Entrepreneurship and effective small business management / Norman M. Scarborough, Presbyterian College, Jeffrey R. Cornwall, Belmont University.
By: Scarborough, Norman M.
Contributor(s): Cornwall, Jeffrey.
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TextPublisher: Boston : Pearson, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Edition: Eleventh Edition.Description: xxvii, 908 pages ; 29 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780133506327; 0133506320.Subject(s): Small business -- Management | New business enterprises -- Management | Small business -- United States -- Management | New business enterprises -- United States -- ManagementDDC classification: 657/.9042 | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Kirinyaga University Library General Stacks | Non-fiction | HD62.7 .S27 2015 | Available | KyU/2017/7131 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 846-883) and index.
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The challenge of entrepreneurship -- Entrepreneurs : the driving force behind small business -- Building the business plan : beginning considerations -- Strategic management and the entrepreneur -- Choosing a form of ownership -- Franchising and the entrepreneur -- Buying an existing business -- Conducting a feasibility analysis and crafting a winning business plan -- Building a business plan : financial issues -- Creating a solid financial plan -- Managing cash flow -- Building a business plan : marketing your company -- Building a guerrilla marketing plan -- Creative use of advertising and promotion -- Pricing and credit strategies -- Global marketing strategies -- E-commerce and entrepreneurship -- Putting the business plan to work : sources of funds -- Sources of equity financing -- Sources of debt financing -- Location and layout -- Location,layout,and physical facilities -- Managing a small business : techniques for enhancing profitability -- Supply chain management -- Managing inventory -- Managing people : a company's most -- Valuable resource -- Staffing and leading a growing company -- Legal aspects of small business : succession, ethics,and government regulation -- Management succession and risk management strategies in the family business -- Ethics and social responsibility : doing the right thing -- The legal environment : business law and government -- Regulation -- Appendix: sample business plan : my friends' bookstore -- Cases -- Endnotes -- Index.