Small Business Success 1

This certificate is perfect for current students in any program area who want to start their own business and are seeking basic small business training. You’ll be introduced to all aspects of business ownership including business models, legal formation, taxes and insurance, funding sources and bookkeeping. All courses are instructor-led and available in the traditional classroom setting or online.

COURSE LIST

Course list for reference only. Current students please refer to your individualized program plan or see your advisor.
**Outside effort hours are an estimate based on state standards, and may vary from person to person.

Technical Studies (7 Credits)

Course Title
Course Number
Credits
Instructional Hours
Outside Effort Hours**
Prior Learning Credit Eligibility
• QuickBooks Accounting Online

  10-101-104

  2Credit

  72

  36

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  • Instructional Hours: 72
  • Outside Effort Hours: 36
  • Course Number: 10101104
  • Credits: 2.00

  Credit for Prior Learning Options Available

  Lays the foundation for students to gain experience using QuickBooks Pro. Students practice creating a company using a chart of accounts, creating vendors and customers, demo payroll, record transactions, and generate and use financial reports. Being familiar with Windows, business experience or completion of an accounting course is helpful. Upon completion of this course, students are eligible to take the QuickBooks Certification exam.

  Coreq: Student has completed or is simultaneously enrolling in ANY of the following options:

  • ACCTG 10101107 - Accounting, Principles of

  • ACCTG 10101180 - Financial Accounting 1

  • Student is not in progress in an Associate Degree, Apprenticeship, or Technical Diploma (31 or 32 level)

• Entrepreneurship, Introduction to

  10-145-104

  3Credit

  54

  108

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  • Instructional Hours: 54
  • Outside Effort Hours: 108
  • Course Number: 10145104
  • Credits: 3.00

  Credit for Prior Learning Options Available

  Provides students with opportunities to investigate, understand and apply the process of choosing entrepreneurship as a career path. Explores the entrepreneurial experience by focusing on an awareness of entrepreneurship, opportunity recognition, business concept development and preliminary feasibility testing. Students gain the knowledge, skills, concepts and strategies relevant for start-up and early-stage entrepreneurs. The practical hands-on approach encourages students to immerse themselves in the entrepreneurial experience.

• Building Your Business Model

  10-145-107

  2Credit

  36

  72

  N/A

  • Instructional Hours: 36
  • Outside Effort Hours: 72
  • Course Number: 10145107
  • Credits: 2.00

  Evaluating and modeling potential new business ventures is the focus of this course. Students will explore and map how a business intends to make money through the four main areas of a business: customers, offer, infrastructure, and financial viability. Through a hands-on, experiential approach students gain a better understanding of how to transform a start-up into a repeatable and scalable business venture.