Business Studies Supervisions

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You’re probably seeing this because I will be your supervisor for Business Studies this year. Welcome!

This course can be relatively easy for some, with a good marks-to-time ratio, but beware trying to get marks without revising, as the lecturer really likes to ask about concepts and ideas you actually need to memorise, and you can get some really low scores if you’re overconfident. It’s very much worth it to get your hands on Jack Lang’s book, he used to do the course together with Stewart, and it covers a lot of the material - I’ll share a pdf with you after the second supervision to help you with revision. If you have trouble understanding more concrete frameworks like cashflows or valuations, look to investopedia or youtube for help.

I’m happy to supervise Online, in the Computer Lab, or in Churchill. For online supervisions I will be calling you on Teams, I’ll follow this up with you closer to. Please let me know if you have any questions or requests re- course or scheduling. Also, let me know what kind of supervisions you prefer so I can put out more slots like that.

This course only has two supervisions, so it’s one of the more flexible ones to schedule - that being said it’s going to be hard to fit two supervisions in before the end of term and undergrad interviews, so it’s quite likely that we will have one or two of them outside of term. If this is something you want to avoid, please let me know!

Please book supervisions through KuDoS, and make sure you’re in contact with your supervision partners. If there are any issues, or you are otherwise not on track to complete your work by the time you booked, let me know - I much prefer to postpone the supervision but get complete work.



Supervision 1

To take place after lecture 4

  1. Planning
    2023 Paper 9 Question 3.
    Repeat part (b) for another business idea of your choosing, and contrast the differences.

  2. Marketing
    So you’ve got an idea 2013 Paper 7 Question 4(d)
    Marketing and selling 2008 Paper 7 Question 13(b)
    Market requirements 2017 Paper 7 Question 5(b)
    Customer adoption 2020 Paper 9 Question 3(c)

  3. Financing
    2018 Paper 7’ Question 4



Supervision 2

To take place after lecture 8

  1. Intellectual Property
    2020 Paper 9 Question 3(a)
    2017 Paper 7 Question 5(a)
    2013 Paper 7 Question 4(a,b)

  2. Financials
    What’s worth more, and why?
    • Roku bond or Apple bond?
    • 2-year bond or 5-year bond?
    • IVV or SPY?
    • January option or February option?
    • META @400 Call or META @400 Put?
       

  3. Project Planning
    Create a PERT and Gantt chart of completing a supervision.

  4. Shutting Down
    2021 Paper 9 Question 3(b)

  5. Valuation
    2014 Paper 7 Question 4
    2015 Paper 7 Question 4