Course Contents

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Please note the content shown below is 2025 syllabus. This course is also available for 2026 syllabus. Please contact college for details.

Higher Level

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Detailed Content

• Structure of syllabus
• Aims of syllabus
• Principal parties in business
• Legislation protecting the consumer
• The Ombudsman
• The law of contract
• Trade Unions
• Legislation affecting employers and employees

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• Introduction and definition of enterprise
• Examples of enterprise
• Business start-up
• Management Buy-Out ( MBO )
• First step initiative
• Enterprise link
• Characteristic and skills of Enterprise
• Enterprise and industrial promotion

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• Definition of Management
• Project Managing
• Characteristics of Managers
• Management skills
• Maslow's theory
• Enterprise versus Management
• Communications
• Running a meeting
• Report writing
• Technological communication

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• Household and Business Manager
• Loan application
• Household cash flow
• Savings
• Insurance
• Taxation
• Human resource management

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• Managing continued
• Monitoring the business
• Identifying opportunities
• Sampling
• Product life cycle
• Types of advertising
• Sole trader
• Partnership
• Writing a business plan

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• Domestic environment
• Expansion
• Public companies
• State sponsored bodies
• Privatisation
• Foreign transnationals in Ireland

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• Government role in business
• Reasons for government intervention
• Regulating business
• Social and ethical responsibilities of business
• International trading environment
• Ireland as a small open economy
• Current and capital accounts
• The single market

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• European Union
• CAP ( common agricultural pact )
• Competition Policy
• Common Fisheries Policy
• Social Charter
• Single Currency
• The Global Economy

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