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Business Enterprise Start-Up

Upon course completion, students will be able to:

1. perform basic steps in starting a new business and registering a company
2. interview and recruit staff and conduct basic HR and office administrative activities within safe and ethical employment conditions
3. prepare a marketing plan and develop basic knowledge and skills in customer service
4. operate basic accounting procedures including preparation of budgets and financial statements
5. identify key features and opportunities in the business environment in Hong Kong and China
6. develop a business proposal and apply it in a simulated business setting

Course Content

• Entrepreneurship and business start-up techniques
  • Planning a new business, structuring a company, sources of financial assistance, business registration and government supports
  • Set-up of virtual enterprises
    
    
• Human resources and office administration
  • Staff recruitment and introduction to labour rights
  • Occupational health & safety and business ethics
  • Understanding simple business transactions and preparing agenda and minutes for meeting
    
    
• Marketing Practice
  • Introduction of marketing concepts, marketing objective, target market and market analysis, marketing mix and customer relations
    
    
• Accounting and Finance for Entrepreneur
  • Start-up costs and sources of start-up finance
  • Cost accounting, breakeven analysis, financial statements, and ratio analysis
    
    
• Hong Kong and China Business Environment
  • Economic development and job opportunity in the Pearl River Delta region
  • Legal system in China and current economic issues
    
    
• Business Start-up Simulation
  • Preparation and delivery of business ideas
  • Practical interaction, and evaluation and conclusion

Articulation to Further Study and/or Employment

Related further study opportunities in the VTC/Professional qualifications:

• Further study opportunities in Vocational Training Council in business disciplines such as Higher Diploma/Diploma in Business Information Systems, Higher Diploma in Business Promotion & Design, Higher Diploma in Business Service Operations and Management, and Higher Diploma in Transport and Logistics Studies, etc.
  
  
• Employment opportunities
  Graduates will benefit from the course when starting up a small business of their own and preparing for entry-level employment such as sales personnel and office assistant in the business services sector. Upon completion of further study in relevant Higher Diploma/Diploma courses, they may take up posts at the technical, supervisory, or managerial level in the business sector.

Mode of Attendance (mode 1)

• IVE（Morrison Hill )
  6 Oi Kwan Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong

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