Economics and business / Year 10 / Economics and Business Skills / Economic reasoning, decision-making and application

Curriculum content descriptions

Generate a range of viable options in response to an economic or business issue or event, use cost-benefit analysis and appropriate criteria to recommend and justify a course of action and predict the potential consequences of the proposed action (ACHES058)

Elaborations
  • deciding on a potential major purchase (for example, a car, investigating options, calculating the costs of different purchasing methods and estimating the long-term costs and benefits of owning the asset and repaying the debt)
  • examining the trade-offs businesses may need to consider when determining methods to improve their productivity (for example, employing more staff compared with upskilling existing staff)
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Ethical understanding Ethical understanding
ScOT terms

Causality,  Financial analysis,  Risk management

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Work sample Year 10 Economics and Business: Business improvement processes

This work sample demonstrates evidence of student learning in relation to aspects of the achievement standards for Year 10 Economics and Business. The primary purpose for the work sample is to demonstrate the standard, so the focus is on what is evident in the sample not how it was created. The sample is an authentic representation ...