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ENTREPRENEUR'S STUDY

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ENTREPRENEUR'S STUDY

  1. Business objectives

    • Most effective
      • Specific
      • Measurable
      • Attainable
      • Relevant
      • Time bound
    • Main objectives
      • Survival
      • Profit maximization
      • Profit satisfying
      • Sales growth
    • Objectives conflict
      • Growth vs profit
      • Short-term vs long-term
      • Focus more on short-term objectives and company performance
    • Alternative aims and objectives
      • Ethical and socially responsible objectives
      • Provide a service to the public (public sector corporations)
      • To ensure the companies monitored comply with the laws laid down (public sector organizations)
      • Health care and education establishment- to provide a service
      • Charities and voluntary organizations
    • Changing objectives
      • Move to another objective
      • Competitive environment might change
      • Technology might change product designs
  2. Business entity in Malaysia

    • Sole propriety
      • -Owned by one person -May have one or more employees
      • Legal requirements
        • Keep proper business accounts and records
        • Comply with legal requirements (protection)
      • Advantages
        • Total control
        • Cheap and easy to start up
        • Keep all the profit
        • Business affairs are private
      • Disadvantages
        • Unlimited liability
        • Difficult to raise finance
        • Difficult to enjoy economies of scale
        • Problem of continuity
      • Why successful?
        • Offer specialist services
        • Sensitive to the needs of customers
        • Cater the needs of local people
    • Partnerships
      • - Two or more owners - not exceed 20 persons
      • Deed of partnership
        • Amount of capital
        • Dividing profits and losses
        • Votes each partner has
        • Rules to take new partner
        • How partner leaves
      • Advantages
        • Spreads the risk
        • Bring money and resources
        • Skills and ideas
        • Increased incredibility
      • Disadvantages
        • Share the profits
        • Less control
        • Disputes over workload
        • Do not see eye to eye
      • Why not become a private limited company?
        • Cost money
        • Company accounts are filed
        • Spend money on auditor
        • Partner has an agreed slice of business (finished)
    • Limited companies
      • Owned by its shareholder
        • Why buy shares?
          • Get dividends
          • Value of the share may increase and can be sold for a profit
          • Influence the management of the company
      • Limited liability
        • Inventors can lose the money they invested
      • Private limited companies
      • Public limited companies
        • Disadvantages
          • Costly and complicated to set up
          • Available financial information
          • Shareholders expect a steady stream of income
          • Threat of takeover
      • Flotation
    • Franchises
      • Advantages
        • Rapid expansion
        • Large profits
          • Selling franchises
          • Royalty payments
          • Selling raw materials and equipment
      • Advantages setting up as a franchise
        • Franchiser support franchisee
        • Benefit from national advertising
        • Less investment
        • Less risk
      • Disadvantages setting up as a franchise
        • Expensive
        • Have to pay percentage of your revenue
        • Less flexible
    • Cooperatives
      • Retail co-operatives
      • Marketing or trader co-operatives
      • Worker co-operatives
      • Problems
        • Long decision-making process
        • Difficult to raise finance
        • Idealistic and ethical aims may not be agreeable with all members
        • Not lead to profits on the long run
  3. Stakeholders

    • Any individual or organization that is affected by the activities of a business
    • Main stakeholders
      • Shareholders
      • Management and employees
      • Customers and suppliers
      • Bank and other financial organizations
      • Government
      • Trade unions
      • Pressure groups
    • Difference
      • Shareholders
        • Hold shares in the company
      • Stakeholders
        • Have an interest in the company but do not own it

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Agriculture Mind Map on ENTREPRENEUR'S STUDY, created by dnsofea _ on 23/12/2018.
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