This course will initiate the student to the numerous activities involved in starting a business enterprise. The student will examine today's business environment and many challenges facing new business entities. More specifically, the student will learn about important factors relating to governmental or regulatory issues, legal aspects, E-business, globalisation, and competition. On a primary level, the student will learn how to develop a clear vision and idea for a business project, verify its feasibility, and identify possible means of realising it. The student will then collect and analyse economic, financial, commercial, and relevant market data to forecast demand and costs for a given product or service. The student will then build on their knowledge gained and formulate a business plan that would be presented to potential investors. Finally, the student will learn how to register a small business while considering the most appropriate legal form it should follow. In this sixth and last semester course, AMT students will have the opportunity to put into practice a broad range of concepts learned throughout the program’s curriculum, from accounting and finance, to management, operations, and economics to name but a few. Therefore, numerous links exist between this course and all concepts learned by the AMT students during their last five semesters.
- Teacher: Leandro Feitosa Jorge