GCSE Business
Mae disgrifiad y cymhwyster yn Saesneg yn unig, gan ei fod wedi ei gymryd o fanyleb Saesneg CBAC.
GCSE Business asks learners to research a real local business and an entrepreneurial idea, collect data with questionnaires, present it in graphs and charts, and work out costs, profit and a cash flow forecast, with both NEA reports submitted digitally. The examined units test understanding of business technology, digital marketing and intellectual property rather than software skills. The single biggest thing KS3 should build is confident spreadsheet use: turning survey results into charts and building simple financial models with formulae.
- Corff dyfarnu
- CBAC
- Lefel
- Level 1 and Level 2
- Addysgu gyntaf
- Medi 2025
- Faint o waith digidol
- Canolig
- Manyleb
- Agor y fanyleb
Sut mae'r cymhwyster hwn yn cael ei asesu
- Unit 1: Introduction to the Business World: Examination 1 hour 15 minutes, 30%
- Unit 2: Key Business Considerations: NEA 5 hours, 15%, set and marked by WJEC
- Unit 3: Business Strategies for Success: Examination 1 hour 15 minutes, 30%
- Unit 4: Business Creation: NEA 8 hours, 25%, set by WJEC, marked by the centre and moderated by WJEC
Sgiliau sy'n defnyddio Datrys problemau a modelu
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Modelling costs, revenue, profit and cash flow in a spreadsheet
The Unit 4 proposal must include calculating costs, revenues and profit and creating a cash flow forecast, and Units 1 and 3 examine break-even, income statements and cash flow. The specification does not name spreadsheets, but a spreadsheet model is the obvious digital tool for the NEA forecast.
DCF: Llythrennedd gwybodaeth a data, Datrys problemau a modelu
Paratoi disgyblion
- Blwyddyn 7
- Pupils use Excel formulae to add up the costs and takings of a class cake sale and work out the profit.
- Blwyddyn 8
- Pupils build an Excel costs and revenue table for a school enterprise stall and change the selling price to see how the profit changes.
- Blwyddyn 9
- Pupils create a six-month cash flow forecast in Excel with formulae for net cash flow and opening and closing balances, then test what happens if sales fall.
Dangos geiriad y fanyleb a datganiadau'r FCD
Ble mae yn y fanyleb: Unit 4, Section 4.2.1, page 37; Unit 3, Section 3.3.3, page 30; Unit 1, Section 1.7, page 18
“creating a cash flow forecast”
Cam cynnydd 3
Rwy'n gallu defnyddio ystod o fformiwlâu taenlenni, e.e. + - / x, swm, cyfartaledd, uchafswm, lleiafswm.
Rwy'n gallu creu a mireinio algorithmau a siartiau llif er mwyn datrys problemau, gan ddefnyddio nodweddion fel dolenni, gwerthoedd Boolean a fformiwlâu.
Cam cynnydd 4
Rwy'n gallu creu model syml neu algorithm annibynnol.
Cam cynnydd 5
Rwy'n gallu creu a dylunio modelau'n annibynnol, ac esbonio sut y maen nhw'n cynrychioli problemau yn y byd go iawn, e.e. dewis dull i gyfleu problem, megis siart lif neu daenlen, a'i ddefnyddio'n gywir.
Da gwybod
- Typing is optional but submission is digital: for Unit 2 and Unit 4, 'Assessments must be submitted digitally (they may be hand written and scanned, or completed digitally)' (pages 40 and 41).
- The specification names no software, spreadsheets or calculators. Financial skills such as 'calculate and interpret a cashflow forecast' (Unit 3, page 30) are assessed in a written examination, so pupils also need to work these by hand.
- Online contact with businesses is optional and not assessed: 'engage in out of classroom learning (either in person or online)' is listed among learning experiences that 'will not be directly assessed' (page 38).
- Appendix A (page 46) maps Digital Competence Producing and Data and Computational Thinking to Units 2 and 4, Citizenship to Unit 3 only, and Interacting and Collaborating to no unit.
Cysylltiadau â chymwysterau eraill
Questionnaire design, charts and digital NEA submission match the demand in GCSE Social Studies, and the financial calculations overlap with Mathematics, so a shared KS3 routine of Forms to Excel to Word would serve all three.
Ffynhonnell: WJEC GCSE Business specification, Version 4, September 2025 (teaching from 2025, for award from 2027).