BUSINESS
ACCOUNTING
E,
Grades11, 12
1.0 Credit
Accounting
acquaints the student with the use of business papers, forms and reports
involved in keeping financial records and develops skills in analyzing and
interpreting information. Students
are given working papers to accompany the text as well as a simulation of the
accounting cycle. The students will
journalize transactions, posting to General and Subsidiary ledgers, completing a
worksheet and doing the end of period financial statements for Sole
Proprietorships, Partnerships and Corporations. Students will do payroll, adjusting and closing entries,
uncollectible accounts receivable, accounting for plant assets and depreciation,
inventory and accrued revenue and expenses.
Students
thinking of majoring in business in college should take this course.
APPLIED
BUSINESS AND COMMUNICATION
I
E, Grades
11, 12
1.0 Credit
Prerequisite: Consent of
Instructor
This
will be an interdisciplinary course taught by the Business and English
departments. Course focus will be
on publication and marketing the yearbook, school newspaper and other projects.
Experience in writing, desktop publishing, computer graphics and
photography will be included.
APPLIED
BUSINESS & COMMUNICATIONS II
E, Grades
12
1.0 Credit
Prerequisite: Applied
Business & Communication I & Consent
of Instructor
Taught
in conjunction with Applied Business & Communication I, students in Applied
Business & Communication II will assume greater responsibility and
leadership roles (i.e. Editorial position).
JUNIOR
ACHIEVEMENT ECONOMICS
E, Grades
11, 12
0.5 Credit
Semester I
An
introduction to economics. This
course, offered in cooperation with Junior Achievement, emphasizes a personal
approach to economics. Local
business people are part of the program. Students
participate in the Stock market game and a computer simulation where they
produce, market, and price a product competing with the other companies for
market share.
BUSINESS
LAW
E, Grades
11, 12
0.5 Credit
Semester
II
Business
Law is designed to acquaint the students with the basic legal principles
relevant to each individual in his triple role as citizen, consumer, and
employee. Content includes the
origin of law, the court systems, criminal and civil law, rights and duties,
basic elements of contracts, consumer protection, employer-