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Entrepreneurial Finance: Small Business Financial Basics

This class provides a financial overview of the entrepreneurial journey from startup to operational decisions to exit planning

Created byRob Stephensworkspace_premiumBest Instructor
BeginnerUpdated Feb 9, 2024

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleIdentify the sources of cash for a small business
  • check_circleExplore types of business structures
  • check_circleRecognize key financial components of business plans and strategic planning
  • check_circleDiscover the lending criteria for business loans

About This Course

This class provides a financial overview of the entrepreneurial journey from startup to operational decisions to exit planning. You’ll hear from a business banker guest speaker who explains what lenders look at when deciding whether to make a loan to a small business.

You’ll learn: • Why and how entrepreneurs start companies. • Business structure selection • Sources of cash • Financial struggles of small businesses • Small business cash flow management • The financial components of a business plan • Strategic planning • Key small business financial metrics • Pricing and profitability analysis • Risk management • Exit planning

This course comes from recordings of an Entrepreneurial Finance class the author teaches to MBA students at a university. The author has been the CFO, SVP of Finance, or Director of Operations at multiple small and medium-sized companies.

Field of Study: Finance

Course Content

6 activities • 19 videos • duration: 3h 22m

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Section 14 videos • 1 quiz • 38 min
  • videocamIntroduction
    Duration 2:02
  • videocamPurpose of Your Company
    Duration 11:21
  • videocamStartup Survey and Roles of an Entrepreneur
    Duration 10:21
  • videocamSources of Cash
    Duration 15:06
  • quizReview Quiz #1
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Section 21 videos • 1 quiz • 45 min
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Section 33 videos • 1 quiz • 19 min
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Section 46 videos • 1 quiz • 59 min
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Section 55 videos • 1 quiz • 38 min
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Section 61 quiz

Your Instructor

Rob Stephens

Founder of CFO Perspective

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Rob Stephens is the Founder of CFO Perspective, which provides continuing education courses for CPAs and financial management courses for business advisors and staff. He has been quoted in Forbes, U.S. News and World Report, Bloomberg Businessweek, and many other news sources. He is also the author of Key Performance Indicators and KPI Dashboards. Rob has a 30-year career that includes serving as a CFO, Director of Operations, and SVP of Finance. Rob is an adjunct instructor for the MBA program at Gonzaga University. Rob holds a Masters of Science in Personal Financial Planning and a Graduate Certificate in Financial Therapy from Kansas State University. He received a B.A. in Business Administration from the University of Washington.

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

What Students Are Saying

4.5 out of 5
Student's Choice
62 reviews
  • SW
    Stephen W.
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    lot of material, the slide deck is worth while reviewing afterwards as well

  • AF
    Allen F.
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    A good primer for anyone considering self employment

  • AM
    Ahsan M.
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    Great overview for a fairly broad topic. The pace and depth of material covered are just right. Useful examples given by Rob.

  • KO
    Kim O.
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    Great course

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