Home Business
This series offers guidance on starting and managing a home-based business. It provides an overview of the options available in creating a home-based business and how to evaluate these options. Topics related to financing are examined, including writing a business plan and preparing financial statements, evaluating financing options, planning for personal expenses, and preparing for the loan application process. Office management considerations are covered, including equipment and insurance, hiring others, keeping the books and other tax considerations, and maintaining a professional image.
This series is for anyone who is interested in learning more about starting and managing a home-based business. This online course contains 4 lessons and should take approximately 20 hours to complete.
Choosing a Business
This course provides an overview of the options in creating a new business from home, buying a franchise, buying an existing business, or joining a partnership and teaches you how to select a potential business to start from home, create a business concept, decide upon a franchise opportunity, evaluate opportunities to buy or join existing businesses, choose whether to create a business alone or as a partnership, and decide whether to incorporate a home business.
Raising Financing
This course explains how to create a business plan and raise the money to support the plan and teaches you how to write a business plan, prepare financial statements as supporting documentation, plan for personal expenses while starting a business, evaluate financing options, decide whether to use personal resources for financing, and prepare for the loan application process.
Office Management
This course explains how to set up and manage an office at home and teaches you how to create an office in the home, set up phone lines and office equipment, manage advertising and marketing, create invoices for payments, hire assistants, and set up proper insurance.
Managing Your Business
This course explains how to run a home business, including such topics as keeping books and dealing with taxes and teaches you how to keep a home business's books, pay the right taxes on a home business, use tax write-offs and deductions, separate personal responsibilities from business activities, and create a professional image.