1. Evaluate the skills required of an entrepreneur, including how to make money and to mitigate the risk of failure
Learning
Analysis
Problem Solving

2. Discuss the differences and similarities of funding from alternative sources of finance.
Analysis

3. Plan and develop the financing of your own business or advise others on their own business
Knowledge & Understanding
Analysis
Communication

4. Present a viable business plan for a start-up or buyout business to a panel of venture capitalists.
Application
Communication

This module analyses the financial decisions associated with capital and you will be introduced to the forms of finance available to business, including the various forms of equity finance. In doing so you will explore the ways in which businesses are valued, emphasising high-risk, early-stage start-ups and their legal and financial structuring.

Lam, M.S. & Vega, G. (2021). Entrepreneurial Finance: Concepts and Cases. Abingdon: Routledge.

Hulme, S. & Drew, C. (2020). Entrepreneurial Finance. London: Macmillan Education Limited.

N/A

1. Presentation of Business Plan (2,500 words) (80%) (LO 4)

2. Entrepreneurship and Small Business (ESB) Certificate) (1.0hrs on-line test) (20%) (LOs 1-3) for Stoke campus students

Note: For Partner institutes – 1-hour online test to meet LOs 1-3 (20%)

This module introduces you to financial objectives and financial management together with issues of ownership and control. Students will look into the skillset of an entrepreneur, understanding about communication, creativity and resilience. The module will look at three main types of entrepreneurial organisations: small businesses, scalable start-ups and social enterprises. You will also understand how to make money from buyouts and how to mitigate the risk of failure.

Funding (finding money) should be the top priority in a business with areas of cost of borrowing and the cost of capital and other factors that influence the choice of the type of capital a business will raise.

Areas to be covered include:

-Operating budgets,
-Funding decisions and implications
-Crowd funding crowd finance
-Credit unions
-Credit card funding
-Business angels
-Grants
-Peer to peer loans and Microloans.

The module will also look at how to complete a viable business plan for a start-up or buyout business. This module is designed to give you an understanding of key issues relating to business management, development and entrepreneurism.

On completion of the module you will have the tools and knowledge to plan and develop the financing of your own business or advise others on their own business and will have an in depth understanding of the working environment of start-up businesses

Opportunities to achieve the Entrepreneurship and Small Business (ESB) Certification for students studying on Stoke Campus

Concepts, theories and principles will be explored, practiced and demonstrated. Practical skills enhanced by recommended videos and talks. Cognitive and personal skills developed in open-ended problem-solving exercises. Oral feedback is given during sessions. The assessment will examine the wider learning outcomes expressed in the descriptor. Stoke Campus Students will undertake self-learning for the Entrepreneurship and Small Business (ESB) Certification through our training software Gmetrix.

You will undertake ¿formative ¿ assessments during the module to help you monitor your learning and provide you and us with ongoing feedback on your progress, that helps you prepare for the ¿summative assessment(s) during or at the end of the module.

Gmetrix training software to be used to explore the Entrepreneurship and Small Business (ESB) Certification for students studying at Stoke Campus.

LinkedIn Learning

TEDx talks
The University Library and Learning Resources - books and academic journals
The module VLE
Electronic data bases
Learning support materials
Online Tools, Internet