Business Department Blog
This year like every year, the Business Department means
Business! We are off to a great start
with some new changes as well as some of our old standbys. (With a little twist
of course to help keep it real!)
School Store
Have you been to the new and improved school store yet this
year? Tell us what you think. We are working hard to supply you will all
your classroom needs as well as the attire you need to give you the Swag when
you’re at the game! The School Store is
located in the cafeteria. We are open
before school, during lunch, as well as during special events. Come take a look!
Accounting I
Is it a Debit?
Is it
a Credit?
Now that we know how to
analyze a transaction we are ready to record our business transactions in our
very first accounting form—the journal!
Accounting II
Do you know what happens when a customer refuses to pay an
accounts receivable? Accounting II students are learning how to write off those
bad debts.
Alphabetic
Speedwriting
In Alphabetic Speedwriting we are reviewing for our first
Unit Test by playing Alphabetic BINGO. We will finish the unit by looking up
lyrics to our favorite songs on the internet and transcribing the lyrics into
alphabetic speedwriting.
m upda|s | cm!
More updates to come!
Business Management
We are working together in
teams to create oral and visual presentations of a variety of topics learned to
date. Do you know the geometric shape of
most levels of management? Do you know
which one of the five tasks is most difficult to perform as a manager? Why?
Do you know why women and minorities often have to fight the glass
ceiling principle? To find answers to
these questions, AND MORE…talk to any student in Business Management.
Computer Applications
After finishing our PowerPoint unit, we chose a persuasive
topic to research and then create a 5-7 minute PowerPoint presentation that we
will present to the class. We will use all the features taught in class in the
culminating project. These features include, but are not limited to charts,
tables, smartart, pictures, animations, transitions, and designs. This is an awesome class!
Consumer Math
We spent
the first week doing “basic” math review—trying to remember the basic
elementary facts we had learned so long ago—way before calculators arrived in
our lives. Then we progressed to what is involved in our daily lives—paychecks,
hours worked, overtime, salary. We are working on figuring out weekly,
biweekly, and monthly paychecks, as well as average hourly wages. So if you
need help figuring out your paycheck, just ask one of the Consumer Math
students.
Diversified
Occupations
Have you been to Wendy’s lately? How about Giant, or Lion Pharmacy? Did you take your dog to Petco for a
grooming? If you have been to any of
these places you may have seen me, I am a Diversified Occupations Student and
I’m getting ½ credit for going to work!
How cool is that? It’s like
getting paid to go to class! (And I get
to leave school early… everyday!)
Introduction to
Business
We have been quite busy learning about basic needs and wants
of individuals and how those items determine production in different economic
systems throughout the world. Learning
about different systems is vital to understanding our fit (individual and
country) in today’s global marketplace.
Marketing
The Marketing class has spent the first couple weeks of
school learning what Marketing really is and how it is involved with our daily
lives. We are busy putting together
projects dealing with Market Segmentation. Retailing is being discussed and how
demographics, geographics, and psychographics are used in the decision of where
and when to open retail stores.
Personal Law
Right? Wrong? How do we know who/what is right and who/what
is wrong? Can we say one is right and one is wrong based on our own biases? People
don’t always do what is considered right so laws were created to help society.
Where did those laws come from? Who makes those laws? We have identified 5
sources of US law and narrowed down all rules/laws to three simple words: fair,
safe, and respect.
Word Processing I
We have completed learning the keyboard by touch. We are
able to key each letter by feel without looking at the keyboard and are now
able to “feel” when we make a mistake instead of having to see the mistake
first. That’s Pretty Cool!!! Now that we have the accuracy, it is time to work
on increasing speed.
YES – Your
Employability Skills
What color are you?
Blue, Green, Gold or Orange? What
type of job fits your personality color?
We have been studying the personality colors to help us answer these
questions and many more. We use
personality colors every day in our lives, not just at work. Who are you going
to call when you run out of gas. Want to
know the answer? Ask a YES student!
P.S. Don’t call your
Gold friend unless you do it two weeks before you actually run out! ;-)
