AQA A-Level Business (7138)
Complete AQA A-Level Business 7138 course (first teach Sept 2026, first exam summer 2028). 8 courses aligned to the 3-Unit paper structure: Paper 1 (Unit 3.1) — What is Business, Marketing, Finance; Paper 2 (Unit 3.2) — People, Operations; Paper 3 (Unit 3.3) — Business and Society, Strategy and Change; plus dedicated exam-technique training for the 6/9/15-mark Analyse/Assess/Evaluate tariffs and sophisticated-concept Top-band requirement.
AQA A-Level Business — What is Business?
Foundations of AQA A-Level Business 7138 Unit 3.1.1 + 3.1.2: business and objectives, forms of business and stakeholders, market capitalisation and share-price metrics, and the stakeholder vs shareholder debate. Builds the conceptual base for Paper 1.
AQA A-Level Business — Marketing Management
AQA A-Level Business 7138 Unit 3.1.3 — Marketing Management. Marketing objectives, market research and analytics, segmentation and the 7Ps mix, plus contemporary themes: AI in marketing, influencer marketing, CRM, personal selling. Assessed in Paper 1.
AQA A-Level Business — People Management and Business Culture
AQA A-Level Business 7138 Units 3.2.1 People Management and 3.2.3 Managing Business Culture. People objectives, workforce planning, leadership and motivation (Taylor, Maslow, Herzberg), employee wellbeing, flexible working, equality / diversity / belonging / inclusion, business culture and culture change. Assessed in Paper 2.
AQA A-Level Business — Operations Management
AQA A-Level Business 7138 Unit 3.2.2 — Operations Management. Operational objectives and KPIs, capacity utilisation, lean production, quality management, inventory and supply-chain strategy, supply-chain transparency and ESG reporting in operations. Assessed in Paper 2.
AQA A-Level Business — Financial Management
AQA A-Level Business 7138 Unit 3.1.4 — Financial Management. Financial objectives, cash flow vs profit, budgets and variance analysis, break-even and contribution, profitability/liquidity/efficiency ratios, sources of finance, and ethical dimensions of financial decisions. Assessed in Paper 1.
AQA A-Level Business — Business and Society, and the External Environment
AQA A-Level Business 7138 Units 3.3.1 Business and Society and 3.3.2 Business and the External Environment. ESG reporting, CSR (Carroll), Triple Bottom Line, sustainability, greenwashing, political / legal / economic / social / technological / competitive environment, international trade. Assessed in Paper 3.
AQA A-Level Business — Strategy and Change
AQA A-Level Business 7138 Units 3.3.3 Strategy and 3.3.4 Change. Ansoff, Porter Five Forces, Porter generic strategies, investment appraisal (Payback, ARR, NPV), growth methods and M&A, innovation, globalisation, Lewin force-field, Kotter and Schlesinger, strategic drift, AI in strategy. Assessed in Paper 3 — synoptic across the whole course.
AQA A-Level Business — Exam Technique (7138)
AQA A-Level Business 7138 cross-cutting exam technique: 3-paper structure, four AOs (AO1 24.44%, AO2 24.44%, AO3 26.66%, AO4 24.44%), 6/9/15-mark Analyse/Assess/Evaluate tariff, synoptic assessment across Papers 2 and 3, and the sophisticated-concepts (Annex 8) Top-band requirement.
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