The congruency between Alberta senior high school recordkeeping, bookkeeping, and accounting curricula and the entry-level skills of employees of business was examined. The investigation was a replication of one conducted by West (1973) in New York City and had very similar findings. Questionnaires that were developed from the job activities list…

The findings of a literature review of business education in Great Britain, the United States, and Canada were as follows: business education will be in greater demand in the high school and it will be extended downward into the elementary school and upward into the postsecondary institutes, especially in the areas of keyboarding and computer…