National 5

Business Management · National 5

How organisations plan, market, finance and manage people, from sole traders to multinationals.

The course

What Business Management is about

Business Management looks at how organisations actually run: how they are structured, how they market and finance themselves, how they manage people and operations, and how they respond to what is happening outside them.

Where it leads

What it offers you

You leave with the vocabulary and frameworks used in real organisations, ready for further study and for work in business, marketing, finance and management.

The archive

Papers & marking schemes

2022–2026

2026

2 files

Question papers

Marking instructions

2025

2 files

Question papers

Marking instructions

2024

2 files

Question papers

Marking instructions

2023

2 files

Question papers

Marking instructions

2022

2 files

Question papers

Marking instructions

SQA publishes the most recent five years of papers. Older papers and specimen papers live on their site — open Business Management National 5 on sqa.org.uk.

All Business Management levels