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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1968-05-30, Page 16This is the age of the computer and commercial students at SHDHS are being trained to live in that age. The school has an IBM card-punch machine, which is being operated here by Gail Shipman. Bookkeeping courses of value to everyone Modern bookkeeping machines are also used by the students, preparing them for the equipment they will find when they move into the business world. Working on the machines, from the left: Joyce Pickering, Sandra O'Rourke and Heath- er McLeod. noc s or commercial class 1.3Y W. P. NIM3.S.Tgll Commercial Director As the artieleP in, this. Paper will attest, the PPuth Huro4 DJStrJet High, School Board haS spent a great Oeal of time and Money toprpvide equipment and facilities, to give the students of the Exeter area all the educa- tional advantages ppssible, I feel, as the Commercial Director of this fiee estab, lishment, that the biggest problem of the immediate ftitere is to persuade the students of this area to take advantage of these facilities. Most of the money spent in this last addition went into the building and equipping of Technical and Commer- cial educational areas but less than half the student body is enrolled in these programs. Opportunity i s knocking and I hope that many peo- ple will hear and answer the knock. In the Commercial depart- ment we can offer the five year student an academic program that is second to none and will allow him or her to go on to University if he or she chooses, and at the same time will give the student some very practical skills that will be of great use regardless of when they leave school or of the life's work they choose. A student of the five-year Commercial program is equal in academic qualifica- tions to a student of the five- year Arts and Science pro- gram because they take the same basic subjects and at the same time take the "cream" of the commercial subjects. I am sure that the readers of this article will admit that a knowledge of the basic principles and skills of the -business world is essential in this ever expanding and demanding society in which we live. The various courses will be dealt with in other arti- cles in this paper butl would like to mention one or two at this time, to point out to the reader some of the new aspects of commercial education in South Huron District High School. One “Case in Point" is Data Processing that has been introduced for the first time this year. We are be- coming aware of the ever increasing influence that the computer has on our lives and I am ,sure, that as, tine gees by, we hill be more and, more intinehced by the c' Machine' At the Present time we are giving a course in Data Processing at the grade ten level to the-four-year busi- ness and commerce stu- dents. We are also giving an I.B.M. KeYpunch course to the four-year business and commerce students at the grade twelve level, These courses should be given to more than a selec- ted few and would be given tq the five-year business and commerce students if enough students enrolled in the five- year business and commerce Program , At the present time we have no five-year busi- ness and commerce classes. I feel the reason for this is partly a lack of knowledge about the various five-year programmes; also a reluc- tance to accept, anything new in the line of education. (The General Course was the only one leading entrance in the past but this is no longer the case. We fail to accept that fact that any other course is on a par with the General Course, now called Five-Year Arts andScience, so we pass up many oppor- tunities by clinging to the past). The grade ten course in data processing is a fa- miliarization course de- signed to make the students aware of the fundamental principles and terms and equipment used in the data processing field. It is also an introductory course to the more difficult work of computer programming that could be introduced at the grade eleven level. We also make the students aware of the many employ- ment possibilities in the data processing field. These op- portunities are available to a graduate of the four-year, five-year and the university student. The Keypunch course given to the grade twelve students is to provide im- mediate saleable skill upon graduation or essenti al knowledge if they intend to further their education in the data processing field. Even though at some fu- ture time the use of the punched card may be re- placed by some other faster means of computer input you only have to look at the ciassifed Section of the newspaper te, see that, there is at the PrePent,.time Of Mancl for the ICeYlaunchePer- ator and I feel that thiS nland Will continue for some time in the future because of costs of other methods of doing the same job, Another opportunity that could be extended to embrace the five-year business and commerce course is the Business. Machines course. In this course the studePts are taught the operation of adding machines, calcula- tors, bookkeeping machines, duplicators of various types and copiers of various types. The Commercial Depart- ment at South Huron is Sec- ond- to -None in the list of, office equipment for use in the education of our Com- mercial classes. However, the point I would like to make at this time, is the fact that we could, and want to extend to more stn- dents, the opportunities that are available in the Com- mercial F iel d. Read the other articles in this paper for more details and par- ticulars about the Commer- cial Education at South Huron For those people who know that they will not be employed in an office or who know that they are going to continue beyond secondary education I would like to point out one or two facts. Everyone, if he is to succeed in any line of endeavour, must learn some of the fundamental rules of the business world. The skill of typing and the principals of Book- keeping can be of great use to a student at university who must type essays and reports or to the farmer that must keep his own books. A skill, once learned, is never completely forgotten and can be called upon at a future date, even though un- used for years. I could go on at great lengths but I will not be- labour the point any farther. • We have a beautiful school in Exeter. We have a very active and progressive Com- mercial Department at South Huron and we in the Com- mercial Department a r e anxious to make Commer- cial Education in Exeter the best in the Province and to extend it to as many stu- dents as possible. Opportunity is knocking. Will you answer it? for facts and figures, the professions of bookkeeping and accounting have devel- oped to provide, at speci- fied intervals, the financial pictures required for the guidance of ownership. The Bookkeeping course at SHDHS teaches the meth- ods, to appropriately des- cribe and accumulate the monetary „measurements necessary to determine pro- fit or loss for any financial period and to develop the resultant financial state- ments showing the changes in value of ownership or capital. Only recently has the farmer become aware of the value in keeping records. Through the use of book- keeping methods he can now determine the profit or loss in each area of his opera- tion by, for example, re- cording the costs applicable to each type of crop and the income from each one. Because he now uses records he can see that if he is losing money in some areas, he must eliminate these and concentrate in the future on more profitable ones. The same principle ap- plies to any business. We must record income and ex- penditures systematically and accurately to show a periodic picture of business operations in order to com- petently plan future actions, and to budget efficiently both time and finances. Cutting costs has saved many businesses, but only if records are properly maintained can ownership see which costs can be re- duced without being detri- mental to efficient opera- tion. The course in. Bookkeeping at SHDHS in not a course in memory work but rather a detailed development of the subject, presented with ex- ercises so that the student will understand why each transaction is made and how to apply it according to book- keeping principles arid con- ventions. A student in any of the secondary school programs would be well advised to consider the study of Book- keeping for at least one year because it provides the basic background or knowledge of bookkeeping procedures up- on which the preparation for any specific area of work in business can be developed. See dedideut4 Alaffi4 dia9e44, geopea40,4 AT OPEN HOUSE BY J. ROBINSON Bookkeeping Teacher Anyone who receives and spends money should know the procedure to properly record the measurement of these transactions. This ap- plies not only to the presi- dent of a large corporation, but also to the retailer of consumer goods, the farm- er, the doctor and even the housewife. The success of any busi- ness is determined by the interpretation of financial statements. It is the Book- keeper who prepares the financial statements from his recordings of daily transactions. In the small- est business operation, it is humanly impossible to re- member the many details re- quired to operate in today's competitive economy. As a result of the demand PPOrtuni THIS PAGE SPONSORED BY Qrbe Exeter Ximegabbocate SERVING THE COMMUNITY WE LIVE IN