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Entrepreneurial Finance - Master the key skills to get your business idea up and running successfully
The objective of this workshop is to enable promoters to combine product and technical ideas with the necessary business expertise to get the idea off the starting blocks. Many would be entrepreneurs come from a technical or other non business background, and lack the skill set to develop their ideas into a clear plan that can be powerfully persuasive for funders and other backers
Next Date: 16 Feb 2010 - 16 Feb 2010
Duration: 1 Day
Course Code: EF1
Venue: Europa Academy,
Price: €195
Course Information
It is increasingly imperative to be able to develop a business plan that will stand up to rigorous analysis and questioning. After this workshop participants will be able to present their ideas in a coherent way, with clear financial projections based on well founded assumptions. This will give them a huge advantage in accessing agency and commercial equity funding.
Workshop content:
- Ø Why do you need a financial plan? The benefits for your business
- Ø How to put together a plan - first step is to know who you are presenting to, and why you are preparing the plan
- Ø Prepare a professional standard business plan based on realistic and rigorous assumptions - the systematic steps
- Ø Best practise in effective planning and budgeting - key dos and don'ts
- Ø Raising Money - sources of finance, how they operate and associated risks and rewards
- Ø Presenting the plan well to ensure relevance to target audience - help secure funding from grant bodies, investors and banks
- Ø Plan follow up - no point planning without a follow up control system. How to report performance as cost effectively as possible
- Ø Implementing and keeping to the plan
- Ø Planning ahead medium term Management Practicalities for the small business - establishing cost effective financial systems to ensure that your business can grow and develop
Duration 1 day
Fee €195 (limited offer)
Call me today for further details, Peter Finnegan, Business Development Manager on 01 8839212 or 087 2453387