Welcome to Mrs. White's notes page! Courses for semester one, 2008-09 are as follows: Keyboarding 1, Blocks B, D and F,  Accounting 1, A, and Accounting 2, F.  Business Law will be offered in the second semester. 

Keyboarding 1 notes:

Students will be learning the touch-type method of keyboarding.  The entire keyboard should be mastered in approximately 4 weeks.  The remainder of the quarter will be spent on speed-building and accuracy through computer program "Cortez-Peters".  We will also begin document production and proofreading exercises.  It is very important that students and parents or guardian sign and submit the Computer/Network/Internet Letter of Agreement in order to have access to computers throughout the course.

Accounting 1:

Students will learn the fundamentals of accounting from starting a business, preparing financial statements, journalizing transactions, completing a worksheet and completing a monthly business cycle in the first quarter.  We cover about a chapter a week.  Students will be assigned selected problems for both homework and classwork to be completed in their workbooks and a chapter study guide will be assigned immediately preceding any chapter test.  Please be sure to check the link for the course listed on this page.  A great deal of student study resources are available at the book's companion site.

As we will be utilizing the computers to supplement our activities, it is very important that students and parents or guardian sign and submit the Computer/Network/Internet Letter of Agreement in order to have access to computers throughout the course.

Accounting 2:

Students will be learning departmentalized accounting through a variety of transactions.  Students will prepare financial statements for a departmentalized business,and begin to learn accounting control systems.  Chapters take about a week to a week and a half to cover.  Students will be assigned selected problems for both homework and classwork to be completed in their workbooks and a chapter study guide will be assigned immediately preceding any chapter test.  Please be sure to check the link for the course listed on this page.  A great deal of student study resources are available at the book's companion site. 

As we will be utilizing the computers to supplement our activities, it is very important that students and parents or guardian sign and submit the Computer/Network/Internet Letter of Agreement in order to have access to computers throughout the course.

Business Law:

Students will learn the basics of law, starting with understanding ethics and the law, sources of law, and structure of the Courts.  We will then proceed to classification of procedural and substantive law, and on to contract law.  Finally, students will learn about the law as it pertains to business organizations.  Please be sure to check the link for the course listed on this page.  Students will need a username and password from the teacher to access all resources.