After completing Home Business: Raising Financing the user should be able to:

	Write a business plan
	Prepare financial statements as supporting documentation
	Plan for personal expenses while starting a business
	Evaluate financing options
	Decide whether to use personal resources for financing
	Prepare for the loan application process

Creating a Business Plan

	Why you need a business plan
	Writing your business plan
	The ingredients of your plan

Supporting Your Financial Plan

	Financial statements: The heart of your plan
	Supporting documents for your plan
	Getting help

Making Ends Meet

	How your start-up costs stack up
	Personal expenses
	Operating expenses

Raising Money

	Borrowing
	Giving away the business
	Free money
	What type of financing is best for you?

Using Personal Resources for Funds

	Be your own banker
	Go "on margin" against your investments
	Credit cards for cash
	Use the nest egg you live in
	Take a loan from your life insurance
	Use your retirement plan for a loan
	Is this loan deductible?

Borrowing Funds

	Getting a loan: Personalize it
	Let your business do the borrowing
	Plodding through the paperwork
	Help from big brother
	Special certification

This course has the following features:

	Exercises that allow users to explore how a course topic applies to their own real-world situations
	A file containing the text of the exercises
	A glossary
	A Skill Assessment