Small Business Management

Course Description:

This course is designed to provide the student with as understanding of the role of the entrepreneur and small business management as well as to provide the student with a flexible background that will enable him/her to make required career shifts and meet the demands of a constantly changing marketplace. Entrepreneurs see the world as an opportunity and create a product/service to meet it, solve it, or improve it. In the process, they generate new businesses, new jobs, or even new industries - and, therefore, strengthen the economy. As a result, entrepreneurs are having a major impact on the future economic growth of the United States and the world.

Course Objectives:

Entrepreneurs and small business management education prepares students to carry out the entrepreneurial process and experience the entrepreneurial spirit.

Develop an innovative idea and write a business plan.
Understand production, marketing, finance, human resources, global communication, and social, environmental, and legal issues.
Develop and utilize communication skills, initiative, creativity, flexibility, and problem solving techniques.

Material/Texts:

Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management, Earl C. Meyer, Ph.D. and Kathleen R. Allen, Ph.D., Glencoe/Mcgraw-Hill, 2000.
A two pocket folder and single subject notebook (or combination thereof) of your choice

Grading:

Activities, Situations, and text exercises -- 25 points each
Internet Assignments -- 30 points each
Projects -- 50 points each
Tests -- 100 points each
Final Project (Business Plan) -- 200 points

Attendance Policy:

It is recommended that you attend all class sessions. If you are absent, you should have a classmate take notes for you on any material covered; upon your return to class, you should with the teacher regarding makeup work. Every effort should be made to complete work missed within two days of your return to school.

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