DO YOU WANT A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS CAREER?
This course aims to provide you with the building blocks for a successful career in business planning and operations. Covering topics such as business law, the money market, taxation, business plan writing and mistakes to avoid, it is a solid foundation, developed by highly qualified and experienced professionals.
COURSE STRUCTURE
There are 6 lessons as follows:
- Introduction –
- Business law
- Types of businesses
- Starting a business
- Finance –
- Liquidity
- The money market
- Terminology
- Insurance
- Financial Records –
- Simple Bookkeeping procedures
- cash flow
- Financial Management –
- Taxation
- costing
- budgeting
- investing
- Business Planning – Developing a 12 month business plant.
- Mistakes to avoid –
- Reasons for business failures
- Profitability
- Improving productivity
AIMS
- Define the business community, the types of businesses involved and the interaction which occurs between different businesses.
- Explain the difference between goods and services based businesses.
- Define a range of commonly used business terms.
- Research and analyse business opportunities by studying activities in the business world.
- Assess the feasibility of a business opportunity and allocate resources to this business.
- Carry out the basic procedures of recording and interpreting financial records and statements including the cash book, balance sheet, profit and loss statement.
- Explain liquidity and productivity
- Calculate profit and determine assets
- Calculate the real cost of labour in a business.
- Determine pricing based on costs calculated for providing a particular service or product.
- Develop a budget for a simple business operation.
- Develop a simple 3 year business plan (real or hypothetical).
LEARN THE ESSENTIALS OF BUSINESS OPERATIONS & PLANNING!
This is a great foundation course to develop skills and knowledge in various aspects of business operation and planning. These skills are important factors in ensuring success in business. This course covers vital topics such as finance, financial record keeping, financial management, taxation, business planning, mistakes to avoid, and more.
This course does overlap with Business Studies and Starting a Small Business, so you should choose to do one or another, not ant two of these.