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Expanding a business key terms
Use these key terms for Expanding a business in AQA Business 8132. The page is built from approved learning objectives for this topic and links back to the wider unit, topic hub, and related revision assets.
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Expanding a business
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discuss
discuss is a curriculum-aligned term linked to the learning objective: Discuss advantages and disadvantages of business growth methods..
advantages
advantages means how methods of expansion is used by a business to make a commercial decision about Discuss advantages and disadvantages of business growth methods. In an AQA GCSE Business answer, link it to evidence such as cost, revenue, cash-flow pressure, customer needs, or stakeholder impact rather than giving a stand-alone definition.
organic growth
organic growth is a curriculum-aligned term linked to the learning objective: Explain organic growth through franchising, opening new stores and e-commerce expansion..
franchising
franchising means how methods of expansion is used by a business to make a commercial decision about organic growth through franchising, opening new stores and e-commerce expansion. In an AQA GCSE Business answer, link it to evidence such as cost, revenue, cash-flow pressure, customer needs, or stakeholder impact rather than giving a stand-alone definition.
takeovers
takeovers is a curriculum-aligned term linked to the learning objective: Explain outsourcing and external growth through mergers and takeovers..
outsourcing
outsourcing means how methods of expansion is used by a business to make a commercial decision about outsourcing and external growth through mergers and takeovers. In an AQA GCSE Business answer, link it to evidence such as cost, revenue, cash-flow pressure, customer needs, or stakeholder impact rather than giving a stand-alone definition.
economies of scale
economies of scale is a curriculum-aligned term linked to the learning objective: Explain how growth can create unit cost advantages through economies of scale..
Explain
Explain means how economies and diseconomies of scale is used by a business to make a commercial decision about how growth can create unit cost advantages through economies of scale. In an AQA GCSE Business answer, link it to evidence such as cost, revenue, cash-flow pressure, customer needs, or stakeholder impact rather than giving a stand-alone definition.
economies of scale
economies of scale is a curriculum-aligned term linked to the learning objective: Explain purchasing economies and technical economies of scale..
purchasing economies
purchasing economies means how economies and diseconomies of scale is used by a business to make a commercial decision about purchasing economies and technical economies of scale. In an AQA GCSE Business answer, link it to evidence such as cost, revenue, cash-flow pressure, customer needs, or stakeholder impact rather than giving a stand-alone definition.
economies of scale
economies of scale is a curriculum-aligned term linked to the learning objective: Explain how growth can create diseconomies of scale through communication problems, coordination issues and reduced staff motivation..
diseconomies of scale
diseconomies of scale means how economies and diseconomies of scale is used by a business to make a commercial decision about how growth can create diseconomies of scale through communication problems, coordination issues and reduced staff motivation. In an AQA GCSE Business answer, link it to evidence such as cost, revenue, cash-flow pressure, customer needs, or stakeholder impact rather than giving a stand-alone definition.
average unit cost
average unit cost is a curriculum-aligned term linked to the learning objective: Calculate and interpret average unit costs..
Calculate
Calculate means how economies and diseconomies of scale is used by a business to make a commercial decision about and interpret average unit costs. In an AQA GCSE Business answer, link it to evidence such as cost, revenue, cash-flow pressure, customer needs, or stakeholder impact rather than giving a stand-alone definition.
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