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JA Financial Capability 1, part of the JA High School Experience courses, is a one-semester teacher-led course in which high school students examine financial capabilities from a business perspective, focusing on banking, economics, business planning, and risk management. Volunteers engage with students through a variety of activities that includes subject matter guest speaking and coaching or advising for case study and project course work.
Students will:
Learn the necessary concepts applicable to state and national educational standards.
Apply these standards-based concepts to the real world.
Synthesize elective concepts through cumulative, tangible deliverables (projects).
Analyze a business situation or principle through the use of a case study.
Demonstrate the skills necessary for future career pathway success.
Program Concepts
Assessment of business needs, Balance sheets, Banking careers, Break even, Business banking, Business choices, Business ethics, Business loan, Capitalism, Company information, Crowdfunding, Customer life cycle, Demand, Expenses, Financial plan, Financial planning, For profit and nonprofit businesses, Funding sources, Graphs, Hard skills, Income statement, Insurance agencies, Insurance careers, Investing, Job source websites, Job trends, Law of supply and demand, Nonprofit funding, Personal banking, Pro forma, Resources, Risk, Risk management, Salaries, Scarcity, Small business pricing, Soft skills, Supply, The profit equation, Types of insurance
Skills Students Learn
- Analyze facts
- Analyze information
- Analyze situations
- Analyze statistics
- Calculate financial information
- Compare and contrast information
- Complete research
- Draw conclusions
- Discuss information
- Evaluate information
- Intrepret data
- Manipulate data
- Participate in discussions
- Present information
- Perform calculations
- Research information
- Review data
- Role play a situation
- Think creatively
- Think critically
- Work in groups