This Program explains how to put business ideas into practice, how to develop a business, and how to successfully manage and organise its operations.
The Program starts from basic principles, explaining how ideas for businesses can be made in to reality. It covers the registering and establishment of a business, defining and preparing a business plan, sources of finance and then managing finances carefully, choosing a business location, renting premises, furnishing and equipping premises and offices, ordering goods/materials (purchasing and stores), selling, accounting, employing staff, business documentation, and more. The Program gives valuable practical advice from successful business owners, supervisors and managers with vast experience of running profitable businesses, and lots of practical advice on how to avoid pitfalls and problems that can harm new and developing businesses.
Course Content
Module 1 - Entrepreneurship: The First Steps in Business
Module 2 - Ownership of Businesses
Module 3 - Location of Businesses
Module 4 - Buying or Taking Over an Existing Business
Module 5 - Furnishing and Equipping the Premises
Module 6 - Ordering and Storing Stock (Inventory) Items
Module 7 - Principles of Selling
Module 8 - The Human Resource
Module 9 - Financial Matters
Module 10 - Business Documents and Bank Accounts
Module 11 - Recording transactions: Principles of Bookkeeping & Accounting
Module 12 - Principles of Economics