those questions, covering topics such as the basics of working capital management, bank finance, factoring, sale and leaseback and sale of assets.
read more...»Revision Presentation - Using Budgets
This updated revision presentation looks at the essentials of using budgets. It considers the role played by budgeting and explains the nature and use of variance analysis…
read more...»Revision Presentation - Income Statement Basics
This revision presentation outlines the basic structure of the income statement and also explains the meaning of “profit quality”
read more...»Revision Presentation - Cost Minimisation
This brief revision presentation outlines the purpose and practice of cost minimisation as a financial strategy.
read more...»Revision Presentation - Operational Objectives
An introductory revision presentation looking at the key operational objectives set by businesses. These include cost and volume targets, quality, efficiency and environmental.
read more...»Revision Presentation - Economies of Scale & Resource Mix
This revision presentation looks at the operational issue of business scale. What are economies of scale and should a business adopt a capital or labour intensive business model?
read more...»Revision Presentation - Critical Path Analysis
This new revision presentation provides an overview of CPA - critical path analysis. CPA is a technique widely used in management of complex projects and is also associated with lean production.
read more...»Revision Presentation - Business Location
This new revision presentation provides an overview of the factors that a business considers in choosing its business location. The presentation also considers issues such as multi-site location, industrial inertia and locating a business overseas (offshoring).
read more...»Revision Presentation - Lean Production
A common challenge for manufacturing and service businesses alike is to maxmise product quality whilst minimising product costs. Lean production methods provide opportunities to meet this challenge, but they are not without their drawnbacks, as explained in this revision presentation.
read more...»Revision Presentation - Mission Statements
This new revision presentation provides an introduction to the concept of mission statements and explains how they fit into the hierarchy of business aims and objectives.
read more...»Revision Presentation - Corporate and Functional Objectives
In this new revision presentation, we provide an overview of the hierarchy of business objectives. In particular, we distinguish between corporate objectives (what the business as a whole want to achieve) and functional objectives (what each individual function in the business is required to achieve).
read more...»Revision Presentation - Workforce Planning
This revision presentation examines the task and role of workforce planning. It considers the internal and external influences affecting the workforce planning activities of a business. It also looks at how a business might respond to a labour shortage or to an excess of labour.
read more...»Revision Presentation - Market Mapping
To improve its chances of success, a new business needs to take care positioning its product in the market. That involves market research, segmentation and a process some call “market mapping”...
read more...»Revision Presentation - Understanding Customer Needs
A new business needs to have an effective understanding of the needs and wants of customers in its target market segment. This revision presentation outlines the main methods of market research that a startup can use to identify those customer needs.
read more...»Revision Presentation - Risks and Rewards to Enterprise
Entrepreneurs taking calculated risks expect to enjoy suitable rewards for their endeavour. But what are these risks and rewards? And how can an entrepreneur minimise risk? This updated revision presentation provides an overview…
read more...»Revision Presentation - Adding Value
This revision presentation examines the concept of adding value - the ways in which a business can achieve revenues that are higher than the cost of the inputs into the production or operations process.
read more...»Revision Presentation - Objectives of New Businesses
This updated revision presentation looks at the different objectives that might be set by the entrepreneurs when they set up a new business…
read more...»Revision Presentation - Enterprise Skills
In this revision presentation, we outline the key skills demonstrated by successful entrepreneurs….
read more...»Revision Presentation - What is a Business?
This revision presentation asks a simple, but fundamental question - what is a business?
read more...»Business Studies Revision Presentations
There is a host of revision presentations on our web site focused on key parts of business studies courses - if you click on the links below you can access many of them - they are listed in alphabetical order
Revision Presentation - Balance Sheet Basics
The basic structure and content of a balance sheet is explained in this revision presentation:
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Revision Presentation - Profit and Cash
Profits are not quite the same as cash flow in most businesses - though they are often close. Students often get confused between the two. This revision presentation outlines the essential differences.
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Revision Presentation - Improving Profit
What options are available to a business that wants to improve its profitability? Should the business focus on revenue, costs or a combination of both?
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Revision Presentation - Measuring Profit
This revision presentation provides an introduction to the measurement and interpretation of profit, focusing on the net profit margin and return on capital.
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Revision presentation - labour productivity
This revision resource looks at how labour productivity can be measured and managed.
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Revision presentation - motivation in theory
The key theories of how to motivate employees are outlined in this revision presentation
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Revision presentation - motivation in practice
How do businesses use financial and non-financial methods to motivate their employees? This revision resource looks at the basics of motivation in practice.
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Revision presentation - recruitment & selection
The basics of the recruitment and selection process for a business are covered in this revision presentation. We look at the recruitment process; the methods of internal & external recruitment; the role of job and person specifications and descriptions; the role of outside agencies in recruitment.
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Revision presentation - Workforce roles
This revision resource introduces the key business roles of directors, managers, supervisors etc
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Revision Presentation - Introduction to Communication
An introductory revision presentation on communication in business here.
