Understanding Organisations in their Context, 5th Edition

Table of contents

1. Front Cover
2. Title Page
3. Copyright
4. Contents
5. Series preface
6. Unit specification
7. Workbook introduction
   1. 1 ILM Super Series study links
   2. 2 Links to ILM qualifications
   3. 3 Workbook objectives
8. Session A  Why organizations need to exist
   1. 1 Introduction
   2. 2 What organizations are for
   3. 3 Is there ‘an organization for all purposes’?
   4. 4 Types of organization
   5. 5 Organizational structures
   6. 6 Organizational functions
   7. 7 Summary
9. Session B  The need for accounts
   1. 1 Introduction
   2. 2 How money is used
   3. 3 The use of accounting records
   4. 4 Accounting records and accounts
   5. 5 How a business works
   6. 6 Cash flow
   7. 7 Summary
10. Session C  Financial information
    1. 1 Introduction
    2. 2 Cash accounting versus profit accounting
    3. 3 The profit and loss account
    4. 4 The balance sheet
    5. 5 Financial indicators
    6. 6 Summary
11. Session D  Sources of finance
    1. 1 Introduction
    2. 2 Funds available
    3. 3 Short-term finance
    4. 4 Medium-term and long-term finance
    5. 5 Flexible financing
    6. 6 Summary
12. Session E  The economic environment
    1. 1 Introduction
    2. 2 How economics affects everyone
    3. 3 Factors of production
    4. 4 Raw materials
    5. 5 The price mechanism  
    6. 6 The economic levers which governments use  
    7. 7 Key economic issues affecting all organizations
    8. 8 Summary
13. Session F  The global village
    1. 1 Introduction
    2. 2 The UK’s international trade
    3. 3 The UK’s trading partners
    4. 4 The European Union (EU)
    5. 5 International organizations which influence the UK
    6. 6 The trade cycle, unemployment and economic growth
    7. 7 Summary
14. Performance checks
    1. 1 Quick quiz
    2. 2 Workbook assessment
15. Reflect and review
    1. 1 Reflect and review
    2. 2 Action plan
    3. 3 Extensions
    4. 4 Answers to self-assessment questions
    5. 5 Answers to activities
    6. 6 Answers to the quick quiz
    7. 7 Certificate