This course provides students the skills needed to effectively organize, develop, and manage a business.  They will understand how the market economy and ownership leads to wealth creation.  Students will learn not only the skills necessary to become a successful business person but also the attitudes, characteristics, and techniques needed to succeed.  Personal financial literacy will be explored to help them meet their financial goals in life.   Students will build analytical skills through solving complex problems and making sound decisions in order to produce a viable business.

In this course, emphasis is placed on the functions of business management: organization, management, finance, marketing, information technology, product/service management, distribution, promotion, and selling.  Additional topics to be covered include the government's role in a business, the assessment of personal skills, the components of the free enterprise system and its place in our global economy, human relations and interpersonal skills, career planning, the importance of business ethics, and the role quality and service play in business.

(DECA approved course)