Introduction

The Commerce Department is responsible for the teaching of:

Accounting

Economics

Enterprise Studies

Business Studies

Mission Statement:

To create in students an awareness of and practical interest in Business and Enterprise through hands on experience.  Students of Business and Enterprise will learn to aspire, to try things and to accept failure as a step on the way to success.

If you like money (both making it and spending it) then our subjects are for you!

Therefore the aims of the Commerce Department are:

• To equip students with personal financial literacy skills.
• To provide students of Economics with the ability to make more sense of the economic world in which they participate and understand how it affects them in their everyday life.
• Engender a continuing interest and desire for further studies in our subjects or a career in Business or Accounting.
• Develop the essential values and key competencies necessary to be an effective member of society.
• Achieve the best possible results in external examinations.

Why should students take our subjects?

 Students need to develop knowledge, skills, experiences and attitudes which will enable them, as individuals and as members of groups to:

• Become confident about their ability to work within the community, and the world of business.
• Be better managers of their financial affairs, resources and their own life.
• Be familiar with the business, consumer and employment environment in which they must play an important part.
• Appreciate and employ modern technologies and software packages.
• Develop their entrepreneurial skills.