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Business Studies - Some great links

Looking for good resources on financial literacy for Commerce and Business Studies? Go to http://www.understandingmoney.gov.au/content/education/material/for annotated links to some great resources.

http://www.abs.gov.au and
www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/cashome.nsf/Home/Entry%20Page.es
Links to the Australian Bureau of Statistics website - teacher and student resources

www.telstra.com.au/marketingacademy
Telstra Marketing Academy has been designed to help secondary school students learn more about marketing and provide a reality based learning task to support the existing curriculum. The program requires students to develop a marketing campaign to target a specific customer segment with the goal of driving sales of a real Telstra service, the Next G mobile broadband network.

http://www.workplaceinfo.com.au/GuestMenu.asp
News and info on Australian Employment Relations

http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/1391.0.55.001?OpenDocument
The Australian Bureau of Statistics provides statistics for business or franchise planning.

www.startsmart.com.au

The Commonwealth Bank Foundation is bringing together young people and their teachers in 2007 to learn how to start a smarter financial future. Workshops and forums are being held for young people aged 16 - 20 in capital cities and regional areas, there are workshops to help teachers improve their skills and StartSmart will even visit your school.

http://www.bized.co.uk/

A UK web site specifically directed at students and educators of Business and other subjects.

http://knowledge.insead.edu/newuser.cfm

INSEAD (A leading European business school) Publications
A good way to maintain your enthusiasm for teaching is to keep up to date with developments in the real world. Australian sources such as BRW, AFR and the business pages of the Sydney Morning Herald (http://www.smh.com.au) and the Australian (http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/) are essential to keep an eye on.

http://www.quickmba.com/
QuickMBA is an online knowledge resource for business administration. Topics are presented as frameworks and summaries in the various subjects of business administration, as taught in the world's top MBA programs.

http://www.austrade.gov.au
This Commonwealth government site has a lot of information about and for Australian businesses operating in the Global Market. However, the most relevant section for students is Industry and Country Info. This section allows students to search out information on a country of their choice. Country Profile then enables students to go to the specific information that they need. The language is user friendly. Students can use the information gathered from these pages will help students pad out their case studies and be referred to in their written responses.

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu
Wharton School of Business - one of the leading US business schools

Colleen's financial ratio memory songs
Colleen has put the financial ratios to well known tunes - what a great tool for our students!

HSC online
Lots of resources for Business Studies teachers and students

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

Links for business obligations and rights, mergers, copyright and much more.

https://www.det.nsw.edu.au
NSW Department of Education and Training

www.anpf.cit.act.edu.au
This is the website of the Australian Network of Practice Firms which is about to change its name to Virtual Enterprises Australia. Virtual enterprises (or practice firms) are student-run businesses in which participants gain employability and enterprise skills as well as confidence in their own abilities through this practical and hands-on approach. Each enterprise is mentored by a local business which provides the simulated goods or services for trading with other virtual enterprises across Australia and internationally.

www.dest.gov.au
Department of Education, Science and Technology