Business Fundamentals - Entrepreneurship

Program Overview

Fanshawe's Business Fundamentals - Entrepreneurship program equips aspiring entrepreneurs with the knowledge and skills to start and manage their own small businesses. Through hands-on experience and comprehensive business plan development, graduates gain insights into marketing, finance, and market research. The program also supports graduates in pursuing further entrepreneurial ventures through the LEAP Junction program.

Program Outline

Outline:

Your Learning Experience:

• Business Fundamentals - Entrepreneurship is a one-year Ontario College Certificate program.
• This customized entrepreneur program is designed specifically for the novice business starter and will provide students with the knowledge required to plan, start and manage their own small business.
• This entrepreneur program also assists students in acquiring the skills for long-term management of the business and their development as entrepreneurs.
• Under the supervision of a faculty advisor, students will undergo a unique opportunity to prepare a comprehensive business plan intended to help students launch their own business upon graduation.

Career Information:

• Fanshawe's Business Fundamentals - Entrepreneurship program provides graduates with powerful insight into the challenges and rewards of entrepreneurship.
• Through the knowledge attained studying various aspects of marketing, finance, market research and hands-on experience with Quickbooks, graduates will be able to jump start their own small businesses.
• This program also sets graduates up to pursue a LEAP Junction program at Fanshawe that supports young entrepreneurs with launching their companies.

Learning Outcomes:

The graduate has reliably demonstrated the ability to: identify factors that have an impact on an organization’s business opportunities. explain the impact of corporate sustainability, corporate social responsibility and ethics on an organization’s business initiatives. use current technologies to support an organization's business initiatives. apply basic research skills to support business decision making. perform basic accounting procedures and financial calculations to support the operations of an organization. describe marketing and sales concepts used to support the operations of an organization. develop strategies for ongoing personal and professional development to enhance work performance. outline the functional areas of a business and their inter-relationships. create a business plan that meets the comprehensive information requirements of the business and its prospective financiers and partners. apply credit acquisition and management techniques appropriate to small business enterprises. evaluate the business environment to understand the risks and opportunities specific to business ownership.

Courses:

Level 1

• COMP-1332 Information Management

Careers:

• Small Business Owner