• Prerequisite course for Business Pathway
• Fundamental business activities
• Business processes, economics, and business relationships
• Employability skills, communications, and personal financial literacy

•  Introduction to fundamental knowledge and skills in marketing communications, marketing management, marketing research, merchandising and professional selling
• Acquire knowledge of marketing strategies, market identification techniques, business ethics and law, economic principles and international business
• Technology, employability skills, leadership and communication
• Student participation in DECA

• Demonstrate sales processes and techniques used in a business-to-business environment
• Develop, grow and maintain positive business relationships
• Monitor trends and the business environment to determine the impact on sales, customers and competitors
• Negotiate and adjust prices and sales items
• Manage sales activities and territories
• Technology, employability skills, leadership and communications
• Student participation in DECA

• Management principles and leadership skills
• Entrepreneurial focus and marketing research
• Students will create a business plan
• Students will utilize Excel to create break-even analyses, accounting fundamentals, financing

• Fundamental knowledge and skills in general management, human resources, operations
• Business operations, business relationships, resource management
• Introduction to financial principles
• Students will use technological tools and applications to develop business insights

• Investment strategies, savings vehicles, application of financial ratios and participation in a Stock Market Simulation
• Develop leadership skills via study of Ethics, creating a digital portfolio, solving/studying real life business scenarios including participating in the student club, Business Professionals of America (BPA)
• Financial statement analysis, interpreting technical documents, and analyzing debt packages
• Project-oriented class emphasizing how effectively students apply what they are learning to real world business situations

• Entrepreneurship and Management Focus designed to build effective managers/BPA membership included
• Students create a Business Plan, conduct marketing research and analyze case studies to finesse Leadership skills
• Excel skills strengthened by applying accounting and finance principles to relevant work
• Project-oriented class with Risk Analysis and the Business Environment

• Apply skills in a comprehensive and authentic way
• May include project/problem-based learning opportunities both in and away from school
• Under supervision and through community partnerships, students may combine classroom learning with work experience

1 credit per course

Business Foundations is a prerequisite for courses in the Business Pathway.

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