The Experiential Entrepreneurship course has helped my to expand my mind in a lot of ways. Firstly, it was has allowed me to get an understanding of business theory from a more practical perspective by having to apply it to TJX. When I was born my father was already a high ranking executive at a large company. Since then, he has become a CEO. Because of this, I have always had a lot of exposure to business concepts and terms, because it would sometimes come up in conversation with my father. As a result, I have built up a pretty solid concept of business over my young life. In being assigned to a project in which we had to write the most comprehensive business document, the business plan, I had an opportunity to apply what I knew and try to fit it into a concept for a new business that my teammates and I came up with. In
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One thing that I had not covered in as much detail in high school was accounting, for example. In the BUSN1101 course I learnt a lot of stuff that I did not previously know, such as the difference between accounting and finance, or how a balance sheet acts as a ‘snapshot’ of a business in the present. I truly feel that this has helped me to have a better business mind in that I feel that I have a more clear understanding of important concepts. Another thing that this course has helped me to work on is the aspect of teamwork and accomplishing a goal as a group. For the college application essay that I had to write to apply one of the key concepts that I wrote about was teamwork, and how I believed that success in business is always a group accomplishment, so teamwork and the ability to work with teammates to be as productive as possible is as key as anything in being a successful business-person, in particular in a leadership
One thing that I had not covered in as much detail in high school was accounting, for example. In the BUSN1101 course I learnt a lot of stuff that I did not previously know, such as the difference between accounting and finance, or how a balance sheet acts as a ‘snapshot’ of a business in the present. I truly feel that this has helped me to have a better business mind in that I feel that I have a more clear understanding of important concepts. Another thing that this course has helped me to work on is the aspect of teamwork and accomplishing a goal as a group. For the college application essay that I had to write to apply one of the key concepts that I wrote about was teamwork, and how I believed that success in business is always a group accomplishment, so teamwork and the ability to work with teammates to be as productive as possible is as key as anything in being a successful business-person, in particular in a leadership