Description
The 4-module course enables students to:
1. Appreciate an introduction to organisations, marketing, human resource management as well as accounting and finance.
2. Explore business issues from different cultural perspectives.
3. Examine and apply the principles of organisation and the techniques widely practised in the ongoing process of decision making in organisations.
4. Understand financial matters including constructing the profit/loss accounts, Balance Sheets and financial analysis.
5. Develop an understanding of different theories and the ability to apply theory to real life situations.
6. Apply business techniques and study a problem or problems encountered by an organisation culminating in a research paper.

Assessment
This course is both a credit course and assessed externally by the IBO at the end of the second year of study (as part of the IB Diploma programme or as a separate IB certificate). Assessment is by two examinations, counting 40% each paper and a research coursework counting 20%.