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Start Your Own Business: Financial Viability for a New Venture 

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Overview

Duration

2 weeks

Total fee

900

Mode of learning

Online

Credential

Certificate

Start Your Own Business: Financial Viability for a New Venture
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Highlights

  • Earn a certificate upon completion
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Start Your Own Business: Financial Viability for a New Venture
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Course details

What are the course deliverables?
  • Assessing the financial viability of your venture
  • Pricing your product or service
  • Sales and revenue forecasting
  • Legal entities, their implications and intellectual property
  • Sources of funding and support
More about this course
  • On this two-week course from The Open University, you’ll learn to evaluate the financial viability of your venture using tools to forecast cash flow, assess profitability, and understand a statement of financial position
  • You’ll discover how to judge the impact of changing aspects of your business idea and understand whether this may lead to success or not
  • You’ll also learn the strategies for financial survival with the low levels of resources that most new ventures will have available
  • You’ll also understand why even profitable businesses can fail and how you can effectively plan so this doesn’t happen to you
  • You’ll uncover the different legal formats you can choose for your venture, from sole traders and partnerships to limited companies and social enterprises
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Start Your Own Business: Financial Viability for a New Venture
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Curriculum

Financial perspectives

Welcome

Measuring success

Calculating profit

The cash flow forecast

Regulations, advice and funding

General financial and regulatory issues

Choosing a structure for your business

Further help, advice and funding

Review

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