AP Business with Personal Finance

AP Business with Personal Finance is a new College Board AP course launching in the 2026-2027 academic year, with its first exam in May 2027, and NCPA is among the first schools to offer it. Combining college-level business fundamentals with personal finance, this career-oriented course teaches entrepreneurship, marketing, operations, finance, and personal financial planning through two hands-on projects—a Business Canvas Project and a Financial Advisor Project—focusing on applying knowledge to real business and financial decisions rather than mastering economic models, as noted by instructor Mr. Benelli, who contrasts it with the more theoretical AP Micro- and Macroeconomics.