Diploma del Bachillerato Internacional · IB Diploma
Business Management · HL
Papers, samples and curriculum documents for this course. · Papeles, muestras y documentos curriculares para este curso.
Handouts, exercise sheets and slides
Shared topic documents retain their source course and topic titles. Use your chosen board’s specification for coverage, tier and exam requirements.
Handouts · Material de apoyo · A-Level Business · A-Level Empresa (10)
- 1. Business and its environment · 1. Empresa y su entorno
- 2. Human resource management · 2. Gestión de recursos humanos
- 3. Marketing
- 4. Operations management · 4. Gestión de operaciones
- 5. Finance and accounting · 5. Finanzas y contabilidad
- 6. Business and its environment (A Level) · 6. Empresa y su entorno (A Level)
- 7. Human resource management (A Level) · 7. Gestión de recursos humanos (A Level)
- 8. Marketing (A Level) · 8. Marketing (Nivel A)
- 9. Operations management (A Level) · 9. Gestión de operaciones (Nivel A)
- 10. Finance and accounting (A Level) · 10. Finanzas y contabilidad (Nivel A)
Exercise sheets · Hojas de ejercicios · A-Level Business · A-Level Empresa (34)
- 1.1 Enterprise · 1.1 Empresas
- 1.2 Business structure · 1.2 Estructura empresarial
- 1.3 Size of business · 1.3 Tamaño de la empresa
- 1.4 Business objectives · 1.4 Objetivos empresariales
- 1.5 Stakeholders in a business · 1.5 Partes interesadas en un negocio
- 2.1 Human resource management · 2.1 Gestión de recursos humanos
- 2.2 Motivation · 2.2 Motivación
- 2.3 Management · 2.3 Gestión
- 3.1 The nature of marketing · 3.1 La naturaleza del marketing
- 3.2 Market research · 3.2 Investigación de mercado
- 3.3 The marketing mix · 3.3 La mezcla de marketing
- 4.1 The nature of operations · 4.1 La naturaleza de las operaciones
- 4.2 Inventory management · 4.2 Gestión de inventarios
- 4.3 Capacity utilisation and outsourcing · 4.3 Utilización de la capacidad y subcontratación
- 5.1 Business finance · 5.1 Finanzas empresariales
- 5.2 Sources of finance · 5.2 Fuentes de financiación
- 5.3 Forecasting and managing cash flows · 5.3 Pronóstico y gestión de flujos de efectivo
- 5.4 Costs · 5.4 Costos
- 5.5 Budgets · 5.5 Presupuestos
- 6.1 External influences on business activity · 6.1 Influencias externas sobre la actividad empresarial
- 6.2 Business strategy · 6.2 Estrategia empresarial
- 7.1 Organisational structure · 7.1 Estructura organizativa
- 7.2 Business communication · 7.2 Comunicación empresarial
- 7.3 Leadership · 7.3 Liderazgo
- 7.4 Human resource management strategy · 7.4 Estrategia de gestión de recursos humanos
- 8.1 Marketing analysis · 8.1 Análisis de marketing
- 8.2 Marketing strategy · 8.2 Estrategia de marketing
- 9.1 Location and scale · 9.1 Ubicación y escala
- 9.2 Quality management · 9.2 Gestión de la calidad
- 9.3 Operations strategy · 9.3 Estrategia operativa
- 10.1 Financial statements · 10.1 Estados financieros
- 10.2 Analysis of published accounts · 10.2 Análisis de cuentas públicas
- 10.3 Investment appraisal · 10.3 Evaluación de inversiones
- 10.4 Finance and accounting strategy · 10.4 Estrategia de finanzas y contabilidad
Presentation slides · Diapositivas de presentación · A-Level Business · A-Level Empresa (10)
- 1. Business and its environment · 1. Empresa y su entorno
- 2. Human resource management · 2. Gestión de recursos humanos
- 3. Marketing
- 4. Operations management · 4. Gestión de operaciones
- 5. Finance and accounting · 5. Finanzas y contabilidad
- 6. Business and its environment (A Level) · 6. Empresa y su entorno (A Level)
- 7. Human resource management (A Level) · 7. Gestión de recursos humanos (A Level)
- 8. Marketing (A Level) · 8. Marketing (Nivel A)
- 9. Operations management (A Level) · 9. Gestión de operaciones (Nivel A)
- 10. Finance and accounting (A Level) · 10. Finanzas y contabilidad (Nivel A)
Course units and learning goals · Unidades del curso y objetivos de aprendizaje
These lessons teach selected course objectives. Check the remaining coverage gaps; the material is not a complete preparation programme. · Estas lecciones enseñan objetivos del curso seleccionados. Revisa los vacíos de cobertura restantes; el material no es un programa completo de preparación.
1 · Business organization and stakeholders
- Compare entities, objectives, growth and multinational operations
- Evaluate stakeholder conflicts through the course concepts
- stakeholder
- A person or group affected by a business decision.
- limited liability
- Owners' financial loss is limited to their investment under the legal arrangement.
2 · Human resources and motivation
- Explain structure, leadership, motivation and communication
- Evaluate HR choices in a particular business context
- delegation
- Passing authority for a task to another person.
- motivation
- Forces that influence effort and persistence toward a goal.
3 · Finance, accounts and appraisal
- Calculate and interpret costs, revenue, profit, liquidity and cash flow
- Compare finance and investment appraisal using assumptions
- cash flow
- Cash receipts and payments over a period.
- liquidity
- Ability to meet short-term financial obligations.
4 · Marketing decisions
- Use segmentation, targeting, positioning, research and the seven Ps
- Evaluate ethical and international marketing choices
- segmentation
- Dividing a market into groups with similar needs.
- primary research
- Data collected directly for the current research purpose.
5 · Operations and break-even decisions
- Compare production methods and location factors
- Calculate break-even and evaluate operational choices
- contribution
- Selling price per unit minus variable cost per unit.
- margin of safety
- Actual or forecast output above break-even output.
HL toolkit/P3 · Social-enterprise action planning
- Synthesize resources into a feasible strategic plan
- Evaluate finance, operations and stakeholder outcomes over time
- social enterprise
- A trading organization with a social purpose.
- contingency plan
- A prepared response to a possible disruption.
Preparing for this qualification · Preparación para esta cualificación
- SL: Paper 1 90 min 35%, Paper 2 90 min 35%, research project 30%. HL: Paper 1 90 min 25%, Paper 2 105 min 30%, social-enterprise Paper 3 75 min 25%, research project 20%.
- Business research project investigates one real organization through a conceptual lens. The toolkit and change, creativity, ethics and sustainability connect units; HL-only topics remain marked.
Teaching coverage still needed · Cobertura docente aún necesaria
- Full guide and toolkit list needed for granular SL/HL objectives; dedicated HL culture, relations, forecasting, quality, planning, R&D and MIS lessons still required.
- Reviewed runtime bank remains unavailable; no practice registry promotion.
Specifications and sample documents · Especificaciones y documentos de muestra
- Business Management — Subject brief · 2024 ↗
First assessment: 2024
Course materials · Materiales del curso
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Course preparation · Preparación del curso
Documents are available. Board-specific notes, assessments and interactive past-paper practice are not yet available for every course. · Los documentos están disponibles. Las notas específicas de la entidad evaluadora, las evaluaciones y la práctica interactiva deantiguos exámenes no están disponibles aún para todos los cursos.
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