Entrepreneurial Finance

Catalog description

This course will provide potential entrepreneurs a sufficient knowledge of applied finance needed to start and run an entrepreneurial business. Concepts covered will include the basic paradigms of finance such as risk and portfolio diversification. Discussions of the accounting environment of a small business and how the financial conditions can be analyzed will also be included. Finally, the course will focus on the financial skills a beginning entrepreneur will need to know to operate a small business, such as valuation, short-term capital management, financing decisions, and the exit strategies available to such enterprises.