Course Summary
Learn the fundamentals of business management and gain the skills you need to succeed in any industry in this comprehensive course.Key Learning Points
- Understand the basics of business operations and management
- Learn how to analyze and interpret financial statements
- Develop skills in problem-solving, decision-making, and leadership
Job Positions & Salaries of people who have taken this course might have
- USA: $70,000-$100,000
- India: ₹3,00,000-₹9,00,000
- Spain: €25,000-€40,000
- USA: $70,000-$100,000
- India: ₹3,00,000-₹9,00,000
- Spain: €25,000-€40,000
- USA: $80,000-$120,000
- India: ₹4,00,000-₹16,00,000
- Spain: €35,000-€60,000
- USA: $70,000-$100,000
- India: ₹3,00,000-₹9,00,000
- Spain: €25,000-€40,000
- USA: $80,000-$120,000
- India: ₹4,00,000-₹16,00,000
- Spain: €35,000-€60,000
- USA: $50,000-$150,000
- India: ₹2,00,000-₹50,00,000
- Spain: €15,000-€100,000
Related Topics for further study
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the fundamentals of business management
- Develop practical skills in analyzing financial statements and making strategic decisions
- Enhance your leadership and problem-solving abilities
Prerequisites or good to have knowledge before taking this course
- No prior knowledge or experience in business required
- Basic understanding of math and statistics recommended
Course Difficulty Level
BeginnerCourse Format
- Online
- Self-paced
- Interactive
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- Financial Accounting Fundamentals
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Description
Welcome to English for Business and Entrepreneurship, a course created by the University of Pennsylvania, and funded by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Office of English Language Programs.
Outline
- Unit 1: Becoming an Entrepreneur
- Welcome to English for Business & Entrepreneurship (Video 1)
- Course Introduction Part I - Course Overview (Video 2)
- Course Introduction Part II - Using the Course Site (Video 3)
- Unlockable Achievement
- What is Entrepreneurship? (Video 4 Part 1)
- What is Entrepreneurship? (Video 4 Part 2)
- Language Focus - Reading Skills (Video 5 Part 1)
- Language Focus - Reading Skills (Video 5 Part 2)
- Unlockable Achievement
- Why Entrepreneurship? (Video 6 Part 1)
- Why Entrepreneurship? (Video 6 Part 2)
- Ideas, Products, and Opportunities (Video 7)
- Unlockable Achievement
- Unlockable Achievement
- Creating Simple, One-Sentence Product Descriptions (Video 8 Part 1)
- Creating Simple, One-Sentence Product Descriptions (Video 8 Part 2)
- Deciding on a Type of Startup (Video 9 Part 1)
- Deciding on a Type of Startup, Guest Speaker (Video 9 Part 2)
- Risk, Failure, and Important Steps (Video 10 Part 1)
- Risk, Failure, and Important Steps (Video 10 Part 2)
- Language Focus - Comparative Structures (Video 11 Part 1)
- Language Focus - Comparative Structures (Video 11 Part 2)
- Language Focus - Comparative Structures (Video 11 Part 3)
- Online Learning Opportunities to Extend Your Skills
- Overview of the Unit
- Video/Listening: Elon Musk's Journey to Mars
- Game 1: Unit 1 Vocabulary Flashcards
- BASIC: Entrepreneurship seen as solution to South Africa's unemployment crisis
- ADVANCED: Entrepreneurship seen as a solution to South Africa’s unemployment crisis
- Women taxi startups gaining speed globally
- African women entrepreneurs think big and share dreams
- “This recent grad brewed a startup by managing the details”
- Young Entrepreneurs Win Million-Dollar Prize
- “Many paths lead to successful business startups”
- “Entrepreneurs find new ways to address housing shortages"
- Video: “Ludwick Marishane: A bath without water”
- “Broadway rallies to save a beloved diner"
- Game: Unit 1 Vocabulary Flashcards
- Unit 1 Assessment 1: Self-Assessment of Business & Entrepreneurship Vocabulary Knowledge
- Check Your Understanding: "Entrepreneurship Seen as Solution to S. Africa's Unemployment Crisis"
- Value Affirmation Activity
- Check Your Understanding: "African women entrepreneurs think big and share dreams"
- Check Your Understanding: "This recent grad brewed a startup by managing the details"
- Game 2: Identifying Different Types of Products
- Game 3: Creating Product Descriptions
- Game 4: Correlative Connectors & Sentence Connectors
- Game: Connector Practice Activity
- Check Your Understanding: "Many paths lead to successful business startups"
- Check Your Understanding: Entrepreneurs find new ways to address housing shortages
- Check Your Understanding: "Ludwick Marishane: A Bath Without Water"
- Check Your Understanding: "Broadway rallies to save a beloved diner"
- Unit 2: Identifying an Opportunity
- Market Research and Testing to Identify Opportunities (Video 1)
- Unlockable Achievement
- Informal Research - Advantages and Disadvantages (Video 2)
- Formal Research - Advantages and Disadvantages (Video 3 Part 1)
- Formal Research - Advantages and Disadvantages (Video 3 Part 2)
- Language Focus - Listening Strategies (Video 4 Part 1)
- Language Focus - Listening Strategies (Video 4 Part 2)
- Unlockable Achievement
- Creating a Survey (Video 5 Part 1)
- Creating a Survey (Video 5 Part 2)
- Language Focus - Questions and Intonation (Video 6 Part 1)
- Language Focus - Questions and Intonation (Video 6 Part 2)
- Language Focus: Sample questions and intonation
- Unlockable Achievement
- Collecting Data (Video 7)
- Evaluating Results (Video 8)
- Unlockable Achievement
- Completing Assessment 2 (Video 9 Part 1)
- Completing Assessment 2 (Video 9 Part 2)
- Unlockable Achievement
- Overview of the Unit
- Game 1: Unit 2 Vocabulary Flashcards
- BASIC: Washington state's new apple joining a changing industry
- ADVANCED: Washington state's new apple joining a changing industry
- BASIC: Bugs are the new food
- ADVANCED: Bugs are the new food
- Samples of Question Forms and Intonation (for Assessment 1)
- Assessment 2 Model
- “Taiwanese business seeks specialized markets”
- “People who bring their own grocery bags are more likely to buy junk food”
- Game: Unit 2 Vocabulary Flashcards
- Check Your Comprehension: "Washington state's new apple joining a changing industry"
- Game 2: More Practice with Comparative Language
- Check Your Comprehension: "Bugs are the new food"
- Game 3: Creating Survey Questions
- Unit 2, Assessment 1: Questions and Intonation
- Analyzing Sample Survey Data
- Game: Question Matching Practice Activity
- Check Your Understanding: "Taiwanese business seeks specialized markets"
- Check Your Understanding: "People who bring their own grocery bags are more likely to buy junk food"
- Unit 3: Creating a Business Plan (Part 1)
- Why write a business plan? (Video 1)
- Strategic Language Focus - Intensifiers & degree complements in persuasive business writing (Video 2 Part 1)
- Strategic Language Focus - Intensifiers & degree complements in persuasive business writing (Video 2 Part 2)
- Unlockable Achievement
- Business description, including management and operations (Video 3)
- Marketing: Part I: Vocabulary and Concepts (Video 4 Part 1)
- Marketing: Part I: Vocabulary and Concepts (Video 4 Part 2)
- Marketing: Part I: Vocabulary and Concepts (Video 4 Part 3)
- Marketing: Part II: Business Plan (Video 5 Part 1)
- Marketing: Part II: Business Plan (Video 5 Part 2)
- Overview of Unit 3
- BASIC: Nigeria's Wecyclers work for reusable future in Lagos
- ADVANCED: Nigeria’s Wecyclers work for reusable future in Lagos
- BASIC: Chinese go to Los Angeles for Kobe Bryant, but skip the beach
- ADVANCED: Chinese go to Los Angeles for Kobe Bryant, but skip the beach
- “50 business ideas you can start for under $100"
- "Chilean government seeks to boost female-led start-ups"
- Game: Unit 3 Vocabulary Flashcards
- Game 1: Practice with degree complements and intensifiers
- Check Your Understanding: "Nigeria's Wecyclers work for reusable future in Lagos"
- Check Your Understanding: "Chinese Go to Los Angeles for Kobe Bryant, But Skip the Beach"
- Game 2: Sorting the 4 Ps
- Check your Understanding: "50 business ideas you can start for under $100"
- Check Your Understanding: "Chilean government seeks to boost female-led start-ups"
- Unit 3: Creating a Business Plan (Part 2)
- Financials: Part I: Startup Costs, Operating Costs & Sales Projections (Vocabulary & concept focus) (Video 6)
- Financials: Part II: Income statement (Vocabulary & concept focus) (Video 7)
- Financials: Part III: Startup Costs, Sales & Revenue Projections, Cost Projections & Income Statement (Calculations) (Video 8 Part 1)
- Financials: Part III: Startup Costs, Sales & Revenue Projections, Cost Projections & Income Statement (Calculations) (Video 8 Part 2)
- Financials: Part III: Startup Costs, Sales & Revenue Projections, Cost Projections & Income Statement (Calculations) (Video 8 Part 3)
- Strategic Language Focus - Describing Financials (Video 9)
- Creating a brief business plan (Video 10 Part 1)
- Creating a brief business plan (Video 10 Part 2)
- Unlockable Achievement
- Template and Model for Brief Business Plans (for Assessment 2)
- It's a startup world!
- Game: Unit 3 Vocabulary Flashcards
- Game 3: Vocabulary: Word problems matching numbers with words
- Game 4: Vocabulary: Word problems matching numbers with words
- Game 5: Interpreting Results
- Unit 4: Attracting Investors and Obtaining Financial Support
- Financing a Business: Bootstrapping versus Outside Funding (Video 1 Part 1)
- Financing a Business: Bootstrapping versus Outside Funding (Video 1 Part 2)
- Unlockable Achievement
- Debt-Financing: Bank Loans and Microloans (Video 2 Part 1)
- Debt-Financing: Bank Loans and Microloans (Video 2 Part 2)
- Unlockable Achievement
- Equity-Financing: Venture Capital (Video 3 Part 1)
- Equity-Financing: Venture Capital (Video 3 Part 2)
- Finding Investors in the Social Network (Video 4)
- Crowdfunding (Video 5 Part 1)
- Crowdfunding (Video 5 Part 2)
- Listening: Crowd-sourced funding provides kickstart to new business ventures
- Unlockable Achievement
- Making a Pitch to Attract Investors (Video 6 Part 1)
- Making a Pitch to Attract Investors (Video 6 Part 2)
- Creating an Effective Hook (Video 7 Part 1)
- Creating an Effective Hook (Video 7 Part 2)
- Adding Impact: Word Stress, Body Language,& Eye Contact (Video 8)
- Listening: How to Pitch a Business
- Unlockable Achievement
- Persuasive Pitch, Two Samples
- Unlockable Achievement
- Course Conclusion
- Overview of the Unit
- Poll: Businesses Designed to Help India's Poor Attract Overseas Investors
- Instructions for Assessment 2: Persuasive Elevator Pitch
- Sample Elevator Pitch and Elevator Pitch Template
- BASIC: Tech startups boom in India, attract big investments
- ADVANCED: Tech startups boom in India, attract big investments
- "Crowdfunding for business growing in Africa"
- "The original social network: How global diasporas can mean big business"
- Game: Unit 4 Vocabulary Flashcards
- Unit 4 Assessment 1: Reflective Response
- Check Your Understanding: "Poll: Businesses Designed to Help India's Poor Attract Overseas Investors"
- Check Your Understanding: "Crowd-sourced funding provides 'Kickstart' to new business ventures"
- Game 1: Be brief!
- Check Your Understanding: "How to Pitch a Business"
- Unit 4 Assessment 2: Elevator Pitch (written)
- Check Your Understanding: "Tech startups boom in India, attract big investments"
- Check Your Understanding: "Crowdfunding for businesses growing in Africa"
- Check Your Understanding: "The original social network: How global diasporas can mean big business"
- Game: Build a Pitch - Structure Practice
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