Introduction

Welcome to our Cambridge IGCSE Business Studies course. This guide explains how the course is structured, how your work will be assessed and how to get the most out of your studies, so please read it carefully before you start.

This course leads you step-by-step through the syllabus using your coursebook, video links, downloadable worksheets, quizzes and assignments so that by the end you will feel confident and ready to show off all you’ve learnt as you take your IGCSE exam.

You are embarking on a personal learner journey that will enable you to understand and apply the concepts of business for small, medium and large business organisations. Business is a wide-ranging topic that will require good understanding of each business function.

By the end of the course you will have learnt about:

• business activity and growth
• business organisations and their objectives
• how people in business are organised
• the marketing function
• the nature of the operations function
• finance and cash flow management
• financial statements for different types of business
• the external influences on business activity

You should be able to understand and apply the concepts of all these business functions.