Cash flow Clue-doh! The Mystery is Revealed…

Over 1,500 colleagues have now downloaded our cash-flow murder mystery activity - Cash Flow Clue-doh! And we’re getting an increasing number of enquiries asking what the solution is!

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Q&A - What is globalisation?

Globalisation is a process where an increased proportion of economic, social and cultural activity is carried out across national borders. The process of globalisation has significant economic, business and social implications.

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Q&A - What are the main causes of unemployment?

The causes of unemployment can be described under four main categories:
- Seasonal unemployment
- Frictional unemployment
- Structural unemployment
- Cyclical unemployment

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Q&A - What has happened to unemployment in the UK?

After a sustained period of falling unemployment and increasing employment, the recession in the UK has prompted a substantial increase in unemployment recently.

Managing Cash Flow - Beware the Economic Recovery

An excellent recent article in the ACCA magazine examines an interesting phenomenon - more businesses collapse at the beginning of a recovery than during the depths of a recession. Its all to do with working capital…

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Pigging Out in the Recession

Whitbread has a new restaurant format - Taybarns - that is doing incredibly well in the recession…

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What business students can learn from how businesses have handled the recession

The actions taken by successful businesses during the UK recession provide a rich source of guidance for students wishing to improve their analysis and evaluation skills. 

Revision Presentation - Business Cycle and Economic Growth

Here is a streamed revision presentation guides students through the topic of business cycles and economic growth.  It looks at issues such as:

- How economic growth is defined and measured
- The nature of the business cycle
- How different kinds of businesses are affected by the economic cycle
- The Credit Crunch

Launch streamed revision presentation on the Business Cycle and Economic Growth

V-Water - from start up to exit

The market space for enhanced water is getting crowded! Sales of ‘smoothies’ are down by more than fifty per cent this year but the volume of enhanced water bottles being bought is proving more resilient to the recession. And the growing amount of shelf space in the supermarket aisles given over to the likes of Firefly, Vitamin-Water, Just-Juice, Vitsmart and V-Water is testimony to the high margins these products generate. Chris Coleridge, co-Founder of V-Water gave a relaxed, entertaining and thoughtful presentation on the growth of his business to the Eton College Entrepreneurship Society on Thursday night. A large audience - fortified by a generous sample of the six flavoured drinks on offer - grilled Mr Coleridge on his business after he had taken time out to explode five myths about start-ups.

Demand is booming for UK Cinemas

When Tim Richards (VUE Cinema CEO) spoke to Business Teachers at the 2009 National Business Teacher Conference, he was pretty upbeat about prospects for the UK cinema industry.  Turns out Tim was right to be optimistic!