Introduction to Business
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Introduction to Business serves as a foundation course for the business curriculum. Students explore financial topics from a business perspective and also from their roles as consumers. The first semester curriculum encourages students to develop a basic understanding of the principles of economics and how economic decisions affect individual consumers, business, countries, and international competition. Through simulated group activities, students create a partnership to apply the concepts, process, and skills used to identify new ideas, opportunities, and methods and to create or start a new finance project or venture. Students are required to prepare a simulated business budget, identify human resource needs and develop a marketing plan for the partnerships.
The second semester focuses on career development and personal finance topics. Students utilize the Montana Career Information System to research careers, develop a course of study to reach their career goals, and to prepare résumés and letters of application for more immediate job opportunities. Personal finance skills are introduced as students learn about consumer buying, money management, and banking services. |