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Business Studies

The term business covers a wide range of careers. If your dream is to become a businessman or woman, then your role could be anything from working in a bank as an accountant or personal finance advisor to starting up your own business. No matter what your background or skills, if you have the right mixture of ideas, passion, determination and hard work then you could be developing your own company or website in the next few years. It’s never too early to start. Many businesses were begun whilst their founders were still in school. The term entrepreneur is used for those people who come up with unique ideas and turn them into successful companies.

So, whether your interest lies in product design or art, finance or maths, or even music and drama, if you have an idea for a product or service, then business could be the way forward for you.

Careers that involve business studies:

Accounting
Advertising
Business management
Economics
Event management
Finance
Human resource management
Law
Logistics
Marketing
Personal assistant
Purchasing

Did you know?

One out of every seven pounds in England is spent at Tesco, the largest supermarket in the UK. Tesco claims 31.2 per cent of the total grocery market in the UK. It has been on a rampage since 1995, when it overtook Sainsbury’s to become the UK’s largest supermarket.

Want to know more?

http://www.bized.co.uk/ A free online service for students of business, economics, accounting, leisure and recreation and travel and tourism.

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize - Get some great advice about business studies on this BBC web page.