Higher Business Management
Course Outline
Higher Business Management focuses on 3 mandatory units:
1. Business Enterprise
2. Business Decision Areas: Marketing and Operations
3. Business Decision Areas: Finance and Human Resource Management
Business Enterprise:
This unit comprises four key areas:
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Business in Contemporary Society
Business Information and ICT
Decision Making
Internal Organisation
Business Decision Areas: Marketing and Operations
Sub Sections
1. Course Notes
2. Home Work Tasks
3. Power Point Revision
4. Revision Questions
5. Past Paper Questions
This unit comprises two key areas:
 Marketing
 Operations
Business Decision Areas: Finance and Human Resource Management
This unit comprises two key areas:
 Financial Management
 Human Resource Management
Assessment
Internal Assessment
Internal Assessments are written tasks which the pupils will take when
they will finish each unit. They will complete Internal Assessment in
class time, under exam conditions. There will be 3 Internal Assessments
(NABS) of 40 marks each. Each NAB will consist of a case study.
 Unit - 1 Business Enterprise – Business in Business in Contemporary
Society
Business Information and ICT
Decision Making
 Unit - 2 Business Decision Areas: Marketing and Operations
 Unit -3 Business Decision Areas: Finance and Human Resource
Management.
The pupils’ must achieve at least 50% marks to pass each NAB.
If the pupil fails an internal assessment, he/she will be allowed to sit the
assessment again, pupil will not get the same assessment but a
different one. This resit would usually happen shortly after the first
attempt at the assessment.
External Assessment
The external Assessment is based on a written paper of 2 hours and 30
minutes duration. Pupils will be required to attempt the whole paper
which consists of two sections.
Section 1 – Case Study (50 Marks)
Knowledge and understanding, problem solving and decision making
will be assessed through a case study of 750 words. The case study is
usually based on a newspaper or magazine article and it provides the
basis for the questions in this section. Pupils will not be able to answer
all of the questions purely from the text of the case study.
All questions in section 1 are compulsory and the pupils will be required
to:
 Analyse the information given and identify the business
problems.
 Identify constraints
 Devise solutions and make recommendations
 Justify recommendations.
Section 2 – Extended Response Questions (50 Marks)
The main purpose of this section will be to assess knowledge and
understanding and problem solving skills. Pupils will be required to
answer 2 questions from a choice of 5 questions. Each question is
worth 25 marks and questions are usually divided into 3-5 parts.
Progression
Successful completion of the course will normally lead to study at the
following levels:
Advanced Higher Business Management