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Life Skills·Entrepreneurship·conceptual

Costs & Revenue

It costs money to make things (costs/expenses); you earn money by selling them (revenue); if revenue is more than costs, that's profit; if costs are more, that's a loss

Suggested ages 7–9

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Evidence of understanding

  • Explain what costs, revenue, and profit mean using a simple example
  • Calculate profit from a given scenario (e.g. spent £3 on ingredients, sold cakes for £8, profit = £5)
  • Explain what happens if costs are higher than revenue (you make a loss)

Assessment prompt

If Costs & Revenue spent £4 on supplies for a lemonade stand and earned £10 selling lemonade, could they tell you how much profit they made?

Standards alignment

No external standards are linked to this topic.