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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.

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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!  ;-)