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Tawjihi Business Field study plan

Tawjihi Business Field · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Financial Accounting

  • Build a one-page chart of accounts map covering assets, liabilities, equity, revenue and expense classifications, and label each account's normal balance

  • Record 20 mixed business transactions (cash and credit) into journal entries, then post them to T-accounts without referring to a solution key

  • Prepare a trial balance from your posted ledger and identify any imbalance before checking the arithmetic a second time

  • Write out the rules for debits and credits from memory and self-correct against your notes, noting every rule you missed

Your checkpoint

A handwritten or spreadsheet workbook containing 20 journal entries, their posted T-accounts, and a balanced trial balance with a short note on any errors you found and fixed

Week 2

Financial Accounting

  • Construct a full worksheet from a trial balance including adjustments for accrued expenses, prepaid items, depreciation and closing inventory

  • Prepare an income statement, a statement of changes in equity and a classified statement of financial position from that worksheet

  • Calculate and explain gross profit margin, net profit margin, current ratio and inventory turnover using your own figures

  • Diagnose five common adjusting-entry errors and state the correcting entry for each

Your checkpoint

A complete four-statement practice set (worksheet, income statement, equity statement, statement of financial position) for one fictional trading company, with four ratios computed and interpreted in two sentences each

Week 3

Financial Accounting & Commercial Mathematics and Business Statistics

  • Work through depreciation using straight-line, reducing-balance and units-of-production methods on the same asset and compare the yearly charges

  • Reconcile a bank statement against a cash book, listing outstanding cheques, deposits in transit and bank charges, and reach an adjusted cash balance

  • Compute simple and compound interest, present value and future value for at least eight business scenarios including a loan and a savings plan

  • Apply markup, margin, trade discount, cash discount and VAT calculations to ten pricing problems and verify each answer by reversing the calculation

Your checkpoint

A solutions sheet with eight time-value-of-money problems, ten pricing and discount problems, one completed bank reconciliation, and a three-method depreciation comparison table, all with worked steps

Week 4

Principles of Economics (Microeconomics and Macroeconomics) & Commercial Mathematics and Business Statistics

  • Draw and label supply and demand curves and predict the effect of six specified market changes on equilibrium price and quantity

  • Calculate and interpret price elasticity of demand, income elasticity and cross elasticity for given data sets, and classify each good accordingly

  • Distinguish fixed, variable, total, average and marginal cost using a cost table, and identify the profit-maximising output level

  • Compute and interpret mean, median, mode, range and standard deviation for a small business data set, and choose the appropriate measure for a stated purpose

  • Explain the difference between nominal and real GDP and calculate a simple GDP deflator or price index

Your checkpoint

A one-page economics and statistics summary sheet with six correctly labelled curve-shift diagrams, one completed elasticity table, one cost-and-profit table, and one descriptive statistics table with a written interpretation of each

Week 5

Business Administration and Management & Marketing and Sales

  • Compare the four functions of management (planning, organising, leading, controlling) and give one concrete business example of each

  • Build a simple SWOT analysis and a basic organisational chart for a small firm, and justify each structural choice in one sentence

  • Outline the steps of a market segmentation, targeting and positioning process for a chosen product, naming the segment variables used

  • Design a marketing mix (product, price, place, promotion) for that product and defend each element against a stated competitor

  • Distinguish macroeconomics from microeconomics by classifying ten news-style statements into the correct category and naming the policy tool involved

Your checkpoint

A two-page mini marketing and management brief for one fictional small business containing a SWOT table, an organisational chart, a defined target segment, a full marketing mix, and a labelled list of ten statements classified as micro or macro

Week 6

Commercial Law and Business Ethics & Banking and Financial Services

  • Distinguish the essential elements of a valid contract and apply them to five short scenarios, stating whether a contract exists and why

  • Identify the rights and obligations of parties in sale, agency and employment relationships, and name the remedy available when a party breaches

  • Explain the main types of negotiable instruments and describe the endorsement and payment process for a cheque

  • Compare current, savings and deposit accounts, and compute the interest earned on a savings balance over one year at a stated rate

  • Describe the purpose and basic mechanics of letters of credit, bank guarantees and commercial loans, and match each to a suitable business situation

  • Apply a simple ethical decision framework to two short business dilemmas and justify the recommended action

Your checkpoint

A case file of five short contract and banking scenarios, each with a written ruling, the legal or banking principle applied, and the remedy or product recommended, plus two ethics responses of at least 100 words each

Week 7

Business Information Technology and Office Applications & Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management & Arabic Language (Business Context)

  • Build a spreadsheet that records ten transactions, totals them with formulas, computes three ratios and produces a simple chart without hard-coding any totals

  • Use word-processing features to produce a formatted one-page business letter and a memo with headings, a table and a footer

  • Write a one-page business plan outline for a small venture covering the idea, target customer, cost structure, pricing and break-even estimate

  • Calculate the break-even point in units and in revenue for that venture and state the margin of safety for a projected sales level

  • Draft a formal Arabic business letter and a short Arabic summary of a business report, using correct commercial terminology and punctuation

Your checkpoint

A single digital portfolio file containing one working spreadsheet with formulas and a chart, one formatted letter and memo, a one-page business plan with break-even calculations, and one Arabic business letter with a short Arabic report summary

Week 8

Financial Accounting & Principles of Economics (Microeconomics and Macroeconomics) & Business Administration and Management & Marketing and Sales & Commercial Mathematics and Business Statistics & Commercial Law and Business Ethics & Banking and Financial Services & Business Information Technology and Office Applications & Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management & Arabic Language (Business Context)

  • Complete two full timed mock exams under exam conditions and score each domain separately to expose weak areas

  • Re-derive from memory the key formulas for ratios, interest, break-even, elasticity and descriptive statistics, and correct any formula you get wrong

  • Revisit your lowest-scoring domain and solve fifteen targeted practice items in it until you reach consistent accuracy

  • Summarise each of the ten domains on a single revision card containing only the facts, formulas and definitions you repeatedly forgot

  • Review your error log from weeks 1 to 7 and confirm that every recurring mistake has been resolved or flagged for final review

Your checkpoint

Two scored mock exams with a domain-by-domain score table, a corrected formula sheet, ten revision cards, and a final error log showing the status of every recurring mistake

Week 9

Financial Accounting

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Your checkpoint

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Milestones

Week 2: You can produce a balanced trial balance and a full set of financial statements from raw transactions without looking at a model answer, and you can name the normal balance of any account on request

Week 4: You score at least 70% on a self-made 30-item test covering financial accounting, commercial mathematics and introductory economics, with no formula sheet in front of you

Week 6: You can rule correctly on five contract scenarios and compute savings interest and break-even figures accurately, and your two ethics responses each reach 100 words with a stated principle

Week 7: Your digital portfolio is complete and self-contained: the spreadsheet recalculates correctly when an input is changed, and the Arabic letter and summary use correct commercial terminology

Week 8: Both timed mock exams are finished within the time limit, every domain has a recorded score, and no recurring error from weeks 1 to 7 remains unexplained