Software for kidpreneurs: Kids Business is designed to help budding entrepreneurs get their business up and running.If you're looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a software package to help walk a young person through the more complex aspects of starting a business, you'll want to check out Kids Business ($14.95, plus a $2 shipping charge). It is the software version of the book Fast Cash for Kids by Bonnie bon·ny also bon·nie adj. bon·ni·er, bon·ni·est Scots 1. Physically attractive or appealing; pretty. 2. Excellent. & Noel Drew (Homeland Publications League City, Texas). Kids Business' PC-compatible program provides a complete business start-up manual and features 101 business ideas, as well as worksheets and business forms. The forms section is particularly thorough, including everything from goals worksheets to profit-and-loss statements. The program also prints business cards and customer address lists. Finally, it teaches the user the principles of budgeting time and money. Simply put, Kids Business takes young entrepreneurs step-by-step through the process of launching a business. This software has caught the attention of educators looking to bring entrepreneurship training into the schools, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Bonnie Drew. "Both the software and book have been selected this year by the Oklahoma Department of Vocational and Technical Education as supplemental curriculum materials for entrepreneurship training in middle schools," she notes. Drew has also created an all-day conference called "Visions of Entrepreneurship" targeted to middle schools. "The curriculum developed by the state of Oklahoma will soon be available nationwide, which means the book and software will be going into about 200 schools in January," she says. The program is divided into five sections: * "Starting Your Business" focuses on guiding budding budding, type of grafting in which a plant bud is inserted under the bark of the stock (usually not more than a year old). It is best done when the bark will peel easily and the buds are mature, as in spring, late summer, or early autumn. entrepreneurs through the process of exploring potential business opportunities, choosing the one that seems best for them and then developing a business plan. * "Getting Customers" educates the user about the most critical business element of all: identifying and servicing the customer. The section also focuses on the principles and tools of sales and advertising. * "Handling Your Money" teaches the user about setting prices, developing a recordkeeping system and establishing a budget for the business. * "Selecting A Project" explores seasonal business project options, again with an eye toward finding the business most suitable to the user. * The final section features a glossary A term used by Microsoft Word and adopted by other word processors for the list of shorthand, keyboard macros created by a particular user. See glossaries in this publication and The Computer Glossary. of business terms and answers to commonly asked questions about running a kidpreneurial business. System requirements To be used efficiently, all computer software needs certain hardware components or other software resources to be present on a computer system. These pre-requisites are known as (computer) system requirements and are often used as a guideline as opposed to an absolute rule. for Kids Business are IBM PC A PC made by IBM. IBM created the PC industry in 1981 when it introduced its first model with 16KB of RAM. However, it was way off in its estimates, projecting that 250,000 units would be sold in the first five years. In fact, about three million IBM PCs were sold in that period. , AT, PS/2 or compatible and MS or PC-DOS The DOS operating system originally developed by Microsoft and supplied by IBM on its PCs before Windows 95 became the norm. Up until DOS 6, PC-DOS was almost identical to Microsoft's MS-DOS for non-IBM PCs, and both versions are called "DOS." See "IBM's DOS 6" under DOS 6. version 2.0 or later. The software comes on both 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch disks. For more information, contact Homeland Publications at 713-332-9764. |
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