Start Your Own Business

The Course will run for 8 weeks on the following dates:

15^th 22^nd 29^th of June

 6^th 13^th 20^th 27^th of July

 3^rd of August

19:00 – 21:30 each evening - online

The Start Your Own Business programme aims to help participants who are thinking of starting up their own business to develop an awareness and practical understanding of the steps involved in becoming self-employed and starting up their own business.

This programme will provide individuals who are seeking to start their own business with the skills, management tools and expertise in making the right decisions, planning and organising effectively. It will help individuals gauge what will be required in order to keep their new venture running effectively and efficiently

Topics Covered:

• Self Assessment (Topic aim) is to introduce participants to the concept of entrepreneurship and what it means to be a business owner. The downs and ups and how to deal with both.
• Legal Issues for Start-up businesses (Topic aim) is to show participants the formal vehicles to use to conduct business, particularly the new companies acts and legislation; the Topic also introduces the self-assessment taxation system and the responsibilities to revenue of the self-employed. The Topic also deals with protecting the business idea online
• Market and Market research (Topic aim) is to give a solid professional grounding in the principles of marketing leading up to developing a marketing plan
• Sales and networking (Topic aim) is to show that sales are core to all businesses, so that participants prepare their sales pitches and networking pitches for immediate use even if the business has not started.
• Administration and bookkeeping (Topic Aim) to create an understanding in the participants of the importance of good financial management which ranges from basic bookkeeping to creation of internal controls and revenue commissioner ready accounts, as well as how why and when to register for appropriate taxes
• Finance and financial management (Topic aim) to inform of the routes to finance available in current times and to establish the methods of costing and other basic tools to ensure profitability
• Business Planning (Topic aim) To demonstrate to delegates the importance of comprehensive planning for their prospective business
• Technology in modern business (topic aim) This topic discussed the remarkable aids to small businesses that have evolved in recent times, the topic mentions all the new social media platforms, as well as financial technology that has emerged