Business

Accounting

Length of Class: Year
Prerequisite:       None
Grade Level:        10, 11, 12

Accounting is the “language of business”. This is a good introduction to any post-secondary business course. It includes the basics of bookkeeping, including journalizing, posting, preparing financial statements, adjusting and closing entries for a sole proprietorship, partnership and corporation. Students will also use an automated accounting program and/or business simulations. Dual Credit through Great Falls College MSU is available for this course for Grades 11 and 12.

Accounting II

Length of Class: Year
Prerequisite:       Accounting I
Grade Level:        10, 11, 12

As an advanced continuation from Accounting I, students will cover Chapters 17 through 24 in the text, Century 21 Accounting 9E , South-Western. Students will be given business simulations that will follow the units presented in the course.  Topics covered will be:   Merchandising Business Organized as a Corporation, Additional Accounting Procedures, Partnerships, and Recording International/Internet Sales. Dual Credit through Great Falls College MSU is available for this course for Grades 11 and 12.  

Business Management

Length of Class: Semester
Prerequisite: Any successfully completed business class
Grade level: 10, 11, 12

Students can expect to exercise their leadership skills by becoming an office manager within Bison Business. Being a Bison Business manager will instill a general competency in meeting the challenges of management and will facilitate students’ development of their own personal career aspirations. Tasks include: motivate employees, keep employees on task, monitor attendance and promptness of employees, maintain a positive climate, set up and keep the employees’ file system up to date, and write reports to document management accomplishments. Students will also study various functions of management, management theory, organized labor, human resources, business ethics, conflict resolution, personal management, and levels of management.
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Entrepreneurship/Business Law

Length of Class: Semester
Prerequisite: None
Grade level: 9, 10, 11, 12

How about running your own business? Entrepreneurship/Business Law introduces students to the concept of starting or running their own business and how the law relates to business. Students will examine how to maintain integrity and make ethical decisions for their business and the community. Students will evaluate the role of the entrepreneur in the economy, and they will take risk assessments and personality profiles to determine if they have what it takes to be an
entrepreneur. Students will review how business law in America works to maintain a competitive and ethical framework while conducting independent and group activities.
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Financial Tech Skills (This course is required for graduation)

Length of Class: Semester
Prerequisite: 25 wpm keyboarding recommended
Grade Level: 11, 12
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In this course students learn financial/life skills while learning Microsoft Office software. The Microsoft Office applications include Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint. The financial/life skills include the following: cover letters, resumes, personal budgeting, college selection, insurance, savings and checking accounts, achieving a good credit score, credit, travel expenses, online safety, and career exploration. All of these elements will be emphasized through application exercises and projects.

Course Syllabi: Mrs. Anderson | Main Syllabus

Information Processing

Length of Class: Semester
Prerequisite: None
Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12

In today’s world, good keyboarding skills are becoming increasingly important. Being able to type quickly means saved time. This course emphasizes building speed and accuracy using the touch system of keyboarding for personal use. Letters, memos, tables and reports will be introduced. Proofreading and following instructions will be stressed in learning to set up special applications on the computer. This course is a helpful prerequisite before taking other computer courses.
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Introduction to Business

Length of Class: Semester
Prerequisite: None
Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12

Not sure about how business works? Introduction to Business is a course that creates a foundation in business know-how for students. Topics range from surveying business careers, economic education, business management, globalization, business finance, marketing, and human resources. Various forms of technology will be highlighted to expose students to the emerging technologies impacting the business world. This course builds a foundation for further studies in business and helps students develop employability skills required in their everyday lives. This course offers a multitude of group activities in which students team up to overcome problems with business solutions.
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Marketing

Length of Class: Semester
Prerequisite: None
Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12

Creativity anyone? This course offers students opportunities to develop career-related skills, civic responsibility, and leadership competencies by participating in a variety of activities such as hands-on classroom exercises, co-curricular student organizations, school-based enterprises, and community service. This class provides students with a foundation of business knowledge in free enterprise, an understanding of general business management practices, and an awareness of core marketing functions. Subject matter includes the economic importance of marketing (getting products and services from producers to consumers), a study of consumer motivation, marketing trends, product planning and research, advertising, promotion, direct sales, and careers in marketing. Students will create a product that will be judged in our Shark Tank.
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Multimedia

Length of Class: Semester
Prerequisite: None
Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12

Students in this course will design web pages and create fantastic artistic graphic designs. This course includes an introduction to HTML, Dreamweaver, PowerPoint, PhotoShop, InDesign, and CorelDraw software for design and multimedia projects. The course will provide students with hands-on knowledge of computer-aided graphics, digital photography, presentation software, web-page design, Internet usage, and desktop publishing. This course is designed for both college- prep and vocationally-oriented students.
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Personal Finance

Length of Class: Semester
Prerequisite: None
Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12

Do you want to be a millionaire, or know how to overcome an economic depression? Personal Finance is a great course for students to learn how to prepare themselves financially for life. This course will introduce students to topics such as personal decision making, earning a living, managing finances, budgeting, saving and investing, purchasing as a consumer, banking, using credit, protecting against risk and learning about stocks by playing the stock market game. Not to mention, we will cover a simple plan in how to become a millionaire. Students also help run the DECA student store.
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Work Experience

Length of Class: Semester/Year
Prerequisite: None
Grade Level: 10 (with instructor permission), 11, 12

Earn school credit while gaining on-the-job experience in a bona fide employment setting. This course is for those students who are presently employed and working at least 11 hours a week. It is understood that there is much to be learned from being employed, and this course reinforces what is being learned in the work setting. Each student will meet with the instructor once a week, complete a weekly on-line assignment and bring in verification of work hours.
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Business Independent Study

Length of Class: One or two semesters
Prerequisite:       Business instructor approval
Grade Level:        10, 11, 12

This course has students work on and complete real-world projects in the field of business. The projects are based on needs and requirements from the community.  Students will work closely with business instructors and project leaders.

Business Department (DECA) School Store

Length of Class: One or two semesters
Prerequisite:       Business instructor approval
Grade Level:        10, 11, 12

This course has students working hands-on in the Business Department School Store. The store is managed and operated by students with the supervision of business teachers. You will decide which products are sold, market to peers, create signs and banners, and work a point of sale cash register system. Students gain work experience, management and leadership skills while earning high school CTE credit.