Management

Guides | Fact Sheets | Programs and Services | Resources | Publications

Guides

• Info-Guide – Employment and Training
• Info-Guide – Permits and Licences Required for Certain Types of Businesses

Fact Sheets

Contracts and Agreements

• Bonding
• Joint Venture Agreement Checklist
• Questions to Ask Before You Sign a Lease
• Standard Outline for a Partnership or Shareholder Agreement

Financial Management

• Attacking Business Decision Problems With Breakeven Analysis
• Basic Bookkeeping
• Business Plan for Retailers
• Business Plan for Small Construction Firms
• Business Plan for Small Manufacturers
• Business Plan for Small Service Firms
• Business Plan Guide
• Checklist for Profit Watching
• Credit and Collections
• Dealing With Your Banker & Other Lenders
• Lending - The Basic Criteria
• Profit Pricing for a Manufacturer
• Profit Pricing for the Costing of a Service
• Selling a Business
• Venture Checklists

Human Resources

• Checklist for Developing a Training Program
• Setting Up a Pay System

Leadership and Operations

• Conducting Effective Meetings
• Cooperative Glossary
• Core Functions and Processes of Cooperative Governance
• How to Have a Positive Image
• Problems in Managing a Family-Owned Business
• Selecting Professional Services

Managing a Retail Store

• Advertising Guidelines for Small Retailer Firms
• Business Plan for Retailers
• Departmentalizing and Inventory Management in a Retail Store
• Improving Personal Selling in Small Retailer Firms
• Labelling Fact Sheet
• Marketing Checklist for Small Retailers
• Merchandise for Profit
• Profit by Your Wholesaler's Services
• Selecting Your Supplier
• Setting the Right Price
• Store Location - "Little Things" Mean a Lot

Risk Management

• Bad Cheque Control
• Preventing Theft

Sales, Promotion and Marketing

• Advertising Do's and Don'ts
• Developing New Accounts
• Do You Know the Results of Your Advertising
• Doing Business on the Internet
• Guide to Market Research and Analysis
• Guidelines for Developing a Company Brochure
• Invite Your Trade Show Prospects
• Making Presentations
• Market Analysis
• Marketing Plan Outline
• Measuring Sales Force Performance
• Plan Your Advertising Budget
• Selling Products on Consignment
• Signs and Your Business
• Trade Shows
• Understanding and Developing Your Sales Force
• Ways to Promote Your Product or Service

Programs and Services

• Canadian General Standards Board
• Détail Formation
• E-services for businesses
• Labelling Assessment Tools
• Managing for Business Success
• National Quality Institute - NQI
• Performance Plus
• SMEs - Improve Your Environmental Performance!li>
• Steps to Competitiveness
• Steps to Growth Capital
• Sustainability Reporting Toolkit
• Workplace Health

Other Programs and Services:

• Employment
• Human Resources
• Information Services
• Marketing and Promotion
• Statistics and Analysis
• Training

Resources

HR for Employers—Government of Canada

A one-stop information source for your human resources management needs.

Innovation Management Toolkit—Industry Canada

This toolkit is a set of interactive, easy-to-use Internet-based tools. It introduces approaches to improving innovation used by global leaders to managers of smaller companies.

Outils de gestion—MDEIE

These tools enable dynamic enterprises to solve problems or improve management quickly and cost-effectively, with or without outside support. (In French only)

Sources of Financing—Industry Canada

Sources of Financing is an Internet resource for locating traditional and alternative sources of small business financing.

Publications

• Business Continuity Planning - A Guide
• Employee or Self-Employed?
• Energy Efficiency Publications
• Guide for Canadian Small Businesses