9COM – Year 9 Commerce – 1 Semester

This course provides an introduction to Commerce. It covers the following:

How the share market works and ways of investing your money

Making and using a simple cash budget

Different ways of spending and investing your money

Buying a used car, what are the costs?

What are your rights when things go wrong?

During the course students will have free access to Banqer High, an online platform that teaches students about money. Students will also create their own class currency $$$. This will be used to pay them for coming to class at the end of the course, they can spend their accumulated wealth on various items during a giant class auction.