Study at home learning to start your own business.
If you want to work for yourself, our tutor supported open distance learning Start Your Own Business course provides the necessary knowledge, skills and qualification without disrupting your current lifestyle.
The DCA Home Learning Start Your Own Business course provides training in the core skills needed to embark on a rewarding career by starting your own business. The DCA supported self-study Start Your Own Business course is specially designed, allowing you to learn the skills of Starting Your Own Business through flexible and cost-effective home study at your own time and pace.
With the DCA Home Learning Start Your Own Business course, online study resources and a personal tutor are available to guide you throughout the course, and your Student Advisor is a Freephone call away. What's more, because the distance learning Start Your Own Business course is so comprehensive, no prior knowledge or skills are required. The DCA Start Your Own Business course provides an entry level diploma as proof our your competence and skills.
If you'd like to earn more money and enjoy working for yourself, the DCA home study course is the ideal distance learning training course for you.
Entrepreneurial Skills:
• What makes an entrepreneur tick?
• Home business success
• Types of available small businesses
• Advantages and disadvantages of small businesses
• Record keeping and insurance
• Understanding basic finance
• Managing time and stress
• Personal qualities of the successful entrepreneur
• Useful information for the entrepreneur
The Entrepreneurial Spirit:
• The entrepreneurial personality
• Risk management
• The small firm and the UK economy
• Small firm volatility
• Growth firms and job creation
• Issues in business start-up
• Pre-start planning and preparation
• Buy-outs and buy-ins
• Business creation in a rural context
• Ethic minority entrepreneurship
• Successful entrepreneurial strategies
• Empowering the community
• Assessing markets and finances
Finance, Innovation and E-business: Issues and debt finance
• The role of security
• Raising bank finance
• Technology-based start-ups
• The nature of venture capital
• The investment process
• Innovation and firm size
• Small firms v. large firms
• Financing innovation
• E-business and the small firm
• The internet market
• Business on the internet
• Knowledge management
• Knowledge-based economy
• The innovation process
Support, Growth and Business Start-ups: Business start-up and aftercare support
• Export and trade development
• The role of support agencies
• Enterprise initiatives
• The neoclassical economics approach
• Stage models of growth
• Barriers to growth
• Global markets
• Different entrepreneurial cultures
• The importance of developed networks
• Sources of information
• Designing the business plan
• Writing the business plan
• Implementing the business plan |
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| I wanted to start my own business and felt that I needed a diploma to give me the credibility with future clients. DCA has allowed me to meet my goals. — J. K. |
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| I have no idea when my course will finish or what I have to do as a final assessment but whatever it is I know I will handle it and finish it. You guys have been great! — Karen Hervey |
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