A one semester course designed to give students the self-confidence and presentation skills to effectively organize, develop, manage, and sell a service or product. This course is a recommended prerequisite into the Marketing Education Cooperative Program. This basic business course is designed to contribute to a better understanding of American business and its place in our social and economic life. Emphasis is placed on the role of business as it relates to procedures, consumers, and citizen involvement in the business world. Topics of concern include banking, consumer buying, credit, basic business organization, money management, transportation of goods, communications and personal record keeping.
Major study is made of relationships between the consumer and government, business, and labor.
This course is designed to provide information and practices relative to basic record keeping procedures. Good banking practices and budgeting activities are covered for both individual and small business financial management. Student will work with major business record systems and double-entry accounting. This course provides both entry-level employment skills and a foundation for further study of accounting. Recordkeeping is not open to students who have successfully completed accounting or are enrolled in accounting.