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From this browse and search tool, you will find the New York State (NYS) Learning Standards statements for all seven standard areas across grades Pre K - 12. The NYS Learning Standards provides the foundation for the NYS Assessments and the local core curriculum.

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Standard Area - CDOS: NYS Career Development and Occupational Studies

Academic Level - CDOS.C: Commencement

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Standard - CDOS.C.3b: Career Majors
Students who choose a career major will acquire the career-specific technical knowledge/skills necessary to progress toward gainful employment, career advancement, and success in postsecondary programs.

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Key Idea Code - CDOS.C.3b.BI: Business/Information Systems

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Key Idea - CDOS.C.3b.BI.1: Business/Information Systems
Basic Business Understanding

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Performance Indicator - CDOS.C.3b.BI.1.A:
Students demonstrate an understanding of business, marketing, and multinational economic concepts, perform business-related mathematical computations, and analyze/interpret business-related numerical information.

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Students will - CDOS.C.3b.BI.1.A.SW:
  1. Understand business concepts/characteristics:
    1. Nature of business
      1. Trends (e.g., e-commerce)
      2. Influential factors
        1. Social
        2. Political
        3. Economic
        4. Technological
        5. Global
      3. Forms of business organization
        1. Proprietorship
        2. Partnership
        3. Corporation
        4. Specialized
          1. Profit and nonprofit
          2. Joint venture
          3. Franchise
          4. Cooperative
        5. Characteristics of each organization
          1. Formation steps
          2. Advantages and disadvantages
    2. Identify social issues:
      1. Population/workforce
      2. Environmental
      3. Social responsibility
    3. Understand legal issues:
      1. Economic regulations
      2. Business protections (e.g., restrictive covenant, copyright, trademark)
      3. Protection of public interest (e.g., OSHA, ADA, EEOC)
      4. Regulations (e.g., international, national, state, local)
      5. Business and personal taxation
      6. Labor
    4. Ethical issues and dilemmas
      1. Confidentiality (e.g., trade secrets, privacy)
      2. Environmental impact (e.g., pollution, deforestation)
      3. Global, national, state, and local
      4. Social responsibilities
  2. Understand basic economic concepts:
    1. Making economic decisions
      1. The economic way of thinking
      2. Individual decisions
      3. Group decisions
      4. Private sector decisions
      5. Public sector decisions
    2. The microeconomic perspective
      1. Demand: achieving consumer satisfaction
      2. Supply: producing goods and services
      3. Demand, supply, and prices
      4. Business firms in the economy
      5. Perfect competition and monopoly
      6. Monopolistic competition
      7. Improving the market economy
      8. The labor market and determining personal income
    3. The macroeconomic perspective
      1. Measuring aggregate economic activity
      2. Distribution of income
      3. Unemployment
      4. Inflation
      5. Money, the Federal Reserve System, and banking
      6. Monetary policy
      7. Taxes
      8. Fiscal policy
      9. Economic growth
    4. Personal finance and investment
    5. World economy
  3. Understand multinational/global business:
    1. Role of multinational business
      1. Import
      2. Export
    2. Multicultural communications
      1. Cultural diversity (e.g., different languages, nonverbal communication)
      2. Communications strategies
        1. Nonverbal
        2. Oral and written
        3. Technical
      3. Environment
        1. Social
        2. Political
        3. Legal
      4. Multinational/global business management
        1. Organizational structures
        2. Human resources
        3. Entrepreneurial opportunities
        4. Conversion
          5. a. Monetary b. Measurement
      5. Multinational marketing
        1. Language
        2. Customs/traditions/etiquette
        3. Legal aspects
        4. Politics
        5. Technology
          6. a. Time factor b. Monetary factors
  4. Understand marketing concepts:
    1. Basics (e.g., functions, mix, concept, utility)
    2. Product management (planning, development, product, life-cycle)
    3. External factors
      1. Government regulations
      2. Economic environment
      3. Cultural differences
      4. Technology
      5. Special interest groups
      6. Competition
    4. Financial management
      1. Pricing objectives
      2. Calculating price
      3. Purchasing process
      4. Forecasting
    5. Distribution systems
      1. Channels of distribution
      2. Intermediaries
      3. Inventory control
    6. Promotion/advertising/public relations
      1. Media
      2. Budgets
      3. Technology
      4. Forms of sales promotion
      5. Promotion programs
      6. Public relations plans
      7. Personal selling
      8. Sales approaches
      9. Functions of sales personnel
    7. Market research
      1. a. Purposes
      2. b. Data collection, sampling, and analysis
    8. Market types/characteristics
      1. Buying motives
      2. Market segmentation
      3. Market positioning for competitive edge
      4. Target market
    9. Marketing plan
      1. Development
      2. Strategic and tactical planning
    10. Trends and innovations in marketing
      1. Societal changes
      2. Technological innovations
    11. Ethics
      1. Code of behavior
      2. Truth in advertising, selling, and packaging
  5. Understand the nature of entrepreneurship:
    1. Characteristics of the entrepreneur
    2. Advantages and disadvantages
    3. Business plan
    4. Financing (e.g., raising capital)
    5. Opportunities
    6. Legal issues (see IC)
    7. Organizational structures (see IA3)
    8. Marketing (see IV)
    9. Economics (see III)
    10. Finance/accounting
    11. Global markets
  6. Understand business-related mathematical applications:
    1. Computation
    2. Accounting
    3. Income taxes
    4. Financial records
    5. Ratios and percentages
    6. Depreciation
    7. Interpretation
    8. Tables
    9. Charts and graphs
    10. Financial reports
    11. Analyzing
    12. Amortization
    13. Real versus nominal
    14. Statistics
    15. Economic indicators
    16. Forecasting
    17. Stock markets
    18. Sales
    19. Inventory
    20. Earnings

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