2008-2009 NLC Topics—Future Business Leaders of America

BUSINESS PRESENTATION

The principal has asked you to create a presentation on how individuals—especially youth—can stay safe on the Internet.  Include information on paying bills and viewing financial records on the Web, online shopping and banking, sharing personal information (through Web sites such as Facebook, Second Life, and YouTube), and any additional Internet Safety information you feel appropriate for youth.

BUSINESS FINANCIAL PLAN

The local garden center has been in business for five years.  Currently the garden center leases the property and buildings.  The lease is soon expiring.  The owner of the garden center would like to purchase the property from the current owners.  This garden center has no competitors within a ten mile radius.  Prepare a business financial plan for purchase of the property that will be presented to a banking institution.  The plan will need to include at minimum information on the sales history of the company, projected earnings, current assets, and the benefits of buying versus leasing of the property.  Information can be fictitious.

DIGITAL VIDEO PRODUCTION

Create a promotional digital video highlighting a teaching career in business education.  Some of your points might include (1) testimonials from students and teachers, (2) nature of work, (3) working conditions, (4) employment opportunities, (5) training and other qualifications, (6) advancement, (7) professional opportunities to serve, (8) professional networking with other teachers, and (9) other points about teaching that you would like to include.  The main audience of this video will be high school juniors and seniors, so be sure to include language and technologies that will appeal to them.  The video should feature a business education career in general rather than specific to a particular state’s requirements.

DESKTOP APPLICATION PROGRAMMING

You have been hired by the national office of Future Business Leaders of America—Phi Beta Lambda.

You will design a program to keep the data current allowing the addition and change of records.  Each record in the master file contains the members’ numbers, name, school, year joined, a code for active/non-active, and amount owed.

You will design a report that will produce a list of members from the master file that has the member number, member name, year joined, and amount owed.  Include only the members owing a balance.  The report footer should include the total number of non-active members, the total number of active members, total of members owing and the total amount owed.  Print page headings and column headings at the top of each page, allowing for 45 detail lines per page and a the end of the report, the footer information as described below.

You may design your master file, update program, and report output as you see fit.

(OR)

Example:

Future Business Leaders of America—Phi Beta Lambda

Current Account Balances

xx/xx/xx                                                                                                                                                              page:  xx

MEMBER                             MEMBER                             SCHOOL                                               ACCOUNT

NUMBER                             NAME                                   NAME                                                   BALANCE

xxxxx                                    xxxxxxxxxxx                      xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx                                        999.99

xxxxx                                    xxxxxxxxxxx                      xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx                                        999.99

xxxxx                                    xxxxxxxxxxx                      xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx                                        999.99

xxxxx                                    xxxxxxxxxxx                      xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx                                        999.99

    :                                                     :                                              :                                                             :

Total non-active members xxxxx                              Total active members xxxxx        Total Balance 9,999.99

E-BUSINESS

Your FBLA chapter has asked you to design a Web site for a flower and plant sale.  Create a website where customers can preorder flowers and plants.  The site should be designed to generate revenue for a chapter.  Included in the site should be a navigation bar to allow customers to view and select for purchase items for sale.  It must also offer a shopping cart, pricing and payment information—including payment options, delivery options, and security/service information.

EMERGING BUSINESS ISSUES

It has been proposed that the Federal government offer temporary worker status to undocumented men and women now employed in the United States and to those in foreign countries who have been offered employment here.  The workers under temporary status must pay a one-time fee to register in the program, abide by the rules, and return home after the period of their work expires.  There would be an opportunity for renewal.  In the future, only people outside the U.S. may join the temporary worker program, and there will be an orderly system in place to address the needs of workers and companies.  You should be prepared to argue the affirmative that a temporary worker program is essential to the national economy or the negative that the economy can handle the tightening of immigration laws without a temporary worker program.

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WEB SITE DEVELOPMENT

Develop a Web site that will keep track of your chapter’s alumni.  The Web site will need to have a user-friendly interface for users to enter their information; easily access others’ information; view details on upcoming events, chapter sponsorship opportunities, and a photo gallery of past and present events; a means for the alumni to communicate with other alumni.