This document outlines the modules and requirements for an enterprise project. The project involves setting up a business and going through the stages of planning, operations, culmination, and review. Students will learn skills like cooperation, decision-making, problem-solving, and personal development. They will complete key assignments like creating a business plan, conducting market research, keeping a diary, and reporting on their experience. The project will be graded based on criteria like originality, cross-curricular applications, presentation, research, carrying out tasks, findings analysis, and self-evaluation.

1. The Task
Enterprise 1
For Profit

2. Purpose Of Enterprise Module
To enable you to set-up, organise and run your
own enterprises.
Through direct involvement and practical
experience you will gain understanding of how a
business operates.
To learn co-operation and teamwork.

3. Four Units
• Unit 1: Planning For Enterprise
• Unit 2: Operational Unit
• Unit 3: Culminating Unit
• Unit 4: Review Of Experience

4. Key Assignments 1
I have listed the main steps involved in
establishing an enterprise and identified my
personal involvement in the decision making
process.

5. Key Assignments 2
I conducted a market research survey and
undertook an analysis of my findings using a
computer.
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6. Key Assignment 3
I kept a diary of my personal involvement.

7. Key Assignment 4
I produced a report of my experience under the
following headings:
1. Working as part of a team
2. Decision-making
3. Solving problems
4. Selling our product / service outside of the school or
organisation
5. Personal learning from the enterprise experience

8. Unit 1: Planning

9. In This Unit You Will Learn
• What Enterprise is.
• What skills and qualities are needed
to be an entrepreneur.
• The stages in setting up an enterprise.
1 2 3

10. In This Unit You Will Learn
• How to organise, run & manage a business.
• About the different jobs within companies and
your role.
• How to work as a team.

11. In This Unit You Will Learn
• To calculate financial accounts.
• To advertise your company.
• To make business decisions.
• To work with your community in
a business situation. ?????

12. Unit 2: Operational Unit
You Will Cover
• Your Ability To Make Decisions
• Performing Your Role
• Quality Control
• Advertising & Sales
• Health & Safety
• Wages & Commissions
• Company Rules
• A Review Of The Enterprise
• Trade Fairs

13. In Unit 3 Culminating
Unit
• How to wind up your business.
• How to do a Trading Profit & Loss Account & a
Balance Sheet.
• To assess how your business went.

14. In Unit 4 Review You Will Cover
• Skills Developed
• Individual Performance
• Group Performance
• Successes
• Problems Solved
• Decision Making
• The Future

15. Structure / Originality
• Your Task should be original - i.e. all your own
work.
• The design should be creative – i.e. colourful
with plenty of relevant pictures, videos and
graphs / bar charts
This is worth 10 marks.

16. Structure / Cross Curricular
• Three other subjects from Leaving Cert applied.
For example:
This is worth 10 marks.

17. Structure / Presentation
• Your Task should be typed up.
• It should be: neat
clear
organised.
A well presented task is worth 10 marks.

18. Structure / Presentation
• Your Task should begin with a Table of Contents
with page numbers.

19. 1) Aims
• It should begin with two clear aims that make sense
and are relevant to the task.
• What you plan to do to achieve aim.
• You should have two goals / aims in your Business
Plan.
This is worth 10 marks.

20. 2) Research & Planning
Your first section should be titled
Research & Planning
It should contain:
• Evidence of background research
• Identification of your target group

21. 2) Research & Planning
• A Skills assessment (your own & your group’s)
• A Resource assessment

22. 2) Research & Planning
• Market research
• Alternatives considered
• Information gathering techniques

23. 2) Research & Planning
• Your Action Plan
• Your Business Plan with projections
This is worth 20 marks.

24. 3) Carrying Out The Task
Your second section should be titled
Carrying Out The Task
It should contain:
• A description of the activity
• A description of your role

25. 3) Carrying Out The Task
• A description of your group’s roles
• Resources used
• Problems encountered
• Any adaptation of plans

26. 3) Carrying Out The Task
• Quality Control measures
• Health & Safety implementation
• Evidence of your involvement
This is worth 20 marks.

27. 4) Presentation & Analysis Of
Findings
Your third section should be titled:
Presentation & Analysis of Findings
It should contain:
• Any methods used to measure outcomes / success
– i.e. Any profits? Were your aims achieved?.

28. 4) Presentation & Analysis Of
Findings
• Any analysis & evaluation of results leading to
conclusions.
• Strengths

29. 4) Presentation & Analysis Of
Findings
• Weaknesses –
• Suggestions for improvement relating
conclusions to original aims.
This is worth 10 marks.

30. 5) Self Evaluation
Your fourth section should be titled:
Self Evaluation
It should contain:
• An evaluation of your own role
• Some knowledge about yourself
• Any skills / attitudes developed

31. 5) Self Evaluation
• Any difficulties encountered
• Any lessons learned about yourself for the
future.
• This is worth 10 marks.