Business Management for Rural Entrepreneurs
Release Date: Each May
Lead Organisation: IBERS, Aberystwyth University
Equip yourself with the skills and knowledge you need to become a successful entrepreneur.
Key skills include, leadership, business analysis and planning, change management and strategies to identify risk and build in resilience. You will learn how to develop a robust and logical business venture plan and use these skills to create one for your own new venture. Because the module requires knowledge of Microsoft Excel, it also contain a series of short online tasks using Excel to help students develop the necessary knowledge to create budgetary accounts for their business venture plan.
Module content:
- Principles of Entrepreneurship
- Business Planning and Structures
- Business Analysis
- Integration
- Managing Change
- Risk and Uncertainty
- Investment Appraisal
- Robustness, Resilience and Sensitivity Analysis
- Case Studies
Assessments and Learning Outcomes for this module can be found HERE
Qualifications which this Module may be Used Towards
| PGCert Nuffield Farming Scholarship | Option |
|---|---|
| MSc Sustainable Agriculture | Option |
| MSc Agrifood Innovation | Option |
| MRes Agriculture | Option |
| MRes Agrifood Innovation | Option |
| Professional Doctorate in Agriculture | Option |
| Professional Doctorate in BioInnovation | Option |