Ripley Business

This page is dedicated to the top Business Education links on the internet that we recommend to help students in their studies.

Business News

  The BBC News website is a great source for news on Business, Companies and the Economy as a whole.

  The Guardian website offers a great alternative to BBC News with stories on Business, Companies and the Economy as a whole.

  For those of you who want to get into a story in more detail or have the choice to read a wider choice of business and finance stories then the Financial Times site is for you.

Business Studies Revision sites

  This site has everything you need to follow up work done in class.  It has revision notes, learning materials, company information as well as numerous activities such as Virtual Worlds.  Have a look at BizEd today.

  This site overs more notes and presentations.  The blogs are a great way of keeping current with news that may be relevant to different topic areas.  They also have another great links section.

  Has some great revision notes for GCSE along with revision questions.

  A great site particularly for A Level revision notes.

Business Games

  This link has loads of games where you can learn and use your business skills that you have learnt in class.  Practice using business terms to describe what you are doing.  The site also has other acticities and notes on.  It also has a great revision section.

   SPORTDAQ is a sports stock exchange game. Instead of shares in companies you buy shares in sports stars. To play you have to sign up. Once you’re signed up they will give you a cool ten thousand pounds (that’s Sportdaq pounds, not real cash!).

The aim of the game: to make as much profit as you can by buying and selling ’shares’ in listed sports stars. The person with the highest weekly percentage gain is crowned Top Trader.

  CELEBDAQ is a celebrity stock exchange game. Instead of shares in companies you buy shares in celebrities. To play you have to sign up.  Once you’re signed up they will give you a cool ten thousand pounds (that’s Celebdaq pounds, not real cash!).

The aim of the game: to make as much profit as you can by buying and selling ’shares’ in listed celebrities. The person with the highest weekly percentage gain is crowned Top Trader.

  Gazzilionaire is the a great business simulation game. Try the free shareware version of this award-winning game of business strategy. Become a mogul or tycoon, match wits against a sophisticated AI, and test your entrepreneurial skills. Real-world economic tools help you determine where supply meets demand as you race to build your trade empire. It’s like Monopoly in outer space.

General Information

 Free access to data produced by the Office for National Statistics, government departments and devolved administrations.

  Learn everything there is to know about the Bank of England.

  CAROL is an on-line service offering direct links to the financial pages of listed companies in Europe and the USA. CAROL provides direct access to companies’ balance sheets, profit & loss statements, financial highlights etc.

Useful Tools

  SurveyMonkey is a really useful site that provides you with the tools to carry out market research online.  Send people a questionnaire via email or ask people in a forum or on your website to fill it out.  It is free but has some limitations to functionality (e.g. your limited to 10 questions and can only get 100 replies to any individual questionnaire).

 MultiMap and  Upmystreet.com are great sites to get information about a particular area.  Great if you are doing some work about location and external influences. 

  Yell.com is also good for quickly checking competition.

 The CIA World Factbook an outstanding resource to find out all sorts of information about any country in the world.  Information includes everything from population size, literacy rates, amount of coast line, army size, miles of coastline, official langauages and so on.