AP Business with Personal Finance

What Students Learn

Students examine how businesses identify needs and make operating decisions, alongside personal saving and borrowing and budgeting and investing. Business cases and an entrepreneurial project develop interpretation of financial information and comparison of alternatives to support decisions with evidence.

Course Units

The units and learning focuses below follow the official AP course framework.

Unit 1: Businesses, competition, and new ideas

Unit 2: Marketing

Unit 3, Part 1: Personal saving and borrowing

Unit 3, Part 2: Business finance and accounting

Unit 4: Management and strategy

Unit 5: Personal goals, budgeting, and investing

AP Assessment

The digital AP exam primarily assesses Units 1–4. It includes 60 multiple-choice questions in 70 minutes, worth 60%. One Business Canvas Project validation question takes 25 minutes and is worth 15%, requiring students to explain their entrepreneurial project. Three further free-response questions take 65 minutes and are worth 25%, covering personal finance and business concept application, followed by a justified business decision.

References (2026–2027): College Board course framework; assessment information