Junior Cycle
Junior Cycle Business Studies
The course explores:
* The different aspects of managing a household including budgeting, banking
and consumer rights.
* The management of a business under headings of finance, insurance and marketing.
* The impact of the government and foreign trade on business and the household
is analysed.
* The recording and interpretation of financial data.
ECONOMICS
Economics studies the allocation of scarce resources within an economy to satisfy consumers’ needs and wants.
* Microeconomics dealing with individual consumers and producers, analysing the interaction of supply and demand in the market place.
* Macroeconomics examines the major economic variables: national income, foreign trade, exchange rates and inflation
BUSINESS
This subject provides an understanding of the environment in which business
operates by:
* Analysing the relationship between the stakeholders in business and the
resolution of conflict.
* Providing an insight into enterprise and management
* Examining the development of a new good or service from concept development
to commercialisation
* Explaining the changing role of management
* Exploring the organisation of business both domestically and intentionally
ACCOUNTING
* The recording, presentation and interpretation of financial information.
* The preparation of Business Final Accounts, Cash Flow Statements, Published
Accounts and Accounts from Incomplete Records.
* The role of Management Accounting is examined.
* The preparation of accounts for non-profit making organisations.
* The analysis of financial records.