Product Description

Encompassing all AS and A level specifications, in a clear and consistent style.

• Ensures complete coverage of the 2000 AS and A Level specifications.
• Contains new chapters on IT, tackling synoptic questions, and lean production and management.
• Includes detailed accounts of cash flow statements, corporate culture, organisation theory, decision trees, economics-related topics and financial and numerical techniques.
• Provides guidance on project work, exam practice, study skills and tackling case studies, with advice and tips from a former Chief Examiner.

“The book enables students to build an all-round understanding of business concepts. A great deal of relevant theory is explained in an accessible and concise format... it is a good resource for teachers and students.”

Review from the EBEA Journal.           

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #381504 in Books
• Published on: 2000-04-26
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 592 pages

Customer Reviews

Comprehensive, but....
This is the 3rd edition of a book that was first published in 1990, written by the chief A level examiner for the ULEAC board. Thus many teachers felt that it was the essential text for the course, and now that ULEAC has expanded to become EDEXCEL this is probably now truer than ever. This book certainly covers the whole course very throroughly, but it is very dry. A problem with Business Studies text-books is that any examples used are likely to become dated very quickly, and Jewell has side-stepped this by not using any. His decision to include an extensive bibliography instead is probably a sound one, but it does make the book light on entertaining anecdotes. The real reason why I want to review this book is that I am constantly annoyed by the number of errors that remain in the 3rd edition, and particularly so at the moment as I have just finished teaching Critical Path Analysis, using chapter 39. There are obvious mistakes in Fig. 39.5 on page 478, Fig. 39.10 on page 481, and in the network diagram for question 5 on page 484. I also feel that his introduction of three types of float is an unnecessary complication, and that his Gantt charts would be improved by filling in the numbers of the workers required in each of the shaded squares. Throughout the book there are so many errors that even the most able students will find it hard to work through it unaided - eg on page 431 the table (35.7) is not the one that you would expect from reading the text. Another major criticism is the repetitive nature of the questions at the end of each chapter; there are plenty of them, but students don't learn anything new if they do more than a couple. I also find some of his graphs confusing - see Fig 38.4 on page 469 - and feel that many of his explanations lack clarity, although this may be a result of the necessarily technical language used. On the positive side there are lists of important points to learn that stand out well, and good use of tables (though not of figures). I understand that a new edition is out very shortly, and anyone who gets the chance to do so should check it for the mistakes that I have outlined. If these remain, it is likely that the new edition is not, in terms of accuracy, a great improvement.

Unusually good
This book is unusual in being a (mostly)technically sound business studies book. Probably too advanced for typical A level bus. students (certainly for mine) but worth having in the library and as a reference.