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Start Your Own Business Course Outline

Start Your Own Business Module 1
Entrepreneurial Skills

• The World of Small Business
• Steps to Home Business Success
• Product, Manpower, and Capital Options
• Starting and Managing a Business from Your Home
• Advantages and Disadvantages of a Home-Based Business
• Choosing your Form of Business Organization
• Recordkeeping, Insurance, and Legal Issues
• Balance Sheets, Profit and Loss Statements, Cash Flow Statement
• Time and Stress Management
• Personal Qualities Needed for Success in Business

Start Your Own Business Module 2
Becoming an Entrepreneur

• About Entrepreneurs
• Planning for the Business
• Forms of Ownerships
• The Business Plan
• Marketing the Business
• Finding Your Target Market
• Preparing the Marketing Plan
• Hiring, Training, and Compensating Employees
• Preparing Financial Statements

Start Your Own Business Module 3
The Basics of Business for an Entrepreneur

• The Basics of Economics
• Measures of Economic Activity
• The Business Cycle
• International Business Basics
• Business Behavior Basics
• Basic Management Functions
• Consumer Information, Skills, Rights, and Responsibilities
• Basic Finance

Start Your Own Business Module 4
Entrepreneur: Business Law Basics

• The Basics of Law
• Business Ethics
• Civil, International, and Other Classifications of Law
• The Legal System
• The Basics of Contractual and Property Law
• Bailments and Intellectual Property
• The Basics of Employment Law
• Basic Forms of Business Organization
• The Basics of Debt

Start Your Own Business Module 5
Managerial Accounting

• The Income Statement and Balance Sheet
• Budgeting and Cash Budgets
• Cost, Price and Volume Analysis
• Nature of Costs
• Breakeven Analysis and Analyzing Decisions
• Manufacturing Cost Accounting
• Job-Order and Process Costing
• Evaluation and Control
• Profitability and Market Value
• Liquidity and Debt
• Asset Management
• The Time Value of Money


We take great pride in providing you with the most up-to-date textbooks and equipment. One or more of the above-mentioned subjects may, therefore, change if updating becomes necessary during the course of your studies. The order in which the material is presented may vary.

Start Your Own Business Courses
I have gained knowledge of human resources, laws and regulations, and the risks that come with a business. I also liked the real-life situations that were shared in the reading. — T.C. - Wisconsin
Training to Start Your Own Business
It definitely gave me more knowledge of managing a business. — D.K. - Iowa
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