My Business Venture – 10% of Final Mark
BTT 1O1 Final Culminating Task
Welcome to the Dragon’s Den…Congratulations on your new business venture!
We at Dragons’ Den, understand you would like the “Dragons” to invest in your new business. You have been invited to make a sales pitch to us in the hopes that
we will invest $10, 000 in your company. We request that you arrive with the following items on your scheduled presentation day:
A. Use Microsoft Word to type up a business letter (full block style)and to create your own company letterhead:
1. Create your letterhead first then type up business letter on it.
2. Addressed the letter to “The Dragons”, Dragons’ Den, CBC Television, Audience Relations, CBC, P.O. Box 500 Station A, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5W
1E6
3. The letter must explain why ‘The Dragons” should invest in your company.
4. The letterhead must show your company’s name, and all of your company’s contact information
B. Use Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT) to create a slideshow presentation consisting of:
1. What your company is all about. Give details of products. Outline who you’re selling to (target market) and why they would be willing to purchase your
products. The PPT should be professional, aesthetically pleasing, have animation and slide transitions.
2. Use MS Publisher to create a newspaper advertisement for your company’s product. The ad should have picture of at least one of your products,
slogan, and look realistic.
3. Use MS Publisher’s formatting features to create a company information brochure (3 panel style) – that would be geared to your customers. It should
be informative and highlight all the great details about the products your company offers.
4. Use Microsoft Excel to create a spreadsheet of your Annual Profit for Jan to Dec 2014 broken down by different products. Use appropriate functions
and/or formulae to show the Total, Average, Maximum and Minimum profits for each month and a grand total profit for all products over the
twelve month period. Then create a professional looking bar chart to show the, Total Profit for each of the twelve months.
* You will create a presentation in the form of a slideshow to the “Dragons”.
* You will be evaluated on your delivery and the contents of the slideshow.
* To insert copies of the magazine ad and brochure in PowerPoint, save each as a .jpg file.
* To insert copies of the spreadsheet and chart, print the excel screens and then paste them into PowerPoint.
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5. Use Microsoft Access to do the following tasks:
1. TABLE: Create a Table named “MajorCustomers” with the following field names.
*(Delete the Access-generated ID field)
FirstName
LastName
CompanyName
Age
Town
*(when creating the records, use the town YOU live in at least three times)
PhoneNumber
SalestoDate
Client Number **this will be your Primary Key**
2. RECORDS: Make up information for ten of your major customers and populate all fields accordingly.
3. PRIMARY KEY – Make the Client Number field your primary key.
4. QUERY: Create a Query that sorts the table by SalestoDate (ascending order) and then filters the table to ONLY show
customers from the town YOU live in. Save the query as LocalCustomersQ
5. REPORT: Using the query you created above to create a report. Edit the name of the report to be “Local Customers Report”.
Save report as LocalCustomersR.
C. A PowerPoint presentation with a screen-shots of all documents. All of the items in the following order:
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A Title Page – with Company Name, Your name, Teacher’s name, and due date
Company information, Products, Target Market slides
Business Letter on Letterhead
Magazine Advertisement
Company Brochure
Access report (Customer Table, Query and Report)
Excel Spreadsheet page
Excel Bar Chart
Mrs Meehan-Thompson
BTT1O1 Final CPT
Name: __________________________________
Evaluation Rubric: My Business Venture – 10% of Final Mark
Thinking
-magazine advertisement
-company brochure
/20
Application
-database report
-excel SS and chart
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
Limited effectiveness with
respect to generating ideas,
planning, and formulating
the overall strategy for the
end product.
Some effectiveness with
respect to generating ideas,
planning, and formulating
the overall strategy for the
end product.
Limited effectiveness with
respect software
application documents.
A few documents are
missing.
Some effectiveness with
respect to all the software
application documents.
All documents are present.
Considerable effectiveness
with respect to generating
ideas, planning, and
formulating the overall
strategy for the end
product.
Considerable effectiveness
with respect to all the
software application
documents.
All documents are present.
Limited degree of
effectiveness with respect
to the Business Letter and
PowerPoint presentation.
Some degree of
effectiveness with respect
to the Business Letter and
PowerPoint presentation.
Considerable degree of
effectiveness with respect
to the Business Letter and
PowerPoint presentation.
High degree of
effectiveness with respect
to generating ideas,
planning, and formulating
the overall strategy for the
end product.
High degree of
effectiveness with respect
to all the software
application documents.
All documents are present
and student went above
and beyond the
expectations.
High degree of
effectiveness with respect
to the Business Letter and
PowerPoint presentation.
Student went above and
beyond expectations.
Limited degree of
effectiveness with respect
to software program usage
and overall knowledge of
concepts/theory.
Some degree of
effectiveness with respect
to software program usage
and overall knowledge of
concepts/theory.
Considerable degree of
effectiveness with respect
to software program usage
and overall knowledge of
concepts/theory.
/20
Communication
-business description
*about, products & target
-business letter
-PP communication
/20
Knowledge
-use of PP features &
format
/20
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BTT1O1 Final CPT
High degree of
effectiveness with respect
to software program usage
and overall knowledge of
concepts/theory.
Total
/80