MONEY MATTERS 1: Cash transactions & orders

 For use in VM & VPC Numeracy, vocational education, retail, hospitality, small business, applied numeracy/maths and other programs, as suited to your learning programs and cohorts. 

- Overview -

A new resource kit that has 40 applied activities requiring students to:

• calculate transaction amounts, totals and running totals
• apply GST, discounts, cash rounding and other transaction requirements as needed
• calculate change amounts and make change
• add and record starting cash floats, cash at end and balancing amounts
• manage and take orders and prepare order slips from menus and price lists
• manage and take orders and prepare order slips face-to-face and over the phone
• prepare order summaries and balance cash transactions
• maintain cash security; and
• other applied tasks related to order taking and processing and working with cash.

- Why? -

This kit has been created to address 4 key work-related skills areas reported as being in decline in the digital age.

1. Quick, confident and accurate mental arithmetic (including cross-checking digital calculations).
2. Accurate and efficient skills in using notes and coins to confidently estimate and make change.
3. Legible and efficient handwriting skills (including recording numbers and abbreviations).
4. Accurate data entry, data transferring and data analysis (including finding mistakes, especially numerical errors).

There are many other skills that are addressed including calculating GST, calculating discounts, applying cash rounding, communicating with customers and clients, communicating with supervisors, completing appropriate admin information, maintaining cash security, understanding different retail and hospitality operations and many more.

  - Master license only = $165 GST inc. -

• PDF file of the 94 page resource: Money Matters 1: Cash transactions and orders.
• PDF file of the numerical solutions for the specific transactions as listed in each activity.
• PDF file with the pre-calculated Score Record and suggested scoring keys for this.
• PDF file of pro-formas, large print versions of the menus and price lists, and blanks of start and end cash tables, order slips and other reproducibles.

- Master license pack = $247.50 GST inc. -

• All master files as above.
• Printed copy of the book.
• Money pack including: 4  student money sets, a teacher money set and 5 coin trays.

Printed copies of the 94 page book are also available priced at $33 GST inc.; with discounts for larger orders. See order form.

See the draft sample and teacher support materials below for more information.