Business and Management

Entrepreneurial opportunities exist, even during hard times, for those with a proper understanding of agricultural marketing. Very few non-rural businesses are presented with the continuing changes and variations that confront a rural business. The impact of climate means the rural manager has to continually consider, evaluate, assess (and reassess) often on...

There are 8 lessons in this course: Establishment Procedures The Business World Ways to Begin a Business Buying or Starting Up New Market, Location, Regulations Risks; emotional, financial Common Reasons for Business Failure Developing a 12 Month Plan Creating a Business Plan Motivation, Planning, Customers, Competitors, Promotion, Sales and Pricing, Employees,...

For any company or organisation to have success financially it must have a desirable product. This product must be of need to a large proportion of the general public. Advertising, using all available media outlets, should get the message across. But the most important link after the manufacturing and advertising (marketing)...

Bookkeeping is a fantastic career with flexible career paths and opportunities Do you want a bookkeeping career?Bookkeeping is an opportunity to earn a reasonable salary Bookkeeping skills are constantly in demand Bookkeeping skills will enable you to work in any industry As a bookkeeper you will have all of those choices....

LEADERS ARE NOT BORN THEY ARE TAUGHT Leadership skills are needed in all facets of our society: business, politics, religion, youth services, and leisure industries, to mention only some. This new course is relevant to all of those areas, developing your understanding of, and capacity to apply leadership skills. This course is highly...

One of the biggest challenges for any business is Getting a Product Known! Businesses flourish or fail according to awareness. You can be providing the greatest service or product known to mankind; but if no one knows about it, you can still fail miserably in business This course shows you how to...

There are 12 lessons in this course: Trading firms and accounting rules Physical Inventory System Perpetual Inventory System Inventory Valuation Accounting for bad and doubtful debts Classified Profit and Loss Statements for trading firms Control Accounts Budgeting for Trading Firms Statement of Cash Flows Alternatives in Accounting Financial Analysis and Interpretation...

Entrepreneurs from all around the world are continually starting up new businesses. Some succeede, others fail. How do they decide what business to operate? How can you learn about the business opportunities available to you? What kind of goals should be set for a new business? When considering becoming an entrepreneur, it is...

Lesson Structure There are 8 lessons in this course: Determining If a Consultancy Practice is for You Planning a Consultancy Practice: Part 1 Planning a Consultancy Practice: Part 2 Knowing What to Charge Setting Up Your Consulting Practice Keeping Accounts and Records How to Generate Business & Keep It Maintaining Your Consultancy...

Businesses fail because they don't plan. There are certain things that should always be planned for; and systematically proven ways to plan. Develop a better capacity to plan, and in turn, develop a better capacity to manage business. This course can make an enormous difference. Learn how to get a clear...

There are endless options of how a product or service can be marketed. These different ways of marketing are sometimes put into categories, or classifications, which share common features (ie. "marketing systems”). Such classifications might be based upon the way in which one aspect of the marketing process is handled, or it...

This is an example of what you will do in the course: Undertake simple and relevant practical tasks. Submit written assignments at the completion of each lesson. Prepare 72 plant review worksheets. Research and analyse the operation of garden centres and nurseries. You can commence the course when it suits you and work through it at...

There are two parts to this course: Part 1: A comprehensive introductory course focusing on the management and development or redevelopment of recreation facilities. Subjects cover the nature of recreation and fitness facilities, legal requirements during construction, the management of minor construction projects and evaluating fitness and recreation equipment. The course is...

Develop management policy, procedural, and planning aspects of a recreation oriented service or facility. This course covers policy development and management, meeting operational procedures, planning process management, meeting and conference management as well as supervising reports as well as touching on staffing issues. Lesson Structure There are 8 lessons in this course: Development...

Students are assumed to have some broad experience or knowledge in Leisure Facility Management (Managing daily use is covered in far more detail in the first course, but not in this one). There are two parts to this course: Part 1: This course relates to the management and maintenance of both indoor...

Learn to be a Wedding Planner with this Comprehensive New Course A wedding planner will have a range of tasks from hiring the band, talking to the photographer, finding a caterer, getting low prices for things and above all be VERY well organised. They are normally self employed businessmen or women; who...

AS Business Studies Why choose Business Studies? The course has been designed to provide students with an understanding of the following: how businesses work; how the world around them affects decision-making within a business; what leads to change and how businesses respond to these issues; and the range of perspectives that can be...

The objectives of the course are to understand the need for customer care skills, identify strengths and weaknesses in your firms care approach, plan a caring approach, develop personal customer care skills – face to face, develop personal customer care skills – on the phone, understand how to deal effectively with...

Helping others to help themselves, assisting them with their communication and relationships; working with people to develop their powers of negotiating, achieving resolutions where everyone wins, are just a few examples of what a skilled and practiced mediator can help their clients achieve. In this course you will learn how to...

Distance Education Course for Small Business Managers Combine these skills and discover opportunities for employment and business in small business 900 hour, self paced practical course with options to upgrade to a diploma This is a flexible, relevant course for those wanting to train to move into supervisory or managerial positions. ....for Entrepreneurs,...