MCHS Business and
Investing 101
Credit: 1.0 Grades: 10-12 Graduation
Credit: Math
Accounting I has been designed to teach students how to prepare, read, and interpret simple business reports and financial statements. Students will master the techniques necessary to keep a set of books for a sole proprietorship and partnership. Automated accounting procedures are also introduced along with "hands on" accounting experiences. The course is highly recommended for the college bound student preparing for a business career. Accounting I does count as a math credit for MCHS students.
Accounting 1
Credit: 1.0 Grades: 10-12
Graduation Credit: Math
Accounting I has been designed to teach students how to prepare, read, and interpret simple business reports and financial statements. Students will master the techniques necessary to keep a set of books for a sole proprietorship and partnership. Automated accounting procedures are also introduced along with "hands on" accounting experiences. The course is highly recommended for the college bound student preparing for a business career. Accounting I does count as a math credit for MCHS students.
Accounting II
Credit: 1.0 Grades: 11-12
Graduation Credit: Elective
Accounting II will develop skills essential to accounting practice, to recognize and apply proper principles to any system of keeping records for business transactions, and to gain a knowledge and understanding of business papers pertaining to the principles of partnership and corporate accounting. Automated accounting systems are introduced and use is made of the computer.
Business and Personal Law
Credit: 0.5 Grades: 10-12
Graduation Credit: Elective
Business and Personal Law's major emphasis will be in contract law-the ground rules we use to define our private rights and duties. The course will include an introduction to criminal, civil, and procedural law. The student will also learn about problems in society, classifications of crimes, trial procedures, the law of negligence, marriage and divorce, rental agreements, and other consumer and family issues related to the law.
Personal Financial Management
Credit: 0.5 Grades: 10-12
Graduation Credit: Elective
In Personal Financial Management, students learn how to prepare a wide range of financial records for personal use, and they become familiar with the procedures related to personal money management. Although Personal Financial Management is an elective course offered through the Business Department, it is a fundamental course that helps all students deal with their personal finances. Students learn how to maintain checking and savings accounts, how to prepare personal budgets, how to keep track of money received and spent, and where to protect their personal ownership records. In addition, Personal Financial Management provides students with many valuable consumer skills. Students learn about the importance of using credit wisely, the expense of using credit, and the effective management of credit.
Business English
Credit: 1.0 Grade: 12
Graduation Credit: English
Business English, taken instead of English 12, can be elected by seniors who are specializing in business education, anticipating a business career, and/or planning to attend a business, trade, or technical school. This course stresses a variety of communication skills; listening, speaking, all-purpose and technical writing, researching, evaluating, and proofreading, and editing. A research paper or a simulation project will be completed under the direction of the Business English teacher.
Entrepreneurship
Credit: 1.0 Grades: 11-12
Graduation Credit: Elective
Accounting II will develop skills essential to accounting practice, to recognize and apply proper principles to any system of keeping records for business transactions, and to gain a knowledge and understanding of business papers pertaining to the principles of partnership and corporate accounting. Automated accounting systems are introduced and use is made of the computer.