Achievement Program provides school based experiences. Builds essential foundation of business management techniques and operations. Topic include human relations, decision making, communication techniques, business law concepts, and characteristics of the American enterprise system. Computerized management simulations and workshops conducted by business professionals provide relevant experiences. Cooperative learning emphasized.
Students develop the fundamental knowledge necessary to start and operate a business.
Projects include managing a school based operation, marketing research presentation, and development of business plan. One year each. Focus on accounting cycle for business. Students use commercial software to record transactions in special journals, ledgers, and controlling accounts, and to generate financial statements for single proprietors, partnerships, and corporations. Required for all Academy of Finance Students.