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Personal Finance for Entrepreneurs: Business & Personal

This course explains how the finances of the business and its owner are intertwined, including cash flow and debt.

Created byJeffrey Cornwall
BeginnerUpdated Feb 26, 2021

About This Course

A common cause of failure among startups is the business owner running out of cash before the business has time to become successful. The interplay between the financial conditions of a business and the financial situation of the owner is something that many entrepreneurs fail to plan for when they launch a new business. This course explains how the finances of the business and its owner are intertwined, including cash flow and debt. We also explore ways in which an entrepreneur can more effectively manage the personal side of this financial equation to ensure that their business has the best chance for survival from startup through its maturity. Finally, we look at the paths entrepreneurs have available to build personal wealth.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Recognize the importance of prudent personal money management for entrepreneurs
  2. Understand how to manage cash in a small business
  3. Learn how to effectively use debt in a small business
  4. Understand how entrepreneurs can build wealth for themselves

Course Content

1 activity • 14 videos • duration: 1h 30m

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Section 114 videos • 1 quiz • 1.5 hours
  • videocamIntroduction
    Duration 2:14
  • videocamThe Bootstrap Life
    Duration 6:41
  • videocamKeeping Business Funds and Personal Funds Separate
    Duration 9:36
  • videocamHow Much and When Should You Pay Yourself?
    Duration 4:06
  • videocamRunway and Emergency Funds
    Duration 7:38
  • videocamThe Three Buckets of Profits
    Duration 5:26
  • videocamGood Debt, Bad Debt
    Duration 15:15
  • videocamKeep Track of Your Credit
    Duration 7:41
  • videocamLines of Credit
    Duration 5:45
  • videocamBuilding Wealth from Your Business
    Duration 8:29
  • videocamInvesting Beyond Your Business
    Duration 6:02
  • videocamBenefit Programs: For You and Your Employees
    Duration 3:49
  • videocamFinding and Working with a Tax Accountant
    Duration 5:10
  • videocamConclusion
    Duration 2:14
  • quizReview Questions

Your Instructor

Jeffrey Cornwall

Entrepreneur / Professor / Author

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Dr. Jeff Cornwall is the inaugural recipient of the Jack C. Massey Chair in Entrepreneurship and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. He also was founding director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Belmont, and led the Center for the first ten years of its operation. He has a Doctorate in Business Administration and an MBA from the University of Kentucky. In the late 1980’s, Dr. Cornwall left academics for a nine year “sabbatical” to become the co-founder and President/CEO of Atlantic Behavioral Health Systems, headquartered in Raleigh, NC. Dr. Cornwall has received national awards for his work in curriculum development and teaching, and in 2013 he was named the National Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year by the United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship. He has published ten books and numerous articles on entrepreneurship.

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

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Student's Choice
25 reviews
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    Jenny C.
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    Great topic!

  • JM
    Jessica M.
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    I loved this course. I am a newer Entrepreneur with an accounting background. These concepts were well explained and I like the general rules of thumb. It covered the topic areas that I was interested in learning about. Thank you!

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