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Official AQA GCSE Business 8132 content on sources of finance, cash flow, financial calculations and financial performance.

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Sources of finance

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Cash flow

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Financial terms and calculations

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Analysing the financial performance of a business

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Sources of finance: Explain internal and external sources of finance, including family and friends, retained profit, share issue, loans or mortgages, selling assets, overdrafts, trade credit, hire purchase and government grants.
Sources of finance: Evaluate suitable sources of finance for new and established businesses.
Cash flow: Explain how and why cash flow forecasts are constructed.
Cash flow: Distinguish cash from profit.
Cash flow: Evaluate possible solutions to cash flow problems, including rescheduling payments, using overdrafts, reducing cash outflow, increasing cash inflow and finding new sources of finance.
Financial terms and calculations: Distinguish variable costs, fixed costs and total costs.
Financial terms and calculations: Explain revenue, costs, profit and loss.
Financial terms and calculations: Explain investment projects such as investment in machinery, buildings and vehicles.
Financial terms and calculations: Calculate average rate of return for business investment projects.
Financial terms and calculations: Explain break-even output.
Financial terms and calculations: Interpret break-even charts.
Analysing the financial performance of a business: Calculate net profit margin to help assess financial performance.
Analysing the financial performance of a business: Calculate gross profit margin to help assess financial performance.
Analysing the financial performance of a business: Distinguish assets and liabilities.
Analysing the financial performance of a business: Explain the importance of financial statements for assessing business performance and making decisions.