Business Courses
74 - INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS (18 Weeks)
Credit: .5
Grade Placement: 9, 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: None
Course Description: This class is designed to provide students with the skills needed effectively live in our world. It introduces students to how business functions in today's society and will provide a foundation for other business classes.
Areas of Study Include:
- A business's role in our economy:economic resources and systems, supply and demand, measuring economic activity, and governments role in business.
- How a business can be organized: types and structures of large and small businesses, becoming an entrepreneur, management and leadership, human resources basics
- Business in a Global Economy: international business basics
- Career Planning in a Global Economy
- Making Consumer Decisions
69 - ACCOUNTING 1 (36 Weeks)
Credit: 1 Unit
Grade Placement: 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: None
Course Description: Interested in having your own business someday? Planning on a degree in a business related field? Or do you just need to know how to maintain a checking account? If you can answer “yes” to any of these questions, then Accounting 1 is for you. In addition to learning how to keep necessary financial records for a proprietorship, partnership, and corporation, there are many practical applications such as understanding payroll deductions.
Areas of Study Include:
--Journalizing transactions using the general and special journals
--Posting to the general and subsidiary ledgers
--Preparing financial statements
--Processing payroll
--Petty cash and cash register systems
--Dealing with uncollectible accounts
--Plant assets and depreciation
--Inventory controls
--Voucher system
--Accrued revenue and expenses
70 - ACCOUNTING 2 (36 Weeks)
Credit: 1 Unit
Grade Placement: 11, 12
Prerequisite: Successful completion of Accounting 1
Course Description: This advanced course is primarily for students with determined career objectives in the accounting professions or for those who will be pursuing a degree in some area of business. Accounting II begins with an overview of Accounting 1 by working through the accounting cycle for a departmentalized business organized as a corporation.
Areas of Study Include:
--Corporate accounting- paying dividends acquiring capital, financial analysis, and reporting
--General accounting adjustments- uncollectible accounts, depreciation, notes
--Management accounting- inventory and budgetary planning and control
--Cost accounting- for merchandising and manufacturing businesses
--Other accounting systems- not-for-profit organizations
71 - INTRODUCTION TO ACCOUNTING CE (18 Weeks)
Credit: .5 Unit
Grade Placement: 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: Math Placement score, Accounting 1 Completion with a C or better
Course Description: This fast paced college level accounting class matches up with Clinton Community College’s “Introduction to Accounting ACC:111”. Students enrolled will automatically receive dual credit. Designed for the student who may or may not have had high school bookkeeping desiring to enter office employment. Emphasis is placed on learning the accounting cycle and structured systems and records usually incorporated by small businesses and professional offices. Daily assignments and problems completed utilizing computer accounting software provide an opportunity for students to apply those concepts learned throughout the course and also indicates to the instructor that competencies have been met. Students will need to complete the ALEKS, a college based math placement test, test to be approved.
Areas of Study Include:
--Analyzing transactions
--Depreciation procedures
--Journalizing and posting
--Reconciling bank statements
--Adjusting entries and the worksheet
--Establishing/replenishing a petty cash system
--Financial statements and the closing process
--Payroll accounting
67 - BUSINESS LAW (18 weeks)
Credit: .5 Unit
Grade Placement: 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: None
Course Description:
What is “The Law”? How are laws made, changed and interpreted? How do laws influence the business and personal decisions that individuals make? These are some of the questions that you will explore in this class. You will also learn
to analyze and summarize complex legal situations, be able to defend your position using the legal principles, and try your hand at being a trial lawyer in the Mock Trial.
Areas of Study Include:
-- Ethics and the Law
-- Sources of the Law
-- Structure of the Courts
-- Civil Case Law
-- Criminal Case Law
-- Completion of a Mock Trial
-- Contract Law
-- Wills and Trusts
68 - MARKETING 1 (18 weeks)
Credit: .5 Unit
Grade Placement: 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: Sophomore Status
Course Description: If you are interest in preparing for a career in Retailing, Sales, Marketing Research, Product Management, Promotion or Top Management, this course will give you a firm foundation.
Areas of Study Include:
- Marketing is All Around Us
- Basic Marketing Concepts
- The Free Enterprise System
- Global Economies
- Using Math in Sales
- Pricing Math
- Price Planning
- Pricing Strategies
68 -MARKETING 2 (18 weeks)
Credit: .5 Unit
Grade Placement: 10, 11, 12
Prerequisite: Marketing 1
Course Description: Continuation of Marketing 1. If you are interest in preparing for a career in Retailing, Sales, Marketing Research, Product Management, Promotion or Top Management, this course will give you a firm foundation.
Areas of Study Include:
- Marketing Research
- Conducting Marketing Research
- Promotional Concepts and Strategies
- Visual Merchandising and Display
- Advertising Media
- Preparing Print Advertisements
- Preparing TV & Radio Commercials