From the course: Finance Essentials for Small Business
Five characteristics of businesses that fail
- Hi, I'm Jim Stice. I'm a professor of accounting at Brigham Young University. This is my brother Kay. - I'm also a professor of accounting at Brigham Young University. - As accounting professors we teach financial analysis, cash flow projections, product costing and cash management. - All of these topics are important to the management of a small business. In fact, all of them highlight ways in which small business owners put their businesses at risk. - In this course we will explore five characteristics of small businesses that make them more likely to fail. - Those five characteristics are insufficient capital, poor cash management, poor record keeping and controls, improper product pricing, and uncontrolled growth. We have designed this Financial Essentials for Small Business course to be self-contained and we carefully explain any terminology that we use. - In short, this is an introductory course with no prior knowledge necessary. - The fact is that the vast majority of small businesses fail. - And with those business failures go the life savings and the dreams of the person who started the business. Join us to learn about the five characteristics to avoid in order to increase the likelihood that your small business will succeed.
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