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

1 Continuing Education Unit (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 self-employment, 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:

Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:

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