ilearnfinance:
Basics, including conventions and limitations;
Balance Sheet: Layout; drag and drop test;
Cash Flow: Definition; Improving; Difference from profit; Structure; Random number test.
Depreciation
Profit and Loss Account: Layout explained; Structure analysed; drag and drop test.
Break Even: Interactive cost/revenue simulation; random number test
Ratios: Explanation and random number test; limitations;
Profit: Measuring; maximising; profit margin test; ROCE test
Sources of finance
Investment Appraisal: Overview; Calculation explained and tested; comparison of methods.
ilearnmarketing:
Elasticity: Animated explanation; Random number tests and explanations: price and income.
Supply and Demand – animation; Static explanation; Interactive simulation.
Market share/growth calculation; Degree of competition; Unfair competition; Types of market research; moving averages random number tests.
Marketing mix: General intro; place; pricing; promotion;
Marketing model (animated explanation); Segmentation. Integrated nature of marketing; product life cycle (animated) – includes effect on cash flow, Boston Matrix, extension strategies.
ilearnoperations:
Change – management of;
Capacity utilisation; cell production; Economies of scale – bulk buying, balanced teams, communication, co-ordination, financial, dimensions, indivisibility of capital, managerial, marketing, morale. (includes animation).
Job, batch and flow; JIT (animated). Matching output and demand; Operations Management defined; Production defined (animated).
Benchmarking; customer service.
Quality: Importance of; managing; standards including ISO 9002; TQM.
Startup: Business ideas, entrepreneurship, employing people, legal structure e.g. franchises.
Stock: Why hold it, types of, standard diagram (animation), optimum level (animation).
Strategy: Business plans, corporate plans, contingency planning, decision trees (random number tests), critical path analysis (random number tests), location.
Technology: Research and development, Technology and a) design, b) communication; automation.
ilearnpeople:
Communication: types, importance, reasons for failure, improving.
Organisation culture: Power, role, task.
Leadership styles: types and factors affecting choice.
Motivation: importance, theorists (Herzberg, Maslow, Mayo, Taylor, McGregor), Financial, non-financial.
Organisation structure: variation with size of firm, delayering, centralisation, flexibility, outsourcing, needs of organisation.
Human Resources: Collective bargaining, ACAS, no strike deals, recruitment, workforce planning.
ilearnexternal:
Business cycle (animated), exchange rates (animated), inflation, unemployment.
Fiscal policy (animated), monetary policy (animated), privatisation (animated).
European Union: CAP, Central Bank, Commission, Council of EU, Euro, Map, Parliament, Regional Fund, Social Fund.
Globalisation: Emerging Markets, implications, multinationals – pros and cons.
Social Environment: Ethics, environment, pressure groups, social costs, social issues;
Law: Competition, consumer, discrimination, employment, health and safety, industrial relations.
Strategy: Ansoff’s Matrix, Porter’s Five Forces model, SWOT.
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