Junior Cycle Business Studies help
Stuck on Business Studies? Sage helps you work it out yourself, one step at a time.
How Sage helps
- Ask about anything you're stuck on. You get hints, not the answer.
- Take a photo of your homework and Sage helps you through it.
- 456 practice questions, with a hint whenever you need one.
What's on the course
- Personal Finance
- Enterprise
- Our Economy
Personal Finance: income and expenditure, budgeting, wages and deductions (PAYE, USC, PRSI), consumer rights, financial services, insurance. Enterprise: entrepreneurs, business ideas, market research, marketing mix, business documents (invoices, credit notes, statements), double-entry bookkeeping, final accounts, cash flow. Our Economy: scarcity, opportunity cost, supply and demand, economic indicators (inflation, employment, GDP), government revenue and spending, taxation, the EU and international trade, sustainable development. The three elements are Managing my resources, Exploring business, and Using skills for business.
How it's examined
CBA 1: Business in Action. CBA 2: Presentation. Final written exam at common level: Section A short questions and Section B longer questions built around a scenario.
Exam tips
For explain questions, make a point and then show why or how, using the scenario. For calculations and accounts, use the correct layout and label every figure.
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