Business
OCR Courses H031 and H431
AS level sat at end of Year 1 (2 external exams), but students continuing to the full A level will be re-examined at the end of the second year (3 external exams)
Year 1 (AS Level) – H031
Considers smaller, predominantly UK based firms and how they operate in their local and national environment
- Introduction to Business
- Business Objectives and Strategy
- External Influences
- Accounting and Finance within a Business Environment
- Human Resource Management within a Business Environment
- Marketing within a Business Environment
- The Production Process
Year 2 (A level) – H431
This will include further development of the topics below, look at the bigger (more strategic) angle and considers how firms compete in the global environment
- Introduction to Business
- Includes franchises
- Business Objectives and Strategy
- Includes corporate social responsibility and contingency planning
- External Influences
- Includes emerging markets and the global environment
- Change
- Causes of change and managing change
- Accounting and Finance within a Business Environment
- Including accounting concepts, detailed ratio analysis
- Human Resource Management within a Business Environment
- Including workforce planning, communication and functions of management
- Marketing within a Business Environment
- Including strategic marketing models
- The Production Process
- Including the production process and operational strategy
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