The author's goals in writing Exploring Business were simple: (1) introduce students to business in an exciting way and (2) provide faculty with a fully developed teaching package that allows them to do the former. Toward those ends, the following features are included in this text:1- Integrated (Optional) Nike Case Study: A Nike case study is available for instructors who wish to introduce students to business using an exciting and integrated case. Through an in-depth study of a real company, students learn about the functional areas of business and how these areas fit together. Studying a dynamic organization on a real-time basis allows students to discover the challenges that it faces, and exposes them to critical issues affecting the business, such as globalization, ethics and social responsibility, product innovation, diversity, supply chain management, and e-business.2- A Progressive (Optional) Business Plan: Having students develop a business plan in the course introduces students to the excitement and challenges of starting a business and helps them discover how the functional areas of business interact. This textbook package includes an optionalintegrated business plan project modeled after one refined by the author and her teaching team over the past ten years.3- AACSB Emphasis: The text provides end-of-chapter questions, problems, and cases that ask students to do more than regurgitate information. Most require students to gather information, assess a situation, think about it critically, and reach a conclusion. Each chapter presents ten Questions and Problems as well as five cases on areas of skill and knowledge endorsed by AACSB: Learning on the Web, Career Opportunities, The Ethics Angle, Team-Building Skills, and The Global View. More than 70% of end-of-chapter items help students build skills in areas designated as critical by AACSB, including analytical skills, ethical awareness and reasoning abilities, multicultural understanding and globalization, use of information technology, and communications and team oriented skills. Each AACSB inspired exercise is identified by an AACSB tag and a note indicating the relevant skill area.4- Author-Written Instructor Manual (IM): For the past eleven years, Karen Collins has been developing, coordinating and teaching (to over 3,500 students) an Introduction to Business course. Sections of the course have been taught by a mix of permanent faculty, graduate students, and adjuncts.

This lesson will teach you the difference between different investments, what they are and the risk involved with each.

This lesson/activity is designed for students to explore independently the accounting career and the requirements for obtaining a CPA. Students will use the Start Here Go Places web site fueled by the AICPA. It is a lesson that students could begin on a day when the teacher is absent or it could be done completely outside of class.

This 9 minute video will explain the role of banks in our economy. It will aid in the mastery of standard EPF. 6 and 12

Students will learn how their values influence financial decisions. Students will understand the difference between a want and need, and they must take care of their needs first when it comes to making financial decisions. They will also learn how opportunity costs and trade-offs can help them with their financial decision making.

 This lesson goes over the basics of financial literacy. It is meant to be a beginning unit for personal finance. There is a presentation and a goal sheet included in this lesson. 

This lesson includes Slide to introduce the concepts of financial statements in accounting. They include definitions and an example to show how the three statements are connected and the order they should be prepared. Two additional activities are included to use as review of concepts -- which accounts go in each statement. It should be paired with a textbook problem in which students practice creating financial statement. I have included a quiz, so if a teacher does not have a text book, they could use that as the practice problem.

Students will create a beginning resume that represents their current work experience and demonstrates their knowledge of rhetorical situations for professional writing.

Analyze the impact and contributions of various segments of the hospitality and event planning industries on economies, cultures, and the environment.

This lesson plan goes over the basics of intellectual property rights and laws that protect intellectual property. There are some links to real world examples in the presentation as well. This lesson plan includes a presentation, worksheet, and a key. 

This lesson plan and activity are designed to help students understand the writing and completing process of a report by creating a proposal. An Internal, Unsolicited report gives them more free-range with formatting.

This course introduces students to the basic business concepts that will help them understand how a business survives in today’s economy and the role that consumers play in the same economy. Students will learn how to balance a checkbook, save for the future, and use credit wisely. Students will also learn how to create a resume and how to participate in a job interview.

It's Your Paycheck! is designed for use in high school personal finance classes. The curriculum contains three sections: "Know Your Dough," "KaChing!" and "All About Credit." The lessons in each of these sections employ various teaching strategies to engage students so that they have opportunities to apply the concepts being taught. Each lesson includes black-line masters of the handouts and visuals needed to teach the lesson.

Students will start their Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) year with activities that apply important career readiness skills, including teamwork, communication, leadership, creativity, and utilization of technology.  They will also begin to understand the connection between what they are learning in the classroom and their future career path through one (or more) CTSOs.

Students will create a poster project in groups of 3-4 about an assigned historical leader. Students should show knowledge of who this person was (when/where they lived) and several of their leadership accomplishments. Students will present their knowledge to the rest of the class so that they too may learn about a different leader than the one they were assigned.

Assignments to accompany a course using Saylor Principles of Management textbook (https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_principles-of-management-v1.1).

Course Description
Introduces business management theory, including the basic functions of planning, organizing, directing, leading, and controlling as well as factors contributing to change in current management approaches. Recommended: BA 101, WR 121, and BA 131 or CAS 133. Prerequisites: WR 115, RD 115, and MTH 20 or equivalent placement test scores. Audit available.

Intended Outcomes
Upon successful completion of Management Fundamentals, the student will be able to:

Understand the overall role and importance of the management function.
Understanding the management process.
Communicate effectively using standard business terminology.

Introduction to the management process and the four basic management functions. Students will also be able to differentiate between managing and leading in an organization.

For many students, today’s environment is more stressful than ever before. This lesson focuses on helping identify and manage the symptoms of stress while providing tools for stress management, time and energy management, and organization. 

Students will compare the price of goods from one time period to another and through discussion and role play interpret the effects of inflation on consumers. They will categorize goods and services according to the eight major groups of the consumer price index and be able to determine the difference between the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and the core CPI.