International Baccalaureate · IB Diploma
Business Management · HL
Papers, samples and curriculum documents for this course.
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 · A-Level Business (10)
- 1. Business and its environment
- 2. Human resource management
- 3. Marketing
- 4. Operations management
- 5. Finance and accounting
- 6. Business and its environment (A Level)
- 7. Human resource management (A Level)
- 8. Marketing (A Level)
- 9. Operations management (A Level)
- 10. Finance and accounting (A Level)
Exercise sheets · A-Level Business (34)
- 1.1 Enterprise
- 1.2 Business structure
- 1.3 Size of business
- 1.4 Business objectives
- 1.5 Stakeholders in a business
- 2.1 Human resource management
- 2.2 Motivation
- 2.3 Management
- 3.1 The nature of marketing
- 3.2 Market research
- 3.3 The marketing mix
- 4.1 The nature of operations
- 4.2 Inventory management
- 4.3 Capacity utilisation and outsourcing
- 5.1 Business finance
- 5.2 Sources of finance
- 5.3 Forecasting and managing cash flows
- 5.4 Costs
- 5.5 Budgets
- 6.1 External influences on business activity
- 6.2 Business strategy
- 7.1 Organisational structure
- 7.2 Business communication
- 7.3 Leadership
- 7.4 Human resource management strategy
- 8.1 Marketing analysis
- 8.2 Marketing strategy
- 9.1 Location and scale
- 9.2 Quality management
- 9.3 Operations strategy
- 10.1 Financial statements
- 10.2 Analysis of published accounts
- 10.3 Investment appraisal
- 10.4 Finance and accounting strategy
Presentation slides · A-Level Business (10)
- 1. Business and its environment
- 2. Human resource management
- 3. Marketing
- 4. Operations management
- 5. Finance and accounting
- 6. Business and its environment (A Level)
- 7. Human resource management (A Level)
- 8. Marketing (A Level)
- 9. Operations management (A Level)
- 10. Finance and accounting (A Level)
Course units and learning goals
These lessons teach selected course objectives. Check the remaining coverage gaps; the material is not a complete preparation programme.
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
- 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
- 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
- Business Management — Subject brief · 2024 ↗
First assessment: 2024
Course materials
Course preparation
Documents are available. Board-specific notes, assessments and interactive past-paper practice are not yet available for every course.
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