SS3 Commerce Lessons Topics
1st term
- 1. Meaning of and need for consumer protection
- 2. Consumer right and consumption.
- 3. Instrument/agencies for consumer protection e.g rent tribunal, manufacturers association of Nigeria (SON), Professional bodies e.g KAN, ANAN, NBA, NUT e.t.c
- 4. Essential business documents; letter of inquiry, quotation catalogue, order.
- 5. Essential business documents; letter of inquiry, quotation catalogue, order.
- 6. Invoice, receipt, delivery notes, statement of account, debit note, credit note, etc
- 7. Trade terms and abbreviations; meaning of trade terms – FOB, FOR, CWO, EXSHIP, COD, CIF, FAS.
- 8. Cash, credit, or payment in arrears etc Means of payments—legal tender e.g coins, bank notes.
- 9. Terms of trade/ sales through bank e.g cheque, western union, money gram, electronic money transfer, transfer credit card.
- 10. Standing order and bank draft
- 11. Means of payment through post office, stamps, money order, postal order, promissory note.
- 12. Meaning, reasons, advantages and disadvantages of commercialization
- 13. Meaning, reasons, advantages and disadvantages of privatization
- 14. Meaning, reasons, advantages and disadvantages of deregulation.
- 15. Meaning, reasons, advantages and disadvantages of nationalization
- 16. Capital markets
- 17. The historical development; 1946 (development loan stock first issue) 1960; Lagos stock exchange act- 1962, capital issue committee, 1979- capital issue commission.
- 18. The 1979 securities and exchange commission decree no. 71. 1985; second tier securities market (SSM) 1999 investment and securities act.
- 19. Stock exchange; meaning and functions, importance, organizational set-up, membership of the stock exchange, procedure of transaction at the stock exchange.
- 20. Securities; meaning, types, shares, stocks, bonds, gilt-edged and debentures.
- 21. Capital market; method of raising fund, offer for sale, offer/subscription, right issue, private placement.
- 22. Speculation; meaning, speculators, bull, bear and stage.
- 23. Bodies that can access the capital market, public companies, government.
- 24. Second tier security market, meaning, advantages to companies, advantages to the investing public.
- 25. Second tier security market; operating regulation, primary and secondary market, first tier and second tier
2nd term
- 1. ECOWAS, meaning, history, and member countries.
- 2. Objectives, Organs, Achievements, problems of ECOWAS
- 3. The history, Member countries, Objectives, and achievements, Problems of the Niger basin commission
- 4. Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC): History, Member countries, Objectives
- 5. Mano river basin commission: History, Member countries, Objectives.
- 6. Achievements and problems of the Mano River Basin Commission (MRBC):