Influences on business environments -- Challenges of the business environment -- Adapting to challenges of the business environment -- Contemporary socio-economic elements -- Business sectors -- Benefits of a company over other forms of ownership -- Avenues of acquiring a business -- Creative thinking and problem solving -- Stress and crisis management -- Transformations of a business plan into an action plan -- Setting up a business -- Professionalism and ethics -- Presentation of business information -- Entrepreneurial qualities and success factors -- Citizenship roles and responsibilities -- Marketing function -- Production function -- Team dynamics and conflict management -- Introduction to Human Resources