Curriculum Aims

The overall aims of the Business, Accounting and Financial Studies (BAFS) curriculum are:

• to provide students at senior secondary level with fundamental business knowledge and skills, and develop their positive values and attitudes, so that they can fulfil their roles competently and confidently as consumers, investors, employees and/or entrepreneurs;
• to develop students’ generic skills in research, analysis, leadership, team-building, communication, critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving and transfer them to different domains; and
• to explore different aspects of business to prepare students for life, for learning and for employment.

Curriculum Structure and Organisation

The BAFS curriculum is built upon a contemporary business curriculum structure planned in line with the fast-changing local and global social and economic circumstances. It draws on a range of business-related disciplines (such as accounting, business management and finance) to highlight their complex interrelationships. The learning elements are interrelated, to mirror the real business world.

It is considered that an integrated understanding of the essential business areas: business environment, accounting, management and personal finance will prepare students well for dealing with their both personal and business finance when they engage in business and financial activities such as consumption, work and investment in adulthood. The emphasis on different roles as consumer, employee, entrepreneur and investor will enhance their understanding of business knowledge as a whole, and enable them to view business-related decisions from different angles.

The BAFS curriculum offers two strands of study for students to choose from, namely:

Strand (A) – Accounting Strand

Strand (B) – Business Management Strand

Each strand comprises a compulsory and an elective part to strike a balance between breadth and depth of four main business areas, which include two common topics in the compulsory part, i.e. ‘Business Environment’ and ‘Basics of Personal Financial Management’, as well as ‘Accounting’ and ‘Business Management’, with one area covered in the compulsory part for basic understanding and the other in the elective part for in-depth study.   

The compulsory part provides a broad-based foundation of business for students to prepare for an in-depth study of concepts and knowledge in specific modules in the elective part. It is thus important that the concepts and learning elements in the compulsory part should be integrated, synthesised and re-examined in the related module in the elective part whenever appropriate.

Teachers

Mr. Yip YH and Ms Lam KY