AQA A Level · 7136 · Paper 1: Markets and market failure

4.1.5.2 The Objectives of Firms

Also AQA AS 7135: 3.1.4.2

Everything you need for questions on the objectives of firms, in the words examiners reward. An interactive seven-step lesson goes with it.

What's on this sheet

  1. Profit maximisation
  2. Three outputs on one diagram
  3. Alternative objectives
  4. Worked example
  5. Classic question: do firms always aim to maximise profit?
  6. Divorce of ownership from control, and other objectives
  7. Side 2: practice tasks, where the marks go, and exam-style questions
  8. Separate answer key

The lesson in seven steps

  1. One firm, three objectives
  2. Which objective?
  3. How much profit is enough?
  4. Objectives trainer
  5. Is it all about profit?
  6. Build the chain
  7. Exam practice

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