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Entrepreneurship And Startup (ENTS) (Paper-20C) CMA Final Electives

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Syllabus

SECTION A: ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILL SETS [15%]

1. Entrepreneurial Skill Sets - 15%
  • Building the Entrepreneurial Quotient
  • Entrepreneurial Psychology, Driving Forces and Characteristics
  • Entrepreneurial Discipline with Practice, Patience and Perseverance (3Ps)
  • Identifying and Meeting the Gaps in Resources at Optimised Cost
  • Capital Structuring, Resource Mobilization and Management
  • New Age Marketing and After Sales Services
  • Using IT and 8 Deep Technologies
  • Strategies for Disruption
  • Legal and Regulatory Compliance

SECTION B: THE ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM [15%]

2. The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem - 15%
  • Macroeconomic Environment and Emerging Dimensions of Business Ecosystems
  • Formation and Incorporation of a Legal Entity
  • Legal and Intellectual Property Rights
  • Procurement to Pay
  • Order to Cash
  • Transaction to Reporting
  • Working Capital Management
  • Market Dynamics
  • Government Policies, Subsidies, Incentives, Tax Laws
  • Trends in Entrepreneurship

SECTION C: IDEA TO ACTION [15%]

3. Idea to Action - 15%
  • Monetizing Ideas
  • Bootstrapping
  • Preparation of Project Report
  • Funding Options for Start-up, including Crowd Funding
  • Using Data Analytics to Advantage
  • Building a Sustainable Revenue Model and Periodical Business Plan
  • Launching Sustainable Impact Initiatives
  • From Start up to MNC
 

SECTION D: VALUE ADDITION [15%]

4. Value Addition - 15%
  • Process of Innovation
  • Design Thinking
  • Lean Start-Up & Customer Validation
  • Generating Market Traction
  • Positioning and Packaging
  • Start-up Models
 

SECTION E: SCALE UP [10%]

5. Scalability, Scaling up and Stabilisation of Sustainable Business - 10%
  • Business Scalability –Validation and Roadmap
  • Preparation of Pitching Document and giving Elevator Pitches
  • Funding Strategies and Funding Series including crowd funding
  • Start-up Valuation – Pre-money, Milestone and Investors’ Exit Point
  • Scaling up and Stabilisation of Business
  • Sustainability Management
  • Exit Strategies of Fund Houses
  • Gathering Critical Mass through Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Negotiations at each Milestone
 

SECTION F: RISK MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES [10%]

6. Risk Management Strategies - 10%
  • Predicting, Calculating and Mitigating Enterprise Risks
  • Application of COSO Framework for Risk-Enabled Performance Management
  • Predicting, Calculating and Overcoming Financial Risks
  • Project Monitoring and Controlling
  • Increasing Coping Mechanisms and Risk Mitigation
  • Establishing Internal Checks and Balances as a Process
  • Transformation from Risk Managing to Risks Enabled Organisation
  • Start-up Audit
  • Bouncing Back from Failures
 

SECTION G: LEADERSHIP [10%]

7. Leadership - 10%
  • Leading Mission-Driven Ventures and Organizations
  • Business Ethics and Best Practices
  • Forecasting and Planning - Building Capabilities to see Deeper, Wider and Faster
  • Developing Mission, Vision and Goals
  • Learning smart ways to create Competitive Advantage
  • Learn to deal with Ups and Downs and Lead Organizational Change
  • Building a Motivated Team
  • Designing Strategies to suit the Business Needs and Ecosystem
 

SECTION H: TYPES OF NEW AGE BUSINESS [10%]

8. Types of New Age Business - 10%
  • FinTech, EdTech, HealthCare, AgriTech, Defence, IT, Space, Robotics, Digital Transformation & VBA etc.
  • Agropreneurship
  • Women Entrepreneurship
  • Family Run Business
  • MSME
  • Generation Transfer Transaction
  • Social Entrepreneurship
  • Emerging Markets