The Task Enterprise 1

For Profit

Purpose Of Enterprise Module

To enable you to set-up, organise and run your own enterprises.

Through direct involvement and practical experience you will gain understanding of how a business operates.

To learn co-operation and teamwork.

Four Units

•Unit 1: Planning For Enterprise

•Unit 2: Operational Unit

•Unit 3: Culminating Unit

•Unit 4: Review Of Experience

Key Assignments 1

I have listed the main steps involved inestablishing an enterprise and

identified my personal involvement in the decision

making process.

Key Assignments 2

I conducted a market research survey and undertook an analysis of my findings using a computer.

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Key Assignment 3

I kept a diary of my personal involvement.

Key Assignment 4

I produced a report of my experience under the following headings:

1. Working as part of a team

2. Decision-making

3. Solving problems

4. Selling our product / service outside of the school

or organisation

5. Personal learning from the enterprise experience

Unit 1: Planning

In This Unit You Will Learn

•What Enterprise is.

•What skills and qualities are needed to be an entrepreneur.

•The stages in setting up an enterprise.

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In This Unit You Will Learn

•How to organise, run & manage a business.

•About the different jobs within companies and your role.

•How to work as a team.

In This Unit You Will Learn

•To calculate financial accounts.

•To advertise your company.

•To make business decisions.

•To work with your community in a business situation. ?????

Unit 2: Operational UnitYou Will Cover

• Your Ability To Make Decisions

• Performing Your Role

• Quality Control

• Advertising & Sales

• Health & Safety

• Wages & Commissions

• Company Rules

• A Review Of The Enterprise

• Trade Fairs

In Unit 3 Culminating Unit

•How to wind up your business.

•How to do a Trading Profit & Loss Account & a Balance Sheet.

•To assess how your business went.

In Unit 4 Review You Will Cover

•Skills Developed

•Individual Performance

•Group Performance

•Successes

•Problems Solved

•Decision Making

•The Future

Structure / Originality•Your Task should be original - i.e. all your

own work.

•The design should be creative – i.e. colourful with plenty of relevant pictures, videos and graphs / bar charts

This is worth 10 marks.

Structure / Cross Curricular •Three other subjects from Leaving Cert

applied. For example:

This is worth 10 marks.

Structure / Presentation

•Your Task should be typed up.

•It should be: neat

clear

organised.

A well presented task is worth 10 marks.

Structure / Presentation

•Your Task should begin with a Table of Contents with page numbers.

1) Aims• It should begin with two clear aims that make

sense and are relevant to the task. • What you plan to do to achieve aim.

• You should have two goals / aims in your Business Plan.

This is worth 10 marks.

2) Research & Planning

Your first section should be titled

Research & Planning

It should contain:

• Evidence of background research

• Identification of your target group

2) Research & Planning

• A Skills assessment (your own & your group’s)

• A Resource assessment

2) Research & Planning

• Market research

• Alternatives considered

• Information gathering techniques

2) Research & Planning

• Your Action Plan

• Your Business Plan with projections

This is worth 20 marks.

3) Carrying Out The Task

Your second section should be titled

Carrying Out The Task

It should contain:

•A description of the activity

•A description of your role

3) Carrying Out The Task

•A description of your group’s roles

•Resources used

•Problems encountered

•Any adaptation of plans

3) Carrying Out The Task•Quality Control measures

•Health & Safety implementation

•Evidence of your involvement

This is worth 20 marks.

4) Presentation & Analysis Of Findings

Your third section should be titled:

Presentation & Analysis of Findings

It should contain:

•Any methods used to measure outcomes / success

– i.e. Any profits? Were your aims

achieved?.

4) Presentation & Analysis Of Findings

•Any analysis & evaluation of results leading to conclusions.

•Strengths

4) Presentation & Analysis Of Findings

•Weaknesses –

•Suggestions for improvement relating conclusions to original aims.

This is worth 10 marks.

5) Self Evaluation

Your fourth section should be titled:

Self Evaluation

It should contain:

• An evaluation of your own role

• Some knowledge about yourself

• Any skills / attitudes developed

5) Self Evaluation

• Any difficulties encountered

• Any lessons learned about yourself for

the future.

• This is worth 10 marks.