Starting Your Own Business in South Africa

12th Revised Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-19-905534-0
Verlag: Hurst & Co.

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

This 12th edition of South Africa's bestselling guide to starting a business contains all the information you need to start, manage and sustain a small business in South Africa, now updated to incorporate the latest changes to SA legislation that affect small businesses. The book is divided into three parts that cover the key stages in starting a business: Planning, Getting started and Scaling up. The material is further divided into clear and manageable chapters, each dealing with
a particular element of the process. The chapters offer: vital information, step-by-step guidelines, relevant SA case studies, advice and support, links to other resources, and information on women in business.

Zielgruppe

Literate. post matriculants or adults who are thinking of starting their own business.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Terblanche, Barrie

Moeng, Pamela

Macleod, Guy

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensgründung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Kleine und Mittlere Unternehmen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part l: Planning
1: Do you really want to do this?
2: Many styles, few rules
3: Where do you start?
4: A start-up story
5: Thinking about partnerships
6: Different ways of starting in business
Part ll: Getting started
7: Set up a base camp
8: Cash-flow chart
9: Breakeven point
10: Into the market
11: The first scary months
12: Structuring your business
Part lll: Scaling up
13: Finding finance
14: From garage to factory, home to office
15: Setting up systems
16: Understanding labour law
17: Financial management and tax
18: Your business and black economic empowerment
19: Women in business
20: Support for your business

Über Autor(innen)

Barrie Terblanche is a graduate of Stellenbosch University, and is a financial and business journalist who co-owned and edited the newspaper Big News for the Business Owner. He won the Africa SMME journalist of the year award (2003) for his writing on small, medium and micro-enterprises and regularly contributes to the 'It's your business' supplement of the Sunday Times newspaper.

Pamela Moeng worked in educational publishing before moving to the Department of Trade and Industry (dti) to head up one of their business publications unit. She has extensive experience of small business development in South Africa and has a particular interest in the challenges facing women in industry. She currently works for the Gauteng provincial government in a directorial capacity.

Guy Macleod has an MBA from the University of Stellenbosch Graduate School of Business. He has set up and run several businesses and currently works as a business consultant.