Switching on to Business
for Transition Year Studies
Switching on to Business is an innovative, full colour textbook that takes an exciting case study and entrepreneurial approach to introducing Business, Accounting and Economics topics to students doing Transition Year.
Introduces key business concepts and provides a taste of Leaving Certificate Business, Economics and Accounting in an entertaining, accessible and memorable format.
A strong enterprise focus is reflected in the chapter sequence, which follows the stages of a business start-up and the basic questions faced by entrepreneurs.
The book is designed to be flexible and adaptable to every Transition Year programme and provides an abundance of case studies to stimulate interest, discussion and practical problem solving skills among students of all levels of ability. Individual and group assignments and activities are provided to reinforce student learning. It also contains a complete Transition Year Project based around a business they would like to set up and run. The book supports mini-enterprise programmes run during Transition Year through the provision of practical mini-enterprise checklists for students.
Website support provides free Switching on to Business EXTRA handouts provide extra teaching resources and also keep the text fully up-to-date.
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The global economic recession may turn into a prolonged depression. To learn more about business cycles, look up Page 174 of Switching on to Business.
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