GCSE Business Studies coursework titles with sample answers

Accounting & Finance

• Performance measurement and rewards within organisations.
• Accounting Concepts and Conventions
• Costs, Profits and Break-even Analysis.
• Give an explanation of break-even analysis and explain how it supports the achievement of strategic aims and objectives.
• Explain two methods of Full Costing together with a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of each method.

Business, Companies and Organisation, Activity

• Types of business ownership.
• Monitoring customer service
• What is a Sole Trader?
• What do recent attempts to adopt 'partnership' approaches and practices suggest about the changing management priorities in industrial relations?
• Types Of Business.

Case Studies

• Retail merchandising
• British Airways case study
• Business Studies Case Study on a Music Industry (With Diagrams)
• Busines comparison between Tesco & Sainsburys
• Globalisation

Economy & Economics

• Examine the potential benefits to European manufactures and consumers of single European currency
• How Successful Was Nazi Economic Policy?
• It was suggested by Adam Smith in 1776 that individuals led by self interest, accidentally advance the interests of society.
• Do the advantages of economic and monetary union outweigh the disadvantages?
• The development strategies which have been adopted by India and China over the last 20 years.

Marketing and Markets

• Discuss the impact of consumer behavior on marketing decisions.
• Introduction to Marketing Research.
• With the rise of globalisation, what are the effects on Business 2 business organisations?
• Microsoft Analysis
• British Airways - Product strategy

People in Business

• The comparable differences in rewards and recognition between a corporation and a European Subsidiary (of a U.S. company) and start-up organisation.
• Human Resource Management - The advantages of pay-for-performance The introduction of individual pay for performance contributes to an improvement in a company's (financial) performance.
• McGregor -Theory X and Theory Y
• Identify the main types of organisational culture and discuss, with reference to a business you know or have worked for.
• The Human Resource as a whole is vital for any businesses that provide services or sell products but it is the effectiveness of management of all aspects of human resources