Finance for small businesses

This module focuses on the essential financial knowledge needed to manage a business effectively, including cash flow planning, investment evaluation, and preparing a business plan.

Using practical examples, it introduces tools that can help entrepreneurs monitor business performance and present their company's financial situation and outlook clearly to potential investors or other stakeholders.

Topics include:

• Management control: financial statements and performance indicators
• Financial balance and liquidity management
• Economic sustainability
• Asset and capital balance
• The entrepreneur as a financial tightrope walker
• Investment evaluation
• The business plan

Watch the first video lecture and the animated video that summarize the key messages of this module.