SCHOOL OF BUSINESS (SOB)

Treston Senior High School prepares students for higher education, employment, or entrepreneurship. The first year of Senior High School develops the student’s knowledge, skills, and potentials through hands-on learning and innovative teaching strategies. The Academic Track - Accountancy, Business, and Management (ABM) strand focuses on the basic concepts of financial management, business management, corporate operations, as well as related aspects to these central fields. There are four specializations in ABM during this level: Organization and Management, Applied Economics, Fundamentals of Accountancy, Business, and Management I, and Principles of Marketing that are specifically tailored for students to excel in their chosen field of specialization.

In the last year of Senior High School, Grade 12 students finish meeting their graduation requirements. The Accountancy, Business, and Management (ABM) strand specializations that they will obtain on this level are the Fundamentals of Accountancy, Business, and Management II, Business Finance, Business Ethics and Social Responsibility, Business Math, and Business Enterprise Simulation to apply their competencies in authentic business environments. ABM would lead students to careers in management and accounting.

The general education courses introduce students to various domains of knowledge and ways of comprehending social and natural realities. In this program, intellectual competencies, such as critical, analytical and creative thinking, and multiple forms of expression are developed. The course also enhances a student’s civic capacities needed as a member of the community, country, and the world.

The Accountancy core courses teach the students a wide range of accountancy skills by instilling in them the basic, as well as the more advanced knowledge, tools and techniques that are needed to become excellent accountants. The students will learn the topics contained within the different areas or branches of the accountancy program.

The Accountancy professional core courses provide proper teachings and training in the more advanced and multifaceted dimensions of the accounting subject. These courses complete the technical and ethical skills and competencies of the students.

The additional professional courses widen the technical and values-based skills of the students. Learning is strengthened by exposure to actual accounting functions.