WAEC Business Management syllabus

The WAEC Business Management syllabus has 20 examinable topics, listed in full below. This is the same breakdown Handbook uses to track which topics you have mastered and which are still costing you marks.

All 20 topics on the WAEC Business Management syllabus

1. 01Business plan and feasibility study
2. 02Characteristics of an entrepreneur
3. 03Concept of business organization
4. 04Consumer protection laws
5. 05Controlling: meaning, steps and importance
6. 06Directing: meaning, elements (leadership, motivation, communication)
7. 07Legal Environment of Business
8. 08Levels of management (top, middle, lower)
9. 09Marketing mix (product, price, place, promotion)
10. 10Negotiable instruments (cheque, bill of exchange, promissory note)
11. 11Planning: meaning, types and importance
12. 12Reasons for international trade
13. 13Role of entrepreneurship in economic development
14. 14Short‑term and long‑term finance
15. 15Sources of business ideas
16. 16Staffing: recruitment, selection, placement, training and development
17. 17Taxation: types and effects
18. 18Types of business organizations (sole proprietorship, partnership, company, cooperative, public enterprise)
19. 19Types of production (job, batch, mass, continuous)
20. 20Uses of ICT in business (accounting, marketing, communication, record keeping)