Nuffield economics & business studies / Gerald Wood

Contents
Introduction
The AS Specification (Units 1- 3)
Introduction to economics
1. Supply and Demand
2. Data interpretation and the national income accounts
Introduction Business
3. Aims of the Firm, Legal structures, profit and loss account
4. Market research and Marketing
5. Production Efficiency and equality
6. Human Resource (Personnel) management
7. The balance sheet and investment appraisal
8. Leadership and planning

Industry-wide issues
9. Market structure
10. Externalities
11. Consumer Protection and Business ethics

Economy-wide issues
12. Economic growth and the business cycle
13. Unemployment and inflation
14. The government budget and economic welfare

International issues
15. International trade
16. The European Union and the world economic order

Coursework and Past papers
17. AS papers (Units 1 and 2)
18. AS Coursework (Unit 3)

The A2 Specification (Unit 4-6)
Core Content: Competitiveness:
19. Increasing business competitiveness: marketing and production
20. Increasing business competitiveness: human resources and planning
21. Measuring the competitiveness of an Industry's market structure
22. Government and consumer action to promote competitive market structures
23. Government action to promote national competitiveness
24. Creating a Competitive World? The Work of the EU and the WTO

The Options (Unit 5)
25. Option 1. What is the Global Future?
26. Option 2. Can there be Certainty?
27. Option 3. Competition, Conflict or consensus?

Coursework and Past paper practice
28. A2 Papers (Units 4 and 5)
29. A2 Coursework (Unit 6)