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Economics

 

 

Personal Finance

 

Accounting I

 

International Business

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PERSONAL FINANCE

 

This course explores areas that are useful to every person in his or her daily life now and in the future.  Students will work on classroom activities that involve managing their finances, budgeting, using credit, banking, and other pertinent information essential to personal financial success.  Students will have the opportunity to work with various federal income tax forms and learn how to manually file their taxes.  Relevant real-world applications in the form of practice sets will provide the student with extended application of the course content.  Computer-oriented applications in the form of Understanding Taxes and Quicken are incorporated in the course.

 
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Computer Applications

The content of this course covers Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MovieMaker and Access using MicroSoft Office 2007.  Students learn to create many types of documents in Word including letters, envelopes, memos, resumes, reports, and fax cover sheets.  In Excel, they learn how to enter, calculate, manipulate, and analyze data as well as embed charts into Excel and Word documents.  In PowerPoint, students learn how to hyperlink websites into presentations, add sound, and animate their presentations.  In MovieMaker, students create a short movie with sounds as well as transitions.  Lastly, students learn to create a database in Access. They explore how to add, change, and delete data as well as sort, filter, and create queries. 

 

 
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International Business
 
In this course you will learn about the nature of international business.  Areas of focus are international trade and the international business environment.  There is emphasis placed upon importating, exporting, currency exchanges, and marketing as well.