This year-long course covers the fundamentals of business and marketing. It begins with the basics of workplace safety, ethics, and leadership. Students are introduced to business finance, economics, and cover microeconomics as well. Major topics of study in this course are career readiness, foundations of marketing, market research and analysis, and entrepreneurship. Students will learn valuable lessons to enhance their personal financial life with topics on income, decision-making, and personal money management. Various student organizations and resources for career development will be explored throughout the course. Participation in student organizations, field experiences, internships, and job shadowing is ongoing. Students will continue to develop skills toward meeting requirements for the ESB credential.

This course focuses on finance and management. It begins with a brief review of safety and other topics from the first year. Students will continue their study of economics with topics on international economics and macroeconomics. The majority of this course is spent on financial and managerial accounting, budgets, forecasting in finance, applied human resource management, strategy, and operations management. Personal finance topics on purchasing, financial institutions, credit, and risk management are also covered. Students will develop educational, career, and professional plans in the area of business, marketing, and/or finance as they finish the course by exploring the employment opportunities in business. They will continue to master skills toward meeting requirements for the ESB credential and heavily participate in student organizations, field experiences, internships, and job shadowing.