This course seeks to empower students with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to achieve entrepreneurial success in a variety of settings. It focuses on the individual’s intelligence to identify opportunity, assess risk, and apply the necessary skills to transform innovative ideas into viable, sustainable business ventures. This course will have a theoretical, as well as, a practical component, which when combined should transform ideas into meaningful and long lasting ventures, that will create value and wealth for both the individual and the society in which he or she operates.

This course is an introduction to the concepts and techniques of statistics. It is designed to cover the concepts, arithmetic and algebraic techniques necessary for an understanding of basic statistical methods from the perspectives of both descriptive and inferential statistics. Special emphasis is given to the concepts and techniques relevant to organizing and summarizing data, probability distributions, sampling distributions, estimation, and hypothesis testing. Through this course students will be able to understand the role of statistics as a widely used tool in the world of business; develop an appreciation of the techniques and concepts used in business research and everyday business transactions; and develop the ability to analyze and use statistical information as an aid to problem solving and decision making

This course provides students with the understanding of how the global tourism system operates and provides them with the basic tools and techniques to function effectively within the system. Students will explore areas of interest including generation of markets, transit routes, destinations and features of the industry. Students will also study and research on the different continents of the world, concentrating on key tourism destinations and their attractions.

This course is the first of a two-semester syllabus that enables students to understand and appreciate the principles and practices of costing and costing systems, as well as develop the capacity for systematic and critical thinking as the basis for managerial planning and decision making.  Any student with a good grasp of the Principles of Accounts syllabus or its equivalent is able to pursue the course.  The nature and scope of the course prepares students for the CAPE Advanced-Level Accounting examination, and International Accounting Standards (IAS) are used as the basis for application of principles and the presentation of accounting information.