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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

AQAGCSEBusinessBusiness in the real world

Key terms

  • 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.