Competition and Market Structure

Wondering why home financing relaxed in the years following Y2K? In the third of a four-part series, Sal describes the investment phenomenon between 2000 and 2006 that allowed more people to bid on homes and increased demand...

Discusses how a corporation can shelter its profits through transfer pricing. [6:46]

Students distinguish between the terms 'cost' and 'revenue' and examine the concept of 'profit'. They analyze the difference between a profit and loss account and a balance sheet.

Students examine what a business does. They study the business process - inputs through to outputs and explore how profit is made

Who is responsible for protecting the environment, and who should pay when it is damaged? The role of government and private industry is complicated. A role-play simulation prompts individuals to decide how to protect a fictitious town...

A description of what a nonprofit organization is, and examples from around the world of features they usually have in common and differences in structure and function. Also discusses problems that nonprofits experience.

Upper graders explore the connection between interest and principal. They use an amortization schedule to determine the amount of principal paid vs interest on a $100,000 home loan. Fourteen discussion questions and a research-based...

Students research the member countries that make up the Commonwealth. They develop research skills using atlases. They define the word community. They complete an online geography quiz.

Pupils work together to research leaders of disadvantaged groups. They identify how these people use the nonprofit sector to make positive changes. They discuss how the leader uses the democratic core values and present the information...

Pupils examine the various business structures and select the best one to use in a art business plan that they have developed. They compare the benefits and risks of each business structure then discuss in small groups the merits of the...