Business & economics. Level 1 to 18.
Money, markets and enterprise: managing your own money, running a business, and how economies work. All of it is planned and not yet written.
7 strands (1 beyond school) · 40 topics · about 174 modules planned · 0 specified · 0 with a sample lesson. From Primary 1 to Master's topics.
Personal money
Saving, budgeting, mobile money and interest: looking after your own money safely.
Previews Banking and Finance, Economics
What money is
BE-PER-MON · Primary 1 to Primary 3 · about 3 modules planned
Coins and notes, counting change, and why we use money instead of swapping.
- About 3 planned
Needs and wants
BE-PER-NEE · Primary 1 to Primary 4 · about 3 modules planned
Telling what we need from what we would like, and choosing between them.
- About 3 planned
Saving
BE-PER-SAV · Primary 2 to JSS 1 · about 4 modules planned
Saving a little at a time, in a tin, a savings group or an account.
- About 4 planned
Budgeting
BE-PER-BUD · Primary 5 to SSS 1 · about 4 modules planned
Planning money in and money out for a week, a term or a household.
- About 4 planned
Mobile money, safely
BE-PER-MOB · Primary 6 to SSS 1 · about 4 modules planned
Sending and receiving money by phone, keeping your PIN secret and spotting scams.
- About 4 planned
Interest
BE-PER-INT · JSS 2 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 4 modules planned
Simple and compound interest, and how it makes savings grow and debts cost more.
- About 4 planned
Borrowing and debt
BE-PER-BOR · JSS 3 (BECE) to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 3 modules planned
Loans, repayments and the true cost of borrowing.
- About 3 planned
Entrepreneurship and small business
Spotting a need and building a small business to meet it.
Previews Business Administration, Entrepreneurship
Spotting a need
BE-ENT-IDE · Primary 4 to JSS 3 (BECE) · about 3 modules planned
Finding problems around the village that people would pay to have solved.
- About 3 planned
Costs, prices and profit
BE-ENT-PRI · Primary 5 to JSS 3 (BECE) · about 4 modules planned
Working out what a market stall's goods cost and what to sell them for.
- About 4 planned
Running a small stall
BE-ENT-STA · Primary 5 to SSS 1 · about 4 modules planned
Buying stock, keeping it safe, serving customers and counting takings.
- About 4 planned
The business plan
BE-ENT-PLA · JSS 2 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 5 modules planned
Writing down the idea, customers, costs and goals before you begin.
- About 5 planned
Forms of business ownership
BE-ENT-OWN · JSS 3 (BECE) to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 4 modules planned
Sole traders, partnerships, companies and co-operatives compared.
- About 4 planned
Marketing and sales
Understanding customers and persuading them, honestly.
Previews Marketing, Business Administration
Knowing your customers
BE-MKT-CUS · Primary 5 to JSS 3 (BECE) · about 3 modules planned
Who buys, what they want, and asking them what they think.
- About 3 planned
Selling and customer service
BE-MKT-SEL · Primary 5 to SSS 1 · about 4 modules planned
Greeting, listening, fair dealing and keeping customers coming back.
- About 4 planned
Advertising and promotion
BE-MKT-ADV · JSS 1 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 4 modules planned
Signs, radio, word of mouth and offers, and how to tell honest adverts.
- About 4 planned
The marketing mix
BE-MKT-MIX · JSS 3 (BECE) to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 4 modules planned
Product, price, place and promotion, and how they fit together.
- About 4 planned
Digital marketing
BE-MKT-DIG · SSS 1 to A level / JUPEB / foundation year · about 4 modules planned
Reaching customers through phones, messaging apps and social media.
- About 4 planned
Economics
Micro, macro and development economics: how people, markets and countries use scarce resources.
Previews Economics, Development Economics
Scarcity and choice
BE-ECN-SCA · Primary 5 to JSS 3 (BECE) · about 4 modules planned
We can't have everything: opportunity cost in a family, a farm and a country.
- About 4 planned
Demand and supply
BE-ECN-DEM · JSS 3 (BECE) to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 6 modules planned
Why the price of tomatoes rises when they are scarce and falls at harvest time.
- About 6 planned
Market structures
BE-ECN-MAR · SSS 1 to A level / JUPEB / foundation year · about 5 modules planned
Many sellers, few sellers or one: how competition shapes prices.
- About 5 planned
Money, banking and inflation
BE-ECN-INF · SSS 1 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 5 modules planned
What banks and central banks do, and why prices rise over time.
- About 5 planned
National income and growth
BE-ECN-NAT · SSS 2 to A level / JUPEB / foundation year · about 5 modules planned
Measuring what a whole economy produces, and how it grows.
- About 5 planned
Government, taxes and trade
BE-ECN-GOV · SSS 2 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 5 modules planned
Public spending, taxation, and why countries trade with each other.
- About 5 planned
Development economics
BE-ECN-DEV · SSS 2 to A level / JUPEB / foundation year · about 5 modules planned
Why some economies grow faster than others, and what helps people out of poverty.
- About 5 planned
Accounting and finance
Keeping accurate records and understanding the institutions that handle money.
Previews Accounting, Banking and Finance
Keeping records
BE-ACC-REC · Primary 4 to JSS 2 · about 4 modules planned
Writing down every sale and purchase in a simple cash book.
- About 4 planned
Double-entry bookkeeping
BE-ACC-DBL · JSS 3 (BECE) to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 6 modules planned
Debits, credits and the ledger: the foundation of all accounts.
- About 6 planned
Trial balance and final accounts
BE-ACC-FIN · SSS 1 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 6 modules planned
Checking the books, then preparing the income statement and balance sheet.
- About 6 planned
Cash flow
BE-ACC-CSH · JSS 3 (BECE) to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 4 modules planned
Tracking cash in and out so a business can pay its bills on time.
- About 4 planned
Banks and financial institutions
BE-ACC-BNK · JSS 2 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 4 modules planned
Banks, microfinance, savings groups and mobile money providers, and what each does.
- About 4 planned
Insurance
BE-ACC-INS · JSS 3 (BECE) to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 3 modules planned
Sharing risk: how insurance works for health, crops, goods and vehicles.
- About 3 planned
Management
Organising people, work and resources so a team or business runs well.
Previews Business Administration, Human Resource Management
Working in a team
BE-MGT-TEA · Primary 3 to JSS 1 · about 3 modules planned
Sharing jobs, agreeing roles and finishing a group task together.
- About 3 planned
Leadership
BE-MGT-LEA · JSS 1 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 4 modules planned
Setting goals, making decisions and motivating others.
- About 4 planned
Organising a business
BE-MGT-ORG · JSS 2 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 4 modules planned
Departments, roles and who reports to whom.
- About 4 planned
People and recruitment
BE-MGT-PEO · JSS 3 (BECE) to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 4 modules planned
Hiring, training, paying and treating workers fairly.
- About 4 planned
Operations and production
BE-MGT-OPS · JSS 3 (BECE) to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 4 modules planned
Making goods or services efficiently while keeping quality high.
- About 4 planned
Business ethics
BE-MGT-ETH · JSS 2 to SSS 3 (WASSCE) · about 3 modules planned
Honesty, fair pay and responsibility to customers, workers and the community.
- About 3 planned
Beyond school (Beyond school, university level)
University-level business and finance: a head start, or a way to keep learning.
Previews Accounting, Economics, Banking and Finance, Business Administration
Corporate finance
BE-BYD-COR · 100 Level to 400–500 Level · about 7 modules planned
How firms raise money, value projects and manage risk.
- About 7 planned
Investment
BE-BYD-INV · 100 Level to 400–500 Level · about 7 modules planned
How shares, bonds and funds work, and the theory of risk and return.
- About 7 planned
Business strategy
BE-BYD-STR · 100 Level to Master's topics · about 6 modules planned
How organisations analyse competitors and choose where to compete.
- About 6 planned
Supply chains
BE-BYD-SUP · A level / JUPEB / foundation year to 400–500 Level · about 6 modules planned
Sourcing, logistics and distribution, from farm gate to shop shelf.
- About 6 planned
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Every module here is written to be learned at a Lantern, offline, at a child’s own pace. Four Lanterns are planned and waiting for light.