Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship
MGT 310 (Offering: 2003)

Description

This course is aimed at providing students with an appreciation of entrepreneurial and managerial skills necessary to create and manage a small business. These skills include assessing personal factors leading to business success and evaluating the feasibility of business ideas. The course also includes practical skills in preparing business plans for various funding schemes and planning business growth. Case studies from business enterprises will be considered and the realities of finding venture capital for business opportunities demonstrated. After an introductory overview of small business in Australia and its contribution to economic development, the course is presented in three parts. The first part deals with entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial process, the second part covers feasibility and planning stages of the small business and the final part concludes the course with operational considerations in achieving business success.

Major(s)/Minors(s): Management

Usual Semester of offer: Semester 1

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