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Business, Finance & Economics

Apply mathematics to investment analysis, forecasting, risk management, financial modelling, and economic decision-making. This is what a Grade 10 student actually learns on the CMP Finance pathway.

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Why mathematics belongs in finance

Markets, budgets, and business decisions all run on numbers. Students learn to read financial data the way an analyst or economist does.

From topic to trading floor

Statistics, growth rates, and probability become tools for corporate performance, market analysis, credit risk, and forecasting - not abstract exercises.

Portfolio, not just tests

Each term ends with a portfolio task, a short analyst-style report where the student uses the mathematics to justify a real business or investment decision.

What students learn: Grade 10 Business, Finance & Economics Course Planner

Four terms, each anchored to a real area of business and financial practice. Four sample topics from every term are shown below.

Term 1

Corporate Performance, Markets & Financial Data

Assessment Task 1

Sample topics

  • Indicators of Corporate Health
  • Macroeconomic Metrics: GDP and Inflation
  • Measuring Market Size
  • Growth Rates and Yields
Market insight: Differentiate between a population (e.g. all companies in a market index) and a sample (e.g. selected technology companies) when tracking economic variables.

Term 2

Consumer Behavior, Inflation & Risk Assessment

Assessment Task 2

Sample topics

  • History and Mechanics of Inflation
  • Consumer Price Indexes
  • Types of Market Risk
  • Currency Devaluation
Market insight: Define independent and mutually exclusive economic events.

Term 3

Credit Risk, Financial Screening & Lending Matrices

Assessment Task 3

Sample topics

  • Credit-Screening Principles
  • Early Default Detection
  • Financial Verification Benchmarks
  • Lending Guidelines
Market insight: Organize loan applicants into a two-way table comparing screening decisions with actual repayment outcomes.

Term 4

Market Volatility, Portfolio Risk & Asset Forecasting

Year-End Milestone Assessment

Sample topics

  • Share-Price Basics
  • Market Indexes
  • Macroeconomic Valuation Factors
  • Price-to-Earnings Distribution Bands
Market insight: Use percentiles, quartiles and IQR to compare a company's current valuation with its historical distribution.