Final Report of the Expert Group - European Commission - Europa

• Analysing and planning own activities;• Improving own learning and performance.Business skills:• Understanding how a business works, and how wealth is created;• Entrepreneurial thinking and generation of business ideas;• Basic economics;• Experience of key business functions;• Developing market research;• Developing a business plan;• Enterprise organisation and management;• Human resources management;• Financial literacy;• Budgeting and allocating resources;• Raising finance through shares, sponsors, loans;• Calculating product cost and profit;• Accounting;• Marketing;• Advertising a product/service;• Putting on an exhibition, and taking part in a trade fair;• Sales and purchasing techniques;• Administrative procedures;• Understanding health and safety issues;• Drafting business correspondence, documentation and reports;• Developing and managing business contacts, interacting with the local community;• Running a business meeting.2.3. Inventory of programmesAn inventory of student company programmes in secondary school was carried out as part ofthis project, based on information gathered at national level and on the adopted definition ofmini-company (§ 1.3). In this context, 82 programmes have been identified across Europe(in 24 countries participating to this study).The inventory shows that more than half of the these programmes (52) are promoted byorganisations that are members of some European network, notably Junior Achievement –Young Enterprise Europe (26 programmes) and EUROPEN (17 programmes).Although members of the above networks share the same objectives and have basic elementsof methodology in common, differences in the implementation are found at national level18