Process

3) Process

a) Business planning

Content

  • Administrative issues
  • Simulation exercise
  • Contents of a business plan
  • Frameworks for financial statements
  • Programme evaluation
  • Learning assessment
  • Summative assessment

b) Business appraisal

Content

  • Enterprise analysis
  • SMME financing
  • Assessment of the viability of industrial projects
  • Fieldwork
  • Assessment of entrepreneurial competencies
  • Impelmentation planning

c) Market analysis

Content

  • Market assessment
  • Market segmentation
  • Market potential and marketing
  • Market research
  • Programme evaluation
  • Assessment

d) Technical analysis

Content

  • Analysing and assesing the technical viability of projects
  • Technology and project management
  • Cost analysis
  • Field work

e) Financial analysis

Content

  • Methods of cost calculation
  • Break-even analysis
  • Financial analysis
  • Investment decision making
  • Practical assigment
  • Programme evaluation
  • Assessment

f) Business advising

Content

  • Business advising approaches and issues
  • Diagnostic enterprise assessment techniques
  • Communication techniques
  • Programme evaluation assessment

g) Business monitoring and rehabilitation

Content

  • Monitoring parametrers and indicators
  • Financial ration analysis
  • Du pont analysis
  • Comarison of actual with planned data
  • Comparison of monitoring data with threshold
  • Analysis of monitoring data
  • Selection of rehabilitation projects
  • Problem analysis
  • A B analysis
  • Break-even analysis
  • Development of rehabilitation objectives
  • Incremental rate of return
  • Risk assessment
  • Change management
  • Programme evaluation
  • Assesment