Financial Week

Well the business pitch is in four days, it is so close and I feel like we still have so much to do so hopefully we can pull it all off for Monday.  This week in business we have been working on the financial part of the business plan and it has been hard...  Yesterday (Tuesday) I was freaking out in class because part of the financials got so hard and I had no idea how to do the break-even analysis.  But eventually it was all figured out.  So it turns out that we will have to have twenty thousand deliveries every month over the summer, for three months.  And eleven thousand deliveries a month over the winter, over a span of nine months in order to meet our break-even analysis.  With these numbers we mill break-even plus a little.  We have been working on the financial part of the business plan since I think Thursday and we are still not done!  We still have like six parts we have to do and it is taking so long because we have so many different things that we have to talk about in every section of every part of the business plan.  We are so close but still so far till the end of the year!  And as of right now the seniors have seven school days left, I did not think that we had school next Friday but I just found out that we do :,( so I am sad.  Because I know that other years they did not come the day after but maybe they did, I do not know, I really just do not want to come.  And all the teachers are trying to cram stuff in I have a debate tomorrow in Government, a Stats project, a new biology project to present, and then this big project for business.

Business Pitch

This week in business we worked on our business pitch and I think that it went really well!  We had Mr. Gargaro's class come in to listen to our pitches and give us feedback.  They actually gave our group really good feedback and we benefited a lot from it.  Mr. Gargaro actually gave us a really good idea to use a rewards program so people that order from us every week will have some type of benefit.  We are going to put this in our business plan and use it to our benefit.  Then we started working on the financial part of the business plan and honestly I really do not like it,  It is pretty hard.  This week I have about given up on school because we pretty much have no time left.  The beginning of this week we worked on modules and I hated them!  The quizzes were okay but I hated how you had to listen to every video in order to get to the next step.  It took me two hours to finish because it took the whole class plus a little bit of time when I got home.  Actually, that night I went home and did my homework right away so I would be free for the night and the last module was not that bad.  This week will be the last week for the business plan and to get ready for our pitch! Scary Scary!

Business Plan Week

So this week we really jumped into the Business Plan project and we have been working on it all week.  So far I think we have gone over about six pages that we had to do?  I thought this was going to be way harder than it actually is but once you get going it is not that bad but then again as you keep going you keep coming up with new things that may go wrong with the business.  When working on the business plan I feel bad because I am constantly asking Mrs. Weser questions when she is trying to get work done.  I will ask one question turn around work for a few minutes then turn back around and ask another.  I am hoping that the presentation on the day of shark tank will be easier than creating this whole business plan.  The good thing is that we will not have an exam which makes it so much easier since it is the end of the year.  Since it is only Wednesday so far we have done one case study for the week.  The videos are really weird that we have to watch and Arron and Sylvia are not the smartest, they should never be business owners.  I have a feeling that today in class we will take a quiz on the case study that we did yesterday, learn about two or three pages in the business plan and then have the rest of the time to work on

it because we need as much time as we can get.

Project Week

This week we did out interview project.  I was with Nick and we pretended to be interviewing Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook.  When I came up with the script and doing some research on him, I actually found it really interesting.  I found out a lot about him and how he came to be and I liked to learn about him.  I did not really like doing the actual video part because I do not like being on camera and talking in front of people.  Then we did a case study everyday and took a short quiz which was good because it was an easy quiz grade for us.  Then we were introduced to our business plan project that will be our final.  I could not believe how long the business plan document is going to be and I have no more motivation so I do not know how I am going to be able to do it.  Me, Moira, and Danielle chose to pair up with food places at the ocean front and we will deliver food to people of the beach.  So we will make an app where they can pinpoint there exact location and we will take a four wheeler to them so we can bring them there food.  Therefore, they do not have to get up and walk up and down the whole beach looking for food.  We will work for other business but we still be our own small business within them.  I think that we came up with a good idea and I hope that we will be able to come up with a good project for this plan.

The Week Back from Spring Break

So this was the first week back from Spring Break... and it was rough.  It is only Wednesday and I have no idea how I am going to be able to make it through the rest of the week.  I can barely get up in the morning and I feel like I have given up on school already since we have like a month of school left.  So we have been back only three days and I already have three projects to be working on and three quiz's this week.  So now it is clear that all of the teachers are going to try and push everything in these last few weeks.  However, in business we are still working on our marketing projects and just got introduced to a new project that will be due next Thursday.  The good thing is Danielle, Moira, and I already have two of our marketing posters done and our video is almost done so we got that done pretty fast.  We also had a quiz yesterday which was a little different then I expected but still think that I did pretty well on it.  Then today we watched the Oprah Effect which I found really cool and interesting.  It was just amazing to see how easily Oprah can influence something on people.  She can say that she likes a small product and that person's product will increase in profits by millions of dollars.  Just one little thing that she says can have other people that she barely knows become successful business people.  I personally think that she has this effect just because of who she is.  Because when people are trying to sell something and that product is on a celebrity, it sells so well.  So it is the same case for the Oprah Effect.  People look up to Oprah and she is a lot of people's role model so when she says that she uses, loves, or likes something from a business the people that look up to her are going to do exactly what she does.

Accounting Week

This week all we pretty much did was accounting.  At first I liked accounting because it was not so hard, then it got a lot more detailed and I did not like it anymore.  However, the quiz was not that bad because I kind of like to do things like we did, that have a lot of steps, organization, and something repetitive- it is kind of like when you are cleaning something and it has to be perfect so OCD.  The good thing was that my trial balance balanced at the end perfectly!  This week we also got a new seating arrangement but that was not bad.  Then next week we have mid-terms and I know that this accounting stuff will be on there which will make the exam soo long, but it should not be that bad.  On a side note, Seniors, after mid-terms we only have like five or six weeks not nine :) That is the good news!  I am really glad that we were able to drag out accounting before the mid-term instead of rushing it because it would have been a lot worse and harder if it were rushed.  This week for the thought question on Thursday we had to make a story of some sort with the words that Mrs. Weser gave us and it is always really hard to come up with a decent story on the spot or in that short amount of time.  However, Pablo's Poem was actually really good.  He made the poem in like ten minutes using all of the words he needed and it was still so good.  Also for the thought question on Friday we had to read the headlining article.  My article was about Snapchat and it it was really interesting because that is the new biggest thing in America.  Snapchat has over one hundred million users and Disney world is actually using one of the largest friended user on Snapchat.  This man has 240,000 friends so they have him go to the Halloween parties every night from Labor Day till October 31st and he dresses as soup.  He stands outside to take pictures with people and kids and shows how fast that someone else takes a picture of it off snapchat and it posts it somewhere else.  Hope everyone has a good weekend :)

Monopoly Week

This week in business we started learning about Accounting which at first I did not seem like it would be interesting but it is more interesting then I thought it would be just a lot of work.  So Monday we took notes on accounting and learned some of the things we need to do to be successful in accounting.  We learned the equation, assets = liabilities + owner's equity and how to balance it.  The balancing part was very easy, just some simple math.  Then we learned about the ways to record every transaction which was a little confusing at first but it is easier now, however, there is a lot to remember to write down.  We did a worksheet on that to teach us how to record the information and by the end of the class we were playing monopoly.  Well my group never really started that day because we could not figure the money situation at all and then we only had one die when we should have had two.  Then on Wednesday we played monopoly the whole class and it got so chaotic because I was constantly writing transactions down.  When I would be buying a piece of property someone else would be landing on my other property and have to pay me so I would have to write a lot at one, I got through two whole pages of transactions.  I like playing monopoly in class because one, it is a game and two, it is really laid back you just have to remember to write down every time you get money or lose money.  Also, it seems like Danielle's group is doing really well with their sales for the week, so that's good!  I bought a donut from them today and it was really good!  I think that they are going to be very successful, good luck!