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Do the exercises and show your work
7–14 weeks (4 hrs/week)
Take Introduction to Business for free and do the end-of-chapter questions and the case in each chapter (forms of business, markets, money, people, operations). Keep your answers in one public place (a repo, a shared folder or a page) as you go, with your reasoning shown.
Proof required
Link your public folder with the end-of-chapter questions and the case in each chapter (forms of business, markets, money, people, operations), and show your self-check (Introduction to Business: end-of-chapter questions).
What gets checked
- Case answers use the chapter's ideas, named.
- Review questions are answered before the key is read.
- Mistakes are listed with the correction.
Common mistakes
- Answers copied from a key: verifiers read the reasoning.
- Numbers with no working.
- Asking for review before the self-check.
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A public folder with your worked answers to the end-of-chapter questions and the case in each chapter (forms of business, markets, money, people, operations).
Steps
- Make a public folder or repo for this course.
- Do one chapter or problem set at a time and save it.
- Self-check: Answer each chapter's review questions before you read the answer. Where the book gives an answer key, mark yourself against it; for the rest, check each answer against the chapter text and note the section. Write down what you got wrong.
- Fix what the self-check shows, and say what you fixed.
- Ask three people who know the topic to check it.
Template
README Course: Introduction to Business (OpenStax Introduction to Business (free book)) What is here: Self-check result: The hardest question and why:
What gets sent back
- Answers with no working.
- Self-check not shown.
Resources
Foundationstart here
Depthgo deeper
What a verifier looks for
- Case answers use the chapter's ideas, named.
- Review questions are answered before the key is read.
- Mistakes are listed with the correction.
- Pick two answers and check every step.
- Ask about one step; the answer should be clear.
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Profile a real local business
1–3 weeks (5–8 hrs/week)
Use what you learned. Make a one-page profile of a real business near you, from an interview or public information: who its customers are, how money comes in and goes out, and one change you would test. Put it where verifiers can open it. Use public information, or data you have permission to use; never publish a real person's private details.
Proof required
Link a one-page profile of a real business near you, from an interview or public information: who its customers are, how money comes in and goes out, and one change you would test, and a short note on what you decided or changed because of it.
What gets checked
- The business is real and named (or described) and the source is stated.
- Money flow is correct and each figure has a source.
- The change is specific and could be tested.
Common mistakes
- Invented or unsourced figures.
- A conclusion the evidence does not support.
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A one-page profile of a real business near you, from an interview or public information: who its customers are, how money comes in and goes out, and one change you would test.
Steps
- Write one line: what you will show.
- Gather the real data, people or documents.
- Draft it, then read it cold the next day.
- Ask someone to mark the first claim they doubt.
- Fix it and ask three people to check it.
Template
Title: What this shows: Sources: Method: Result: Limits:
What gets sent back
- Unsourced numbers.
- Not clearly the person's own work.
- Claims more than it shows.
Resources
Foundationstart here
Depthgo deeper
What a verifier looks for
- The business is real and named (or described) and the source is stated.
- Money flow is correct and each figure has a source.
- The change is specific and could be tested.
- Check that the work is the person's own and the sources are real.
- Ask how a number was found.
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