BEP2O - Launching and Leading a Business

Course Description

This course introduces students to the world of business and what is required to be successful, ethical, and responsible in today’s economy. Students will develop the knowledge and skills needed to be an entrepreneur who knows how to respond to local and global market opportunities. Throughout the course, students will explore and understand the responsibility of managing different functions of a business. This includes accounting, marketing, information and communication technology, financial management, human resources, and production.

This is the revised Business Studies course (BBI2O) as per the new Ontario Curriculum for 2024.

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The Content

The course runs for a total of 110 hours. The lessons outlined below are all structured for 100 minutes of instruction time, unless otherwise stated.

The 110 hours also includes additional time that may be allocated for assignments and tests at the teacher’s discretion.

NOTE

Unit 3 – Entrepreneurship: From Mindset to Venture, is designed as the Independent Study Project which is to be undertaken across the entire duration of the course. So it recommended that you start Lesson 1 at the beginning of the course and space out the subsequent lessons and activities evenly across your course.

The first and second lesson are free! Then individual lessons are priced at $5 or the whole course at $120

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Introduction Materials
- First Day Handout [see whole course resources below]
- Independent Study Unit [see whole course resources below]
Unit 1 – Business Leadership, Project Management and Connections. By the end of this unit, students will: demonstrate an understanding of various business leadership styles and of the project management process used to perform business-related tasks, consider how business knowledge and skills can be applied to other subject areas and careers, enhance their knowledge of the contributions of successful entrepreneurs and describe how their business ventures address social, economic, environmental, and ethical issues, analyze challenges that entrepreneurs face, and consider ways to address these challenges, create and maintain a portfolio that illustrates their business competencies and personal growth as an entrepreneur.
Unit 2 – Economic Foundations. By the end of this unit, students will: demonstrate an understanding of how businesses respond to market forces, including supply and demand, and the needs and wants of consumers, learn about the competitive market environment in Canada and the ways in which economic systems, trade relationships, and governments influence it, build their knowledge of the various types of businesses that make up Canada’s economy, and analyze the influence that business creation and innovation has on the global economy.
Unit 3 – Entrepreneurship: From Mindset to Venture. By the end of this unit, students will: learn about the mindset that is required to help ensure success as an entrepreneur, develop and plan an entrepreneurial venture by using various business processes, and evaluate the feasibility of their venture throughout the planning process, identify and compare various supports, including funding opportunities, that are available for entrepreneurs in their community to help them launch a venture, launch their business venture and lead it towards achieving their goals.
Unit 4 – Business Functions. By the end of this unit, students will: demonstrate an understanding of the processes involved in producing a product or delivering a service, and develop a plan for producing their product or delivering their service, identifying ways to improve the process overall, learn about marketing strategies for promoting a product or delivering a service, including the “three Cs” (company, customer, and competition) and the “four Ps” (product, price, place, and promotion), develop an understanding of the role and importance of accounting to the entrepreneurial process and to the development of a small business, build their knowledge of the role management has in supporting employees, including managing ethical, moral, and legal responsibilities and considerations.

Assignments

Available within the relevant lessons:

Assignment 1.1 Movie Leadership Analysis
Assignment 1.2 Inventor Trading Cards
Assignment 1.3 The Greatest Entrepreneur
Assignment 1.4 Entrepreneur Test
Assignment 2.1 The PPC
Assignment 2.2 Demand and Supply
Assignment 2.3 Monopoly Game
Assignment 3.1 Entrepreneur Project
Assignment 4.1 Increasing Productivity in the Workplace
Assignment 4.2 Business Letter
Assignment 4.3 CSR Audit

These resources are available to those with access to the whole course:

Course of Study
First Day Handout
Units 1-4 SOW
ISU
Final Exam
External Resources List

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