Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Starting a Business 5: Managing Finances
This course introduced learners to the importance of managing finances when starting a business. The course provided time to plan, share ideas with others and start to document thoughts in a structured business plan.
2 weeks, 2 hours per week
Nigel Lockett
Professor of Enterprise
University of Leeds
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Discuss why forecasting and planning are key skills within any successful business.
- Discuss sales revenue forecast, net profit and the purpose of a cash flow forecast.
- Evaluate the entrepreneur’s business challenge: How can Hannah make her business more profitable?
- Identify business finances in a business plan.
- Assess costs, prices, gross profit and cash flow forecasts.
Syllabus
- The importance of financial information
- An introduction to key financial information: sales revenue forecast; profit and loss forecast; and cash flow forecast
- Analysing and interpreting financial performance
- How to increase profitability
- Marketing a product in terms of price and number of sales
- Key financial forecasts: determining the viability of a business opportunity
- The business plan: business finances
Issued on 10th May 2017
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