Business SL/HL
Join our expert tutor, Khalid, as he provides you with IB Business Management SL/HL. Over five days, he will help you deconstruct IB-style questions, identify essential concepts and utilize key terms to score big in your exams. Don't worry if you are studying Standard or Higher Level; he will treat both content levels separately on different days.
See our detailed curriculum breakdown to see what Khalid is covering each day; you can choose to study the topics you need per Standard/Higher levels or Higher level only days or the whole course! Sign up today.
DAY 1: (18 Jul) (STANDARD/ HIGHER LEVEL)
Unit 1: Business organization and environment
1.1 Introduction to business management
1.2 Types of organizations
1.3 Organizational objectives
1.4 Stakeholders
1.5 External environment
1.6 Human resource management
Unit 2: Functions and evolution of human resource management
2.1 Organizational structure
2.2 Leadership and management
2.3 Motivation Growth and evolution
DAY 2: (19 Jul) (STANDARD/ HIGHER LEVEL)
Unit 3: Finance and accounts
3.1 Sources of finance
3.2 Costs and revenues
3.3 Break-even analysis
3.5 Profitability and liquidity ratio analysis
3.7 Cash flow
Unit 4: Marketing
4.1 The role of marketing
4.2 Marketing planning (including an introduction to the four Ps)
4.3 Sales forecasting
4.4 Market research
4.5 The four Ps (product, price, promotion, place)
4.8 E-commerce
DAY 3: (20 Jul) (STANDARD/ HIGHER LEVEL)
Unit 5: Operations management
5.1 The role of operations management
5.2 Production methods
5.4 Location
DAY 4: (21 Jul) (HIGHER LEVEL ONLY)
Unit 1: Business organization and environment
- Reasons for starting up in Business?
- What is a Business Plan?
- Problems that a new enterprise may face.
- The main functions of business
- 1.7 Organizational planning tools
Unit 2: Human resource management
2.5 Organizational (corporate) culture
2.6 Industrial/employee relations
DAY 5: (12 Jul) (HIGHER LEVEL ONLY)
Unit 3: Finance and accounts
3.4 Final accounts
3.6 Efficiency ratio analysis
3.8 Investment appraisal
3.9 Budgets
Unit 4: Marketing
4.6 The extended marketing mix of seven Ps
4.7 International marketing
Unit 5.3 Lean production and quality management
5.4 Location
5.5 Production planning
5.6 Research and development
5.7 Crisis management and contingency planning
5.8 Operations management