Accounting and financial services

GPA:  No WEIGHTED:  No

PREREQUISITE:  None

In Foundations of Business Communication and Technologies, students implement personal and interpersonal skills to strengthen individual performance in the workplace and in society and make a successful transition to the workforce and postsecondary education. Students apply technical skills to address business applications of emerging technologies, create word-processing documents, develop a spreadsheet, formulate a database, and make an electronic presentation using appropriate software. 

COURSE NOTES: This class may count towards the JISD required technology credit. 

GPA:  No WEIGHTED:  No

PREREQUISITE:  None

RECOMMENDED PREREQUISITES:  Principles of Business, Marketing, and Finance 

In Accounting I, students will investigate the field of accounting, including how it is impacted by industry standards as well as economic, financial, technological, international, social, legal, and ethical factors. Students will reflect on this knowledge as they engage in the process of recording, classifying, summarizing, analyzing, and communicating accounting information. Students will formulate and interpret financial information for use in management decision making. Accounting includes such activities as bookkeeping, systems design, analysis, and interpretation of accounting information. 

COURSE NOTES: This class may count towards the JISD required technology credit. Effective for the 2024-2025 school year, this course will no longer receive weighted credit. 

GPA:  No WEIGHTED:  No

PREREQUISITE:  Accounting I 

In Accounting II, students will continue the investigation of the field of accounting, including how it is impacted by industry standards as well as economic, financial, technological, international, social, legal, and ethical factors. Students will reflect on this knowledge as they engage in various managerial, financial, and operational accounting activities. Students will formulate, interpret, and communicate financial information for use in management decision making. Students will use equations, graphical representations, accounting tools, spreadsheet software, and accounting systems in real-world situations to maintain, monitor, control, and plan the use of financial resources. 

COURSE NOTES:  This course satisfies a math credit requirement for students on the Foundation High School Program. 

GPA:  No WEIGHTED:  No

PREREQUISITE:  None 

RECOMMENDED PREREQUISITE:  Principles of Business, Marketing, and Finance

In Money Matters, students will investigate money management from a personal financial perceptive. Students will apply critical-thinking skills to analyze financial options based on current and projected economic factors. Students will gain knowledge and skills necessary to establish short-term and long-term financial goals. Students will examine various methods of achieving short-term and long-term financial goals through various methods such as investing, tax planning, asset allocating, risk management, retirement planning, and estate planning. 

GPA:  No WEIGHTED:  No

The Practicum in Entrepreneurship provides students the opportunity to apply classroom learnings and experiences to real-world business problems and opportunities, while expanding their skill sets and professional relationships as a real or simulated business owner versus the experience one would have as an employee. Students will prepare for an entrepreneurial career in their area of interest in their career cluster and build on and apply the knowledge and skills gained from courses taken in an array of career areas. Practicum experiences occur in a paid or unpaid arrangement and a variety of locations appropriate to the nature and level of the student’s need for work-based learning experience. Students implement personal and interpersonal skills to strengthen individual performance in the workplace and in society and to make a successful transition to the workforce or postsecondary education. It is recommended that students are paired with local business owners or employers in their specific industry program of study. 2 credits 

GPA:  No WEIGHTED:  No

PREREQUISITE:  None

RECOMMENDED PREREQUISITE: None

In Entrepreneurship I, students will gain the knowledge and skills needed to become an

entrepreneur. Students will learn the key concepts necessary to begin and operate a business. The

primary focus of the course is to help students identify the types of business structures, understand

the components of a business plan, determine feasibility of an idea using research, and develop

and present a business concept. In addition, students will understand the basics of management,

accounting, finance, marketing, risk, and product development.