Overview
This week we have our first guest speaker, and begin our investigation of bookkeeping.
Wednesday, October 22nd
Classwork
We'll get back our quizzes from last class, and discuss the grades earned using our work submission rubric. The grade distribution for the quiz was, A: 4, B: 1, C: 5, D: 6, E: 0.
Then you will work in your business groups to investigate bookkeeping. Work together to produce a single PDF document to email me at the end of class which has answers to the following questions:
- What is bookkeeping? Come up with a short (2 or 3 sentences max) definition in your own words.
- Why would we want to study bookkeeping in an entrepreneurship class like ours?
- Why is bookkeeping necessary for anyone starting a small business?
- What kinds of things are kept in the books of a bookkeeping system?
- Approximately how much would it cost to hire a bookkeeper for a year to keep the books of a small business?
Assuming your small business has decided that since you can't afford to hire
a bookkeeper, you will learn to do it in-house
, research 10 free
on-line resources that could help your business group (or at least someone in
your business group) to learn bookkeeping on their own.
Have one person in your group email me the PDF with your work at the end of class.