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Business

GCSE · Edexcel

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2.1 Growing the Business
2.2 Making Marketing Decisions
2.3 Making Operational Decisions
2.4 Making Financial Decisions
- Business Calculations
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- Understanding Business Performance
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2.5 Making Human Resource Decisions

3.1 The Exam Papers
- Paper 1: Investigating Small Business
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- Paper 2: Building a Business
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3.2 Business Exam Skills
3.3 Structuring Your Responses

External (Inorganic) Business Growth Flashcards

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What is external (inorganic) growth?: Growth achieved by joining with another business, through a merger or a takeover.
What is a merger?: Two businesses agree to join together to form one new, larger business.
What is a takeover?: One business buys a controlling interest (over 50% of the shares) in another business.
Give one drawback of growing by merger or takeover rather than organically.: Competition laws may prevent further merger and takeover activity, constraining growth.