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Business Planning & Starting-Up
Financial Planning
Human Resources
Market Development
Marketing
Product Development
Home-Based Business
General Management
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Attacking Business Decision Problems With Breakeven Analysis
This fact sheet illustrates ways in which breakeven analysis can be applied to sales, profits, and costs.
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Basic Bookkeeping
This fact sheet describes a simple, single entry bookkeeping system suitable for a small business that has a limited number of transactions.
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Bonding
This fact sheet discusses bonding and the three most common types.
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Checklist for Developing a Training Program
This fact sheet is designed to help owner-managers of small manufacturing firms set up a systematic program for training their employees.
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Checklist for Profit Watching
This fact sheet will help you analyze your profits, the contribution of each of your product lines or services to them, and will help you determine if you have the kind of record system you need.
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Conducting Effective Meetings
This fact sheet discusses five components that are essential to conducting effective meetings.
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Credit and Collections
This fact sheet shows the owner-manager how to plan for the movement of cash through the business and thus plan for future requirements.
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Departmentalizing and Inventory Management in a Retail Store
This fact sheet provides general information and the basic steps that could be followed in organizing a retail store by departments.
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Doing Business in the Government Procurement Marketplace
This fact sheet provides information on doing business in the government procurement marketplace. Some definitions of terms related to government procurement are also offered.
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Improving Personal Selling in Small Retailer Firms
This fact sheet discusses basic elements for developing a program to improve personal selling in small retailer firms.
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Online Small Business Workshop - OSBW
The Online Small Business Workshop (OSBW) is a Web-based workshop designed to provide you with techniques for developing your business idea, starting a new venture and improving your existing small business.
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Preventing Theft
This fact sheet provides steps to prevent employee embezzlement and pilferage, shoplifting, burglary and robbery loss.
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Problems in Managing a Family-Owned Business
This fact sheet discusses problems in managing a family-owned business from the viewpoint of the family member who is the company's manager.
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Profit by Your Wholesaler's Services
This fact sheet discusses services offered by wholesalers pointing out that the range of assistance varies according to the individual wholesaler and the line of merchandise.
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Profit Pricing for the Costing of a Service
This fact sheet is intended to provide a guide and an understanding of the main factors to consider when establishing your costs, your prices, and your profits.
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Selecting Your Supplier
This fact sheet lists points that should be noted before making contact with a potential supplier.
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Selling a Business
This fact sheet offer guidelines to help you plan the selling of your business and the 10 steps to the business sale.
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Setting Up a Pay System
This fact sheet provides time-tested concepts for determining competitive pay levels and for maintaining fair pay relationships among the jobs comprising a small company.
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Standard Outline for a Partnership or Shareholder Agreement
This fact sheet describes a standard outline for a partnership or shareholder agreement.
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Techno-Watch and Strategic Alert
This factsheet provides information on the concept of techno-watch, strategic alert, competitive intelligence and others.
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Joint Venture Agreement Checklist
This fact sheet is a guide to putting a Joint Venture Agreement together.
Cooperatives
E-business
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