When you earn your Budgeting badge, you find out how to keep track of your money so that you can use it wisely. Basically, a budget is a plan for using your own money. When you run a business, you need a plan for the overall business, including the money you earn and how you…
Sequence: Cookie Business
Each year a girl can earn one of the Cookie Business badges. These badges help prepare them for cookie sales and determining how to use their cookie money. Daisy’s earn “leafs” instead of badges.
Cookie CEO
When you earn the Financial Literacy badge called Business Owner, you come up with ideas for a business you’d like to run someday, and then do research to see if the business would succeed. Guess what? When you sell Girl Scout Cookies, you’re already running your own business — and you can earn this badge…
Count It Up
Find out what cookies cost. Learn about different kinds of cookies. Set a sales goal. Earned by Daisy Scouts. Download Additional Resources.
Customer Insights
When you earn the Financial Literacy badge called Savvy Shopper, you learn how to use your money wisely and how to tell the difference between what you need and what you want. Your customers want to do the same thing when they buy Girl Scout Cookies. Use what you learn from your customers to make…
Customer Loyalty
When you earn the Financial Literacy badge called Buying Power, you find out how to make wise judgments about how to spend your money — including what companies or products you’ll stick with over the long haul. In this badge, you’ll use what you learned as a consumer to find out how to engage your…