AQA Business Studies Unit 3 Thread - Thurs Jan 26th 2012

I'm extremely behind on revision for this exam.

Gonna go full throttle from Monday. 4-5 hours a day.

Mind if I join you? :P
I am soo behind in this exam

I realllllyyyy hope that a finance question doesn't come up or if it did I'd like it to be using the formulas given at the start of the exam. I'm not too keen with operations but HRM and marketing I'm fine with.

I'm gonna try make a list of everything I know in the course:

Finance - balance sheets, income statements, objects (SMART, internal influences, external - PESTLE) financial ratios, investment appraisal, financial strategies (profit centres, cost minimisation, allocating capital expenditure.

Human resources - objectives (SMART, internal influences, external), strategies (hard, soft, workforce planning, centralisation, decentralisation, tall, flat structures, delegation, flexible workforce, out-sourcing, home working employees) employee/employer relations, solving disputes.

Marketing - objectives - same as above, business analysis, quantitive forecasting, strategies (Ansoff's matrix, Porter's generic, expansion into international markets(exporting, setting of over seas base, joint ventures, franchising, licensing) globalisation, market plan)

Operations - objectives, methods of production, economies of scale/diseconomies, innovation, lean, scale and resource mix.

That's a pretty good list, if you know all that you should be fine. I'm nervous for this exam too, not really sure how to revise once you're fine with the content - any ideas?