SBA 808 - How to Start and Manage Your Own Small Business

1.0 Continuing Education Units (CEU). This course is not for Credit(s).

This course is designed to help the student develop strategies to examine basic management issues and concerns in forming a business enterprise. The student will explore the advantages and disadvantages of selfemployment, available government resources, types of businesses and markets, and estimating financial needs, selling goods, and technology for finance. Topics to be covered include: business decisions, resources, legal considerations, finances, marketing and sales, employees, technology, balance sheets, and taxes.

Course Objectives:

1. identify the major business considerations in forming a business enterprise,
2. discuss the pros and cons of going into business,
3. discuss various financial and accounting concerns,
4. describe how to market and sell the product, and
5. review the technology needs of a modem business.