Budgeting Essentials

Budgeting Essentials is a practical course that asks you to work in entrepreneurial teams to come up with a business idea, pitch it and then write a feasibility plan for your business idea. Your business idea can either be for a social enterprise or for-profit. You can locate your business anywhere in the world.Through sessions and group clinics, you will learn how to generate start-up ideas, and how to implement and execute your business idea.Core to this fundamental entrepreneurial process is learning about the role of entrepreneurs, how to evaluate if there is a fit between your idea and your customer, how to build a start-up business model, sell and market your business idea, and what are the sources of finance for your entrepreneurial start-up.

The course offers a systematic learning journey that first explains the entrepreneurial process and then, step-by-step, builds your understandings of how to generate business ideas, create a start-up business model, evaluate how you could sell and market your business idea, and subsequently fund the development of this business idea.By the end of the course, you will be able to appreciate what is practically involved in setting up a start-up. This process gives you core skills in opportunity recognition, start-up business model development and working in a team setting to pitch and plan out how to go about pitching and planning a start-up idea.Budgeting Essentials will cover:- Introduction to the course- The Entrepreneur- Business Models- Idea generation- Product Market fit- Sales and Marketing- Competition and Business Infrastructure- Sources of finance- Financial plans 

Budgeting Essentials is an entry level course for learners with limited or no experience of entrepreneurial processes. There is a particular emphasis on providing a practical hands-on approach to understanding how start-ups create, deliver and capture value for their customers.

There are no formal entry criteria for participating on this course. An interest or some experience in business finances and product start-ups is recommended.