Economics and Commerce: Level 1
Course Overview:
Commerce is a brand new course. It is a combination of Economics, Accounting and Business Studies. It will provide an excellent foundation course for Economics, Accounting and Agribusiness in the senior school. Skills from all three disciplines will be used - the best from each!. For students who potentially will be business people in any profession, this subject has much to offer. There is the potential to learn about business in a number of settings around Dunedin.
Big Ideas
- Culture and values shape consumer perspectives and organisations’ pūtake
- Informed financial and non-financial decision-making and action can result in the sustainable use of scarce resources and positive outcomes for stakeholders
- Whānau, communities, and organisations are financially interdependent
- Society benefits through kaitiakitanga, enterprise, innovation, and tauhokohoko
Topics Covered - subject to change
- Think like an economist -how does the Putake of business determine its decisions
- How do we price? Marketing a new product
- Interdependence - the flow on of different events - world, New Zealand, Otago
- Different ways of doing business.
