This summary contains excerpts from the California Business Education Program Guide for Office and Distributive Occupations (published in 1973 and supplemented with an accounting clerk program in 1975). It begins by outlining the purpose, rationale, and model of this program to provide students with (1) competencies common to both distributive and office occupations, (2) an office core and a distributive core of competencies, and (3) competencies for eight selected entry-level occupations: general office clerk; accounting clerk; clerk-typist; stenographer; salesperson, general; checker-cashier; service station attendant; and waiter-waitress. Other contents include the identification of the needed competencies and performance objectives to meet entry job requirements, sample pages of a competency module, suggestions for a step-by-step procedure to implement the program, explanation of a record-keeping system, model of an administrative system management plan, a system overview, and an article on personalized instruction (a Business Education Fact Sheet is included in the Business Education Management Manual). (YLB)