High Business Management and Law

Segment One

• Business ownership
• The business cycle
• Responsibilities of business owners
• Types of manufacturing
• Supply and demand
• Trade barriers
• International markets
• Selecting vendors
• Maintaining inventory
• Minimizing shrinkage and theft
• Types of payment
• Customer service
• Creating a job description
• Interviewing potential employees
• Hiring and training procedures
• Salary and benefits
• Positive work habits

Segment Two

• Roles and responsibilities of a manager
• Obligations of a business owner
• Making difficult decisions
• Dealing with conflict
• Training, promoting, and transferring employees
• Supervising employees
• Employment termination
• Startup and operating costs
• Finding funding
• Financial management
• Basic accounting
• Workplace safety
• Maintenance records
• Government and regulatory agencies
• Permitting/licensing
• Taxation
• Insurance
• Contracts and negotiability

Besides engaging students in challenging curriculum, the course guides students to reflect on their learning and evaluate their progress through a variety of assessments. Assessments can be in the form of practice lessons, multiple choice questions, writing assignments, projects, research papers, oral assessments, and discussions. This course will use the state-approved grading scale. Each course contains a mandatory final exam or culminating project that will be weighted at 20% of the student’s overall grade.***

***Proctored exams can be requested by FLVS at any time and for any reason in an effort to ensure academic integrity. When a proctored exam is administered to assess a student’s integrity, the student must pass the exam with at least a 59.5% to earn credit for the course.

To achieve success, students are expected to submit work in each course weekly. Students can learn at their own pace; however, “any pace” still means that students must make progress in the course every week. To measure learning, students complete self-checks, practice lessons, multiple choice questions, projects, discussion-based assessments, and discussions. Students are expected to maintain regular contact with teachers; the minimum requirement is monthly. When teachers, students, and parents work together, students are successful.