Apart from its main aim of providing coverage for GCSE Business Studies, this text should also be relevant to GCSE Economics and Commerce courses, and BTEC First Award, TVEI, CPVE, RSA and Pitman Business Studies courses. GCSE Business Studies require a coursework element and methods of assessment which provide opportunities for candidates of all abilities to demonstrate positive achievement. In response, this text covers all areas laid down in the National Criteria; provides material for use in the coursework element; includes a variety of methods for assessing all abilities, including structures assignments (case studies, role playing data response and problem solving), specimen examination questions, and self-assessment questions with answers; and presents the subject in a way designed to develop other relevant skills and techniques (numeracy, literacy, and the discovery, selection and use of information). A lecturer's supplement is available.