Level 1 Commerce

Commerce is the use and exploration of accounting, economic, and business concepts and models to make sense of society and solve problems. In this subject, students will build the knowledge, skills, and values they need to navigate, and participate in, the economic world. They will learn how participants in the economic world make decisions, and they will analyse how these decisions impact on sustainability.

Students will learn that decision-making is necessitated by scarcity and that decisions are informed by a variety of cultural perspectives and lenses. Learning and assessment will examine different approaches to commerce, and business models from whānau and organisation contexts.

Students of Commerce will:

• explore how different information and models can be used to communicate financial and non-financial decisions.
• apply problem-solving skills to situations in their local communities.
• learn to think about problems from the perspective of other people and groups.
• understand that Māori, Pacific, and other perspectives have different models and concepts.
• develop a toolkit which allows them to work through real-life problems relating to individual, whānau, and community financial wellbeing
• begin exploring what role they play, or will play, in the economy, from both a cultural and professional viewpoint
• make increasingly appropriate selections of models and concepts in appropriate circumstances.