Teacher: Mr. Kelly Kronbauer

Room 205

Phone Number: (509) 682-4061

E-mail: kronk@chelanschools.org

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Each student will:

1. Identify individual strengths, weaknesses, aptitudes and interests
2. Understand the types of business ownership in a free market economy
3. Understand the interrelationships among business within a community
4. Develop and write a business plan
5. Develop and write a marketing plan
6. Recognize a company’s obligations to customers, other businesses and government
7. Understand good human relations
8. Appreciate the need for accurate record keeping and well organized files
9. Recognize the importance of productivity
10. Make individual and group decisions and accept the consequences of those decisions
11. Plan and organize time, supplies, and work areas
12. Maintain checking account, use bank services, complete time cards and determine pay.
13. Write business correspondence with proper formatting skills and current technology
14. Control accounts payable and receivable accounts for a business
15. Research information to prepare written and oral reports as well as use reference sources
16. Prepare financial statements and determine lending needs and how to secure a loan
17. Establish a security plan and determine insurance needs for a business

TEXTBOOKS:

Mean Jeans Manufacturing Company Business Community Simulation, Marie Weeks and Golda Boyer, Southwestern / Thomson Learning 2002

Entrepreneurship: Business 2000, Southwestern Publishing Company, Cynthia Greene 2001

PROFESSIONALISM :

Professionalism is an important part of any career – especially in the business world!. Each student must learn how to be professional in many different roles. Students who come to class prepared, on-time, and ready to learn are considered “Professional.” Students will be rewarded and disciplined according to their professional behavior in this course. Points will be added or subtracted from their notebook total for the following:

• Extra Credit (+)
• Being tardy (-)
• Any reason to make an “Out of Class” trips (-)

LATE ASSIGNMENTS

• LATE WORK WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED for any reason except excused absences.
• It is your responsibility to make up missed work and tests. Check your time tracker for assignments and make arrangements with Mr. Kronbauer for lab use if needed.
• You will have (2) days after any absent period to make up work after an excused absence. Work handed in past that deadline will be given NO credit. (If extra time is needed due to special circumstances, make prior arrangements with Mr. Kronbauer)
• Please note in order to receive full credit when handing in late work, you must write, “Late” and the date(s) of our excused absence.

GRADING CRITERIA

Notebooks 50%

Tests / Projects 40%

Leadership 10%

100%

GRADE EQUIVILENT BY PERCENTAGE

A 93-100% C 73-76%

A- 90-92% C- 70-72%

B+ 87-89% D+ 67-69%

B 83-86% D 60-68%

B- 80-82% F 0-59%

C+ 77-79%

PARENTS

If you have any questions concerning your child’s grade, please feel free and contact me. My school phone number and e-mail address are listed on the top page.

Please sign below that you have read and understand these expectations.

Please sign and return by __________________________.

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Student Signature Date

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Parent Signature Date

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Keep other page in your notebook as a reference!