Main Topics of Study:

Business Organisations:

• Types of Business Organisation
• Sole Trader Organisations
• Partnerships
• Limited Companies
• Other Types of Organisation
• Employment in these Various Organisations

Public Enterprise:

• The Need for Public Enterprises
• Central Government Departments
• The Civil Service
• Quasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisations
• Local Government

Internal Organisation of Businesses:

• Management of Businesses
• The Board of Directors
• The Orientation of Companies
• Relationships within an Organisation
• The Principles of Organisation
• Departmental System

Location of Businesses:

• The Need for Premises
• Considerations when Acquiring Premises
• Setting up a Business in a Domestic Property
• What Happens When Objections are Raised?
• Restrictive Covenants in Leases & Deeds
• Other Reasons for Location
• Location & Industrial Inertia

The Size of Businesses:

• The Small Business
• Factors Affecting the Size of a Business
• Economies of Large-Scale Operations
• How Firms & Companies Grow
• Growth & Company Status
• Mergers & Takeovers

Reading List

Main Text:

Business Studies - G Whitehead (Butterworth Heinemann)