These competencies and objectives are designed to assist business educators with the implementation of updated competency-based courses in administrative systems, business management, and information systems programs. Business education courses are arranged alphabetically. Information for each course includes the course title, course number, suggested grade levels, prerequisites, and a course description. Each course is divided into essential skills areas. Each competency is matched with one or more performance objectives. The courses are accounting; accounting computer applications; applied business economics; applied business law; business artificial intelligence; business computer applications; business and computer careers; business education for the handicapped; business management; business supervision and management; clerical accounting I, II; computer concepts; data processing I, II; employment seminar; financial management seminar; information/word processing; introduction to business; keyboarding; keyboarding applications; legal office procedures; management information systems; medical office procedures; office assistant; office services I, II, III; office specialist I, II; office systems; recordkeeping; secretarial administration I, II; and shorthand. Appendixes include the competencies and performance objectives for communication skills, employability skills and leadership development, and business mathematics. (YLB)