ENHANCES FINANCE EDUCATION DECA members are twice as likely to continue their education and pursue a career in finance, which includes planning, banking, insurance and business financial management. More than 483 DECA advisors use DECA’s Comprehensive Learning Program in their financial courses at the secondary and post-secondary levels to enhance classroom instruction and improve student achievement. In addition, DECA’s wellestablished partnerships with leading financial partners help prepare DECA members for college and careers. Leveraging its integration into classroom instruction, applied learning methods and connection to business, DECA is a powerful program to help students learn knowledge and skills, develop 21st Century Skills and gain real-world experience.
DECA prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs for careers in marketing, finance, hospitality and management. With more than 215,000 members in high schools and colleges across the globe, DECA prepares the next generation to be academically prepared, community oriented, professionally responsible, experienced leaders. ■ www.deca.org
FINANCE CAREER PATHWAYS Through Career Clusters®, finance careers are grouped into five career pathways around their broad-based similarities. Accounting Accounting encompasses careers that record, classify, summarize, analyze and communicate a business’s financial information/ business transactions for use in management decision-making. Accounting includes such activities as bookkeeping, systems design, analysis, and interpretation of accounting information. Sample occupations include: accountant, accounting clerk, auditor, bookkeeper, controller, and cost analyst.
Banking Services Primarily concerned with accepting deposits, lending funds and extending credit, banking services include cash management, shortterm investments, mortgages and other loans, credit cards and bill payment. Banking services are delivered via a number of different institutions, from commercial banks (the largest group) and other traditional means (savings and loans associations, credit unions, and local banks) to newer ventures through insurance companies, brokerage houses and the internet. Sample occupations include: acquisitions specialist, branch manager, credit analyst, financial manager, loan officer or counselor, mortgage broker, relationship manager and trust officer.
FINANCE COURSES DECA offers programs that support these common finance courses offered at the secondary and post-secondary levels. Accounting Banking & Financial Services Business Economics Business Finance Finance Introduction to Business Personal Finance Principles of Finance
CLASSROOM RESOURCES
Corporate Finance The business finance function in a company is to manage policy and strategy for (and the implementation of ) capital structure, budgeting, acquisition and investment, financial modeling and planning, funding, dividends and taxation. Sample occupations include: capital budgeting specialist, capital expenditure manager, cash manager, credit analyst, financial analyst, foreign exchange manager, project analyst, project finance manager and treasurer.
Insurance The insurance industry, which exists to protect individuals and businesses from financial losses, delivers “products” that transfer risk from an individual or business to an insurance company. Sample occupations include: benefits consultant, branch manager, claims adjuster, insurance agent, insurance broker, loss control manager, producer, product manager, special investigator and underwriter.
Securities and Investments The investments industry consists of brokerage firms, investment banks and stock exchanges, all of which support the flow of funds from investors to companies and institutions. Related services include financial planning, asset management, hedge fund management and custody services. Sample occupations include: financial analyst, financial consultant, financial planner, investment banker, mutual fund manager, real estate developer, securities sales agent (broker) and trader.
Virtual Business Challenge DECA members test their financial fitness using the challenge version of VBC—Personal Finance. BU DGE T ING: CH E CK YOU RSE LF B E FORE YOU W RE CK YOU RSE LF
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FURTHER RESOURCES Mind on My Money & Money on My Mind: www.dosomething.org/save H&R Block Dollars & Sense: http://www.hrblockdollarsandsense.com
GAME TIME! Check out the Gen I Revolution game on this topic: http:/genirevolution.org
H&R Block Dollars & Sense A classroom packet helps chapters with the Financial Literacy Promotional Plan. Stock Market Game DECA members develop a stock portfolio and test their investment strategies in an online competition.
School-based Enterprises
DECA’s School-based Enterprise program integrates key finance principles, such as managing cash flow, auditing, financial controls, profit maximization, monitoring income and expenses and more through the operation of a small business within their school or community.
Chapter Financial Plans
DECA’S COMPREHENSIVE LEARNING PROGRAM DECA’s dynamic programs at the secondary and post-secondary level enhance classroom instruction and student achievement by integrating real-world experiences into the classroom and applying learning. Competitive Events
DECA’s Competitive Events Program directly supports our mission of preparing emerging leaders for careers in finance. As an integral part of classroom instruction, DECA’s industry validated competitive events apply learning, connect to business and promote competition. DECA’s competitive events span both secondary and post-secondary levels and are aligned with National Curriculum Standards in finance.
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Accounting Applications Series Business Finance Series Finance Operations Research Financial Consulting* Financial Literacy Promotion Project Financial Services Team Decision Making Personal Financial Literacy * Principles of Finance Stock Market Game Virtual Business Challenge-Personal Finance *Launches 2014-2015.
Accounting Banking Financial Services Corporate Finance Financial Statement Analysis
Finance Competitive Events
■ deca.org/competitions/highschool
Finance Competitive Events
■ deca.org/competitions/college
DECA members learn important finance principles through the development of an annual operating budget for chapter activities. DECA members then identify funding sources and implement strategies, such as chapter fundraisers, to achieve their goals while maintaining their budget with accounting practices.
DECA Direct Online
Through DECA’s communications, DECA members are exposed to a variety of high-quality articles around topics such as careers in finance, personal finance strategies, financing college and more.
DECA Educational Conferences
Many of DECA’s educational conferences include key finance components. For example, DECA’s New York Experience includes a guided tour of the Financial District, while specialized finance academies featuring industry speakers are held at the Collegiate Leadership Academy and the Collegiate DECA International Career Development Conference.
PARTNERS AND AFFILIATES DECA partners with more than sixty organizations that provide educational resources, professional insight on content and crucial financial support for programming. DECA’s business partners are recognized as our National Advisory Board (NAB). Each enhances the classroom experience by providing “real world” application to learning. DECA’s finance partners include:
The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) is the world’s largest member association representing the accounting profession. The AICPA sponsors DECA’s Accounting Applications Series Event and is supporting DECA’s efforts to create assessment tools related to personal financial literacy.
Piper Jaffray is a leading fullservice investment bank and asset management firm serving clients in the U.S. and internationally. Piper Jaffray conducts national teen opinion research as a dynamic learning opportunity that supports classroom teaching, student achievement and overall college and career readiness. ■ www.piperjaffray.com
■ www.aicpa.org
Goodheart-Wilcox has educational products available related to finance, accounting, banking, insurance and financial literacy. ■ www.g-w.com
One of the world’s largest tax services provider, H&R Block is committed to helping students become financially literate citizens. Through its H&R Block Dollars and Sense Program, H&R Block sponsors DECA’s Financial Literacy Promotion Project and has developed resources to help promote this initiative. ■ www.hrblock.com
The SIFMA Foundation for Investor Education (SIFMA Foundation), an affiliate of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, provides sound educational programming to schools across the country. The SIFMA Foundation operates DECA’s Stock Market Game (SMG), an online investment simulation. ■ www.sifma.org
View all of DECA’s partners online. ■ www.deca.org/partners
DECA IN ACTION Coral Glades DECA in Coral Springs, Fla., routinely and successfully integrates DECA’s financial competitive events and activities into classroom instruction. As a result, chapter members have been recognized for outstanding achievement at the local, state and international levels of DECA competition. At the 2013 International Career Development Conference, Coral Glades DECA members had one first place finish and three other finishes in the top ten in various competitive events. With more than 15 years experience as a DECA advisor, Jillian Berg, is the lead teacher at the Coral Glades Academy of Finance, which offers courses in finance, AP economics, marketing and fashion. As a means of teaching and assessing student knowledge and skills related to finance, Jillian incorporates many of DECA’s competitive events into her curriculum and instruction. Sample role-plays from DECA’s Accounting Applications Series Event, Financial Services Team Decision Making Event and Business Finance Series Event and project plans from DECA’s Finance Operations Research Event and Financial Literacy Promotion Project have all been incorporated into classroom instruction. “Finance is an important, realworld concept for students to understand,” said Berg. “DECA really connects finance to what students will be doing in the real-world once they graduate.”