Paper 1 Case Study May 23 - Skandvig Terra PLC

This case study, released 11 weeks prior to the exam, will form the question to Section A and some of Section B and C (HL) of your Paper 1 exam. There will be some additional information used for Sections B and C (HL) as well. Key topics evident in this case include:

1.1 Intro to Business Management
1.2 Types of Organisation
1.3 Organisational Objectives
1.4 Stakeholders
1.5 External Environment
1.6 External growth
2.1 Functions and evolution of HRM
2.2 Organisational Structure
2.3 Leadership and Management
2.4 Motivation
2.6 Employee/employer relations (HL)
3.1 Sources of Finance
3.3 Break Even Analysis
3.5 Ration analysis
3.9 Budgeting (HL)
4.5 The 4 Ps - Product, Price, Place, Promotion
4.8 International marketing (HL)
5.1 Role of Operations Management
5.4 Location
5.6 Research and Development

All other topics are potentially assessable. Section A focuses on SL topics only. HL students will be assessed on HL content in Section B and Section C.