Empower your students with the practical skills they’ll need for their careers by exploring how businesses manage their money, people, and products.

Business
Lessons

Empower your students with the practical skills they’ll need for their careers by exploring how businesses manage their money, people, and products.

Types of Lessons

Lessons

Each lesson takes about 5-10 minutes and ends with a short self-grading quiz.

Tutorial Videos

Students receive credit upon completion—no quiz required.

Interactive Activities

Students use financial calculators to solve real-world problems presented in a quiz.


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Accounting

Learn to read the language of business, from analyzing financial statements to uncovering a company’s financial health.

How Accountants Close Their Books

Learn the cycle that turns daily business into key financial reports.

20 min

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Why Accounting Rules Matter

Discover how regulations and ethics build trust in our economy.

18 min

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How To Launch Your Career in Accounting

Learn the education requirements for top accounting careers.

15 min

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How To Check a Business’s Financial Health

Learn the key ratios for profitability, liquidity, and solvency.

21 min

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Do You Know How to Read Business Language?

See how GAAP makes financial statements reliable and comparable.

12 min

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How Companies Value Their Assets

From FIFO to bad debt, learn the GAAP rules for tracking assets.

24 min

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How to Account for Liabilities?

Understand how businesses account for short and long-term debt.

24 min

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What Is Shareholder Equity?

See how profits, dividends, and stock sales affect equity.

10 min

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When to Record Revenue & Expenses

Learn when to record expenses to match the revenue they create.

15 min

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The Story of Gains and Losses

Learn how GAAP separates core profits from incidental gains.

24 min

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Why Is My Paycheck So Small?

Discover the payroll taxes that are withheld from your earnings.

15 min

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How Companies Raise Capital

Learn how companies go public and reward their shareholders.

10 min

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Get Insights on a Company’s Efficiency

Use operating ratios to see how well a firm uses its assets.

12 min

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How to Analyze a Company’s Cash Flow

Discover how cash flow reveals a company’s ability to survive.

25 min

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Planning Your Company’s Cash Budget

Learn to plan for cash shortfalls and surpluses in your business.

25 min

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How Companies Finance Their Growth

Learn the difference between issuing corporate bonds and stocks.

22 min

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The Perks of Being a Shareholder

From dividends to voting on mergers, learn what ownership means.

12 min

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Can a Company Pay Its Debts?

Explore the key ratios for measuring a company’s solvency.

18 min

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Making Business Decisions with Accounting

Dive into financial reports to see how businesses make decisions.

12 min

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Telling a Company’s Financial Story

Find out if they can keep growing, or if they can weather any storm.

24 min

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How to Find Your Break-Even Point

Use cost-volume-profit analysis to guide any business decision.

18 min

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How to Determine an Asset’s Value

Learn to use P/E ratios and CAPM to analyze the value of a stock.

22 min

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How Auditors Uncover Deception & Fraud

What red flags forensic accountants find that expose financial crimes.

24 min

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Management

Discover how business leaders build winning teams, manage risk, and guide their business toward its goals.

How to Plan for Business Success

Learn how strategic planning guides a business to achieving its goals.

12 min

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Who’s Calling the Shots?

One supreme ruler, or are teams empowered to navigate on their own?

24 min

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What’s Your Leadership Style?

Explore the management skills that inspire and guide winning teams.

13 min

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How To Motivate Your Team To Be Their Best

Learn what practical strategies will unlock their untapped potential.

24 min

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How to Structure Your Business

Discover the 7 most common ways to organize a new business.

20 min

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Making Ethical Business Decisions

Learn how to navigate ethical dilemmas in the marketplace.

20 min

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How a Business Can Be Socially Responsible

Discover how companies can “do the right thing” for everyone.

9 min

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How Companies Manage Their Human Resources

Learn how HR plans for who and when to hire & train their workforce.

12 min

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How Businesses Stay Ahead

Learn how a company needs a competitive advantage to beat its rivals.

14 min

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Planning for The Cash You Need Now & Later

Learn how businesses manage their money for the short and long-term.

16 min

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5 Ways to Assess Business Risk

Learn how businesses prevent and manage risks from within.

25 min

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Top 6 Ways to Manage Business Risks

Learn the 3 stages of managing risk and the 3 ways to regain control.

17 min

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How To Tell Your Business’s Success Story

Learn how to analyze any company to write their blueprint for success.

24 min

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Marketing

Find out how to build a powerful marketing plan that connects with any audience.

Do You Know the 4 Ps of Marketing?

Find out what every marketing guru does to reach their audience.

24 min

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Do You Know Why You Buy What You Do?

Find out how marketers are influencing you, every time you click, Buy.

10 min

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How Businesses Find Their Ideal Customers

Learn to find & attract people who want to buy what your selling.

10 min

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What Happens When Marketers Lie?

Discover how misleading ads and data privacy issues lead to new laws.

16 min

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What Is the Product Life Cycle?

Learn what decisions to make for each stage in the product’s journey.

24 min

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How to Price Your Products & Services

Learn what pricing strategies businesses use to win more customers.

24 min

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Make The Most of Your Marketing Dollars

Learn how to plan and measure an effective advertising campaign.

12 min

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8 Techniques to Increase Your Sales

Find out the proven process to close more deals in any industry.

13 min

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Build Your First Marketing Plan

Don’t just hope for success, research and create a solid game plan.

15 min

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