Running a Business
Materials Required: Computer with a spreadsheet program support such as Microsoft Works or ClarisWorks
Activity Time: 45 minutes Suggested Three lessons
Concept Taught: Spreadsheet
Start the first lesson by explaining to students Spreadsheets. Explain how the spreadsheet
workplace and how to create spreasheet. Explains how to write formulas and how to enter information in the spreadsheet.
Then assigned the students to imagine that they are a shop owner. They need to determine the twenty items that they sell. Students should note the amount of each item they sold for a period of two weeks. The students then create a spreadsheet with the information.
Once information is entered. Explain how the price of store their goods. Students then need to add the price and profits in their spreadsheets.
Well, the Company is the legal form running a business. So a business can be run by an individual or a sole proprietor, a partnership, joint venture (partnership among various legal entities), companies or corporations. ...