BTEB HSC Business Management & Technology (HSC BMT) study guide
BTEB HSC Business Management & Technology (HSC BMT) · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
HSC Business Management and Technology (HSC BMT) is a two-year higher secondary programme awarded under the Bangladesh Technical Education Board (BTEB). It runs parallel to the general HSC stream but leans applied: organisation and management, accounting and bookkeeping, business mathematics and statistics, micro and macro economics, marketing and salesmanship, entrepreneurship and business plan development, business communication, and information technology used as a working tool. The BTEB HSC Business Management & Technology (HSC BMT) study guide has 8 sections and about 2,359 words.
01Business Organization and Management
Business organization covers why firms exist, the main legal forms, and how ownership affects liability, control and finance. Be ready to compare sole proprietorship, partnership, private and public limited companies, cooperatives and state enterprises on liability, continuity, capital and decision-making.
300 words, about 2 min02Accounting and Bookkeeping
Accounting records, classifies and summarizes transactions so that owners, creditors and tax authorities can judge performance and position. Learn the accounting equation (assets = liabilities + capital), the double-entry rules, and the accounting cycle: source document, journal, ledger, trial balance, adjusting entries, then the income statement and statement of financial position.
301 words, about 2 min03Business Mathematics and Statistics
Business mathematics tests commercial arithmetic: percentage, ratio and proportion, profit and loss, discount, simple and compound interest, and break-even. Statistics tests collection, organization, presentation and interpretation of data: frequency tables, bar and pie charts, mean, median, mode, range, standard deviation, index numbers and simple probability.
290 words, about 1 min04Economics (Micro and Macro Fundamentals)
Microeconomics explains choices under scarcity: opportunity cost, demand and supply, equilibrium, elasticity, utility, production and cost, and market structures from perfect competition to monopoly. Macroeconomics explains aggregates: gross domestic product, inflation, unemployment, the business cycle, fiscal policy, monetary policy and international trade.
288 words, about 1 min05Marketing and Salesmanship
Marketing is the process of identifying customer needs and satisfying them profitably. Learn the difference between needs and wants, the marketing concept, market segmentation by demographic, geographic, psychographic and behavioural variables, targeting and positioning.
296 words, about 1 min06Entrepreneurship and Business Plan Development
Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity beyond resources currently controlled. Learn the traits and skills of entrepreneurs, the difference between an idea and a viable opportunity, and the steps from opportunity recognition to feasibility study and business plan.
310 words, about 2 min07Business Communication and Applied English
Business communication is the exchange of information to achieve organizational goals. Learn the process: sender, encoding, channel, decoding, receiver, feedback, with noise as interference.
282 words, about 1 min08ICT and Computer Applications in Business
ICT covers the components of a computer system, hardware and software, input, processing, output and storage, operating systems and application software. Learn word processing, spreadsheets and databases.
292 words, about 1 min