International Baccalaureate · IB Diploma
Business Management · HL
Papers, samples and curriculum documents for this course. · Papers, amostras e documentos curriculares deste curso.
Handouts, exercise sheets and slides
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Handouts · Material de apoio · A-Level Business · Negócios do A-Level (10)
- 1. Business and its environment · 1. Negócios e seu ambiente
- 2. Human resource management · 2. Gestão de recursos humanos
- 3. Marketing
- 4. Operations management · 4. Gestão de operações
- 5. Finance and accounting · 5. Finanças e contabilidade
- 6. Business and its environment (A Level) · 6. Negócios e seu ambiente (Nível A)
- 7. Human resource management (A Level) · 7. Gestão de recursos humanos (Nível A)
- 8. Marketing (A Level) · 8. Marketing (Nível A)
- 9. Operations management (A Level) · 9. Gestão de operações (Nível A)
- 10. Finance and accounting (A Level) · 10. Finanças e contabilidade (Nível A)
Exercise sheets · Folhas de exercícios · A-Level Business · Negócios do A-Level (34)
- 1.1 Enterprise · 1.1 Empreendimento
- 1.2 Business structure · 1.2 Estrutura de negócios
- 1.3 Size of business · 1.3 Tamanho de negócios
- 1.4 Business objectives · 1.4 Objetivos empresariais
- 1.5 Stakeholders in a business · 1.5 Partes interessadas em uma empresa
- 2.1 Human resource management · 2.1 Gestão de recursos humanos
- 2.2 Motivation · 2.2 Motivação
- 2.3 Management · 2.3 Gestão
- 3.1 The nature of marketing · 3.1 A natureza do marketing
- 3.2 Market research · 3.2 Pesquisa de mercado
- 3.3 The marketing mix · 3.3 O mix de marketing
- 4.1 The nature of operations · 4.1 A natureza das operações
- 4.2 Inventory management · 4.2 Gestão de inventários
- 4.3 Capacity utilisation and outsourcing · 4.3 Utilização da capacidade e terceirização
- 5.1 Business finance · 5.1 Finanças empresariais
- 5.2 Sources of finance · 5.2 Fontes de financiamento
- 5.3 Forecasting and managing cash flows · 5.3 Previsão e gestão de fluxos de caixa
- 5.4 Costs · 5.4 Custos
- 5.5 Budgets · 5.5 Orçamentos
- 6.1 External influences on business activity · 6.1 Influências externas sobre a atividade empresarial
- 6.2 Business strategy · 6.2 Estratégia empresarial
- 7.1 Organisational structure · 7.1 Estrutura organizacional
- 7.2 Business communication · 7.2 Comunicação empresarial
- 7.3 Leadership · 7.3 Liderança
- 7.4 Human resource management strategy · 7.4 Estratégia de gestão de recursos humanos
- 8.1 Marketing analysis · 8.1 Análise de marketing
- 8.2 Marketing strategy · 8.2 Estratégia de marketing
- 9.1 Location and scale · 9.1 Localização e escala
- 9.2 Quality management · 9.2 Gestão da qualidade
- 9.3 Operations strategy · 9.3 Estratégia de operações
- 10.1 Financial statements · 10.1 Demonstrações financeiras
- 10.2 Analysis of published accounts · 10.2 Análise de contas publicadas
- 10.3 Investment appraisal · 10.3 Avaliação de investimentos
- 10.4 Finance and accounting strategy · 10.4 Estratégia financeira e contábil
Presentation slides · Slides de apresentação · A-Level Business · Negócios do A-Level (10)
- 1. Business and its environment · 1. Negócios e seu ambiente
- 2. Human resource management · 2. Gestão de recursos humanos
- 3. Marketing
- 4. Operations management · 4. Gestão de operações
- 5. Finance and accounting · 5. Finanças e contabilidade
- 6. Business and its environment (A Level) · 6. Negócios e seu ambiente (Nível A)
- 7. Human resource management (A Level) · 7. Gestão de recursos humanos (Nível A)
- 8. Marketing (A Level) · 8. Marketing (Nível A)
- 9. Operations management (A Level) · 9. Gestão de operações (Nível A)
- 10. Finance and accounting (A Level) · 10. Finanças e contabilidade (Nível A)
Course units and learning goals · Unidades do curso e objetivos de aprendizagem
These lessons teach selected course objectives. Check the remaining coverage gaps; the material is not a complete preparation programme. · Estas aulas ensinam objetivos selecionados do curso. Verifique as lacunas de cobertura restantes; o material não é um programa completo de preparação.
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 · Preparação para esta qualificação
- 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 do ensino ainda necessária
- 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 · Especificações e documentos de exemplo
- Business Management — Subject brief · 2024 ↗
First assessment: 2024
Course materials · Materiais do curso
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- Revision questions · Questões de revisão →
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Course preparation · Preparação do curso
Documents are available. Board-specific notes, assessments and interactive past-paper practice are not yet available for every course. · Os documentos estão disponíveis. Notas específicas da banca, avaliações e prática interativa de provas anteriores ainda não estão disponíveis para todos os cursos.
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