AC9HE9K04 – Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences: Economics and Business
Content Descriptor
This content descriptor sits within Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences. Use it to identify the learning students need, connect it with the achievement standard and plan suitable evidence of learning.
What this means for planning
AC9HE9K04 focuses on the processes businesses use to create and maintain competitive advantage, including the role of entrepreneurs. Case studies should help students explain how a process works and why it may influence business performance, rather than simply list business features.
A practical planning sequence
- Choose contrasting businesses: Select current, age appropriate case studies with enough reliable information to identify decisions, processes and outcomes.
- Analyse the mechanism: Ask how innovation, cost, differentiation, networks, skills or enterprise contributes to an advantage in each case.
- Evaluate a response: Present a new challenge or opportunity and have students recommend a process, supported by criteria and case evidence.
Evidence to look for
- A case analysis that identifies a business process and explains how it contributes to competitive advantage.
- A comparison that distinguishes the role of entrepreneurs from other business resources and decisions.
- A recommendation supported by evidence, relevant criteria and recognition of possible trade offs.
See the complete curriculum context
Open the achievement standard and all linked content descriptors together in the Year 9 Economics and Business curriculum map.
A TeaCheese planning example
Use AC9HE9K04 in a TeaCheese planning brief to create a case comparison and recommendation task with explicit evidence and decision criteria.
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Elaborations
- • Elaboration identifying and explaining processes used by First Nations Australian businesses to out-perform competitors and innovate in global markets; for example, promoting brand image recognition or the uniqueness of experiences, managing cultural and intellectual property, copyright and licensing, and collaborating through the First Nations Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- • Elaboration identifying and explaining the processes First Nations Australian businesses use to maintain, control, protect and develop their cultural expressions in goods and/or services; for example, designing products, licensing of art and music, or consulting on locations of cultural significance for movies, television programs and other commercial activities
- • Elaboration explaining the reasons businesses seek to build or create a competitive advantage; for example, to meet the changing demands of a competitive global market and improve their profit margins
- • Elaboration explaining processes that businesses use to build connections, such as working with other businesses within the industry to share promotion costs, working with government to increase exports, developing highly skilled professionals and leaders in different industries
- • Elaboration explaining processes that businesses use to produce goods and services at a lower cost, such as research and development; improving efficiency in development, production or delivery processes; utilising local resources, and outsourced labour in the global economy
- • Elaboration explaining processes that businesses use to innovate and differentiate products and services from competitors; for example, identifiable marketable attributes, and use of advertising and social media
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Start freeAchievement standard statements this supports
Read the full Year 9 Economics and Business achievement standard