Standards - Career & Technical Education

Incorporate safety procedures in handling, operating, and maintaining tools and machinery; handling materials; utilizing personal protective equipment; maintaining a safe work area; and handling hazardous materials and forces.

Demonstrate effective workplace and employability skills, including communication, awareness of diversity, positive work ethic, problem-solving, time management, and teamwork.

Explore the range of careers available in the field and investigate their educational requirements, and demonstrate job-seeking skills including resume-writing and interviewing.

Advocate and practice safe, legal, responsible, and ethical use of information and technology tools specific to the industry pathway.

Participate in a Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) to increase knowledge and skills and to enhance leadership and teamwork.

Discuss and demonstrate ways to value diversity.

Analyze and interpret financial data pertaining to cost-benefit analysis of a business decision.

Create charts, graphs, and tables using financial data.

Analyze budgets and financial data to determine future financial needs.

Determine and analyze cash flow and profit margin, and perform cost-benefit analysis.

Explain financial management as it relates to income, savings, and investment opportunities.

Describe how a financial business benefits from the organizing management function.

Explain how managers use financial information.

Evaluate risk management options available to consumers and entrepreneurs for protection against financial loss.

Analyze the risks, interest rate returns, and liquidity of various types of savings and investments.

Research and develop diversification strategies to reduce long-term risk and improve return on investment.

Organize and effectively communicate financial information in terms clients can readily understand.

Apply organizational skills to manage financial operations.

Explain how agencies that regulate national and international financial markets protect investors.

Develop and maintain a plan for a financial business.

Explain how effective debt and credit management practices affect insurance costs, job opportunities, and interest rates.

Analyze traditional and non-traditional sources of credit for suitability to particular situations, listing advantages and disadvantages of each type.

Analyze the impact of international, federal, state, and local regulations on financial management decisions.

Describe effects of tax structure on business decisions.

Compare and contrast legal rights and responsibilities related to financial management for various types of businesses.

Explain the role of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission in regulating financial markets.

Determine tax liability as it pertains to the finances of a business.

Identify and explain the legal and ethical responsibilities of financial managers.

Discuss the impact of short-term gratification on ethical decision-making.

Determine the impact of international activities on personal financial decision-making.

Utilize exchange rates to convert from one currency to another.

Gather and share information on the impact of domestic and international labor issues on personal financial decisions.

Gather and share information about the significance of credentialing in financial and investment fields, the value of belonging to a professional organization, and the importance of continuing education.