Grade 9/10
Course Learning Goals:
- Personal Finance: I can develop my own short- and long-term goals to guide my Financial Planning and Money Management Skill Building.
- Fundamentals of Business: I can use appropriate business language to describe/evaluate business structures, opportunities and ethics in both local and international settings
- Functions of Business: I can identify and explain the importance of all the major areas of running a business; ranging from product design and Production through to Sales, Advertising and Financial record keeping.
- Entrepreneurship: I can view challenges as opportunities and use my own entrepreneurial traits and skills to develop an idea into a business concept.
BBI is the foundation courses for all future business classes. It begins with a one month focus on Personal Finance and Money Management then moves on to cover Accounting, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Human Resources, Law, International Business and Business Fundamentals. Offered in both Grades 9 and 10, it can only be taken once for credit.
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Fall 2018 Semester Resources
Course Outline
Day 1 Slideshow
Unit 1 - Personal Finance and Money Management
- Counterfeit Detection Resources
- Personal Finance Slideshow
- Tool for Choosing a Bank Account
- Comparison Shopping Project
- Budget Project
- Sample Budget Project (Hicken's Sample)
- Student Sample (Good project - only missing Tuition figure for school)
- Ontario Energy Board bill calculator
- Jr. Stock Market Contest.
- Click here to join our class game. Game password is "rsbroyals"
- Alternatively, Click here and read the document on joining/trading.
- See in class instructions on Trading. Watch as many of the videos as you wish.
- You must execute 25 trades by the end of the contest (April 18th, 2020) for full marks. There will be a winner for each class and an overall course winner.
- Client Profile Project
- Tax Rates - Federal and Provincial
- Online Risk Profile Quiz
- Retirement Lifestyle Quiz
- Financial Knowledge Quizzes
- RESP Calculator
- Unit 1 Test Details
- Format: 40 M/C and T/F, 10 Matching and Advising on Investments, 13 Assessing Income and Credit Worthiness (3C's), 3 Bonus Marks - Counterfeit Detection
- Unit Review 1
- Larger Unit 1 Review (4-page one handed out in class)
Unit 2 - Business Fundamentals
- Business Fundamentals Slideshow
- Unit 2 Notes (to be filled in using above Slideshow)
- Franchise Project handout
- CFA.ca research link
- Sample Project
- Presentations begin Friday, October 25th, 2019
- Culture Coaches (Project details - ignore the 'presentation' stuff' - this is hand-in only)
- Worksheet
- CIA World Factbook (for country research)
- Unit 2 Test Details
- 65 MC/TF based on terms in Review package and 1 Supply/Demand graph with Market Equilibrium graphed on it already.
- Short Answer questions based on taking a Canadian Franchise of your choice and expanding it to a country of your choice.
- Review and Review Answer Key
- Functions of Business Slideshow
- Blank Unit Notes
- Marketing Unit Blank Notes
- Celebrity PLC Project
- Sample PLC 1 - New Celebrity
- Sample PLC 2 - Established Celebrity
- Product Project
- Accounting Templates
- Accounting Review
Unit 4 - Entrepreneurship
Course Culminating:
Sherway Gardens Trip
- Sherway Gardens Worksheet
- Vaughan Mills Worksheet
- Stone Road Mall version * a bit old, but you can update for new kiosks
Course Culminating Project (Franchise project) includes timeline and rubric
Course Culminating Project (Chocolate Bar) includes timeline and rubric
Course Culminating Project (Chocolate Bar) includes timeline and rubric
- Exam Format - 100 Multiple Choice questions.
- Approximately 85 will be drawn from review package (above)
- There will be a balance sheet and income statement
- There will also be a reading with questions