Commerce
The study of Commerce aims to guide students towards personal competence and responsible participation in the changing commercial environment
A study of Commerce should guide students towards an understanding of Australia's changing commercial environment and enhance their personal competence to participate responsibly in that environment. It should also provide a means whereby young people are made aware of the forces of change, in particular, rapid changes in information technology and increasing global commercial interdependence.
Life involves individuals in relationships with other people and institutions. Many of these relationships are commercial, involving the production, distribution and exchange of goods and services to satisfy individual and community wants. Individuals, groups, organisations and governments interact in the commercial environment to satisfy these wants.
The ways in which people satisfy their wants differ. This diversity reflects gender, cultural and socio-economic differences in Australian society. The commercial environment, through which we satisfy many of our wants, is based upon commercial practices derived from generally accepted values, attitudes and traditions.
These practices are supported by a framework of laws and regulations which establish the rights and responsibilities of the parties involved. As participants in the commercial environment, individuals assume various roles such as consumer, producer, worker, owner, manager, unionist and taxpayer.
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