IB Business Management IA supporting documents

IB Business Management IA Source Checker

Business Management IA sources should form a balanced set of 3-5 supporting documents, usually recent, relevant to the real organization, and varied enough to support analysis rather than repeat one company viewpoint.

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Business Management IA source check

Marksy reads the links or source notes you provide, applies the selected IB assessment profile, and only stops for clarification when the score depends on it.

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Selected profile

Business Management IA

Source rules

What usually works for Business Management IA

Usually strong

  • Annual reports, financial statements, investor updates, or audited company data.
  • Recent news articles, industry reports, government statistics, and market data.
  • Interviews or surveys when the provenance is clear and the method is explained.

Needs review

  • Company website pages that only promote the organization.
  • Old strategic documents unless the IA is explicitly about a long-running decision.
  • Textbooks or class notes: useful for theory, but not supporting documents.

Avoid or replace

  • Wikipedia or encyclopedia summaries as supporting documents.
  • AI-generated business summaries with no traceable underlying evidence.
  • A source pack where every document comes from the same organization viewpoint.

Examples: strong, risky, weak

Strong

A 2025 annual report, a 2026 news article about the decision, customer survey results, and a competitor/industry report.

Review

A company press release with useful facts but no independent viewpoint.

Weak

A textbook chapter explaining SWOT analysis.

Where to find better Business Management IA sources

If your current source gets a warning, do not just add more websites. Use searches that match the assessment rule and replace weak evidence with sources that can actually carry analysis.

Replacement moves

Replace wikipedia or encyclopedia summaries as supporting documents. with annual reports, financial statements, investor updates, or audited company data..

Use company website pages that only promote the organization. only as context unless your teacher confirms they can carry evidence.

Add one source that gives direct evidence for the IA, not just general background.

Strong places to look

Annual reports, financial statements, investor updates, or audited company data
Recent news articles, industry reports, government statistics, and market data
Interviews or surveys when the provenance is clear and the method is explained