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2023 - 2024 School Year
Welcome to the Fall 2023 Semester
International Business
In International Business, we will be discussing the ways multi-national businesses conduct operations in our rapidly changing business and political environments. We will discuss how they may differ from businesses that choose to maintain their businesses in just one country. Even with that, many domestic businesses may feel the impact of changing taxes, tariffs, or governmental regulation changes. Items such as these need to be considered by a business as they decide whether or not to become an international operation.
We will also learn about the stock market since the stocks of many international businesses are sold here in the United States. This is especially important when you look at what has happened to stock markets around the would in the last few weeks because of world events can have an effect on the value of different international companies.
Introduction to Business
This course will teach the basics about business and how it impacts on many aspects of our lives. We will start with topics such as the differences between wants, needs, goods, and services. From there we will discuss ethics, entrepreneurship, and how to buy goods and services.
Some of the most important topics we will discuss though are related to Money Management. We will look at how to save and invest money and the differences between the two, We will also look at how to use Credit wisely after we discuss how to go about getting Credit in the first place. There are other topics that we will discuss as we go through the course of the semester.
Entrepreneurship and Business Management
This course will cover some business basics and then we will look at the reasons why someone would want to start a business, the challenges they may face, and the possible successes they may have. We will look at what makes some business ideas successful while others fail.