Small Business Management — Module 2: Money, Legal & Funding

A producer who does not know her true cost is guessing her profit. This module ends the guessing.

Money, Legal & Funding is the second of five modules in Small Business Management: Production, Value Addition and Export, one of Stadira’s two flagship career courses. It is built for people who make, grow or process something in Botswana, or run the services that producers need.

In seven lessons with Prof. Kitso you cost a real batch and find the honest unit cost, set a price two ways and find your break-even, build a start-up budget and a 12-week cash-flow forecast, keep a cash book that a funder or BURS will accept, register your business on CIPA online and learn which licence and tax rules apply, meet the Botswana Bureau of Standards and the EDD Certificate that opens government buying to producers, and climb the funding ladder from your own savings to CEDA, YDF, LEA, NDB and a motshelo, ending with a 60-second pitch. You follow Mpho as she discovers her egg packs cost P13.35, not P12, and Kagiso as a profitable council order leaves him nine weeks in the red.

Every money skill is worked through in Pula with a money picture, then you try it with your own figures in fourteen practice boxes. The field tasks: seven days of a real cash book, a name search on CIPA, and your own pitch.

The module ends with a quiz with full explanations and your Costing & Finance Pack, marked by your teacher. Pass both to earn your Module 2 certificate.

Built, developed and assessed by qualified teachers. Aligned with HRDC priority skills. Stadira Training Institute, BQA-registered Consultancy, Reg. No. CON501, Gaborone, Botswana.