GCSE AQA Business 3.6.4 Analysing the financial performance of a business (only)
GCSE AQA BUSINESS
Just one lesson - GCSE AQA Business 3.6.4 Analysing the financial performance of a business (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:
• Purpose of financial statements
• Components of financial statements
• Interpretation of data given on financial statements
From the specification:
Students should be able to:
• understand the importance of financial statements for assessing business performance
and helping make business decisions
• identify the main components of the income statement and the statement of financial position
• understand the difference between assets and liabilities and that the statement of financial
position is a snapshot in time
• make judgements on the performance of a business through the interpretation of the
information contained in income statements
• consider current performance, performance against previous years, performance against
competitors and performance from the perspective of a range of stakeholders
• calculate gross profit margin and net profit margin to help assess financial performance.
Students will not be given formulae in an exam.

