GCSE AQA Business 3.2.3 The economic climate on businesses (only)
GCSE AQA BUSINESS
Just one lesson - GCSE AQA Business 3.2.2 The economic climate on businesses(only)
This lesson includes:
- Teacher PowerPoint
- Student PowerPoint (to upload to a shared drive)
- Student worksheet in Word (so you can edit it)
- Worksheet in PDF (so it will behave itself in a printer)
This lesson covers:
• Interest rates:
• how fluctuating interest rates can affect businesses that rely on overdrafts and loans for finance
• how fluctuating interest rates can affect consumer and business spending.
• Level of employment
• Consumer spending
From the specification:
Students should be able to demonstrate and understand how businesses might be affected by changes in the rate of interest. Students should be able to identify how and why businesses might be affected by changes in levels of employment.
Students should be able to discuss how demand for products and services may change as incomes fluctuate. Economic theory relating to how/why interest rates
change is not required.

