Entrepreneurship Development and Small Business Enterprises : For VTU (Paperback)

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• Express teaches correct pronunciation through phonetic drills, exercises on syllable and stress in words, eventually leading to correct tone and intonation.
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• Comprehension tests factual recall and inferential understanding.
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• Express teaches correct pronunciation through phonetic drills, exercises on syllable and stress in words, eventually leading to correct tone and intonation.
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• Express teaches correct pronunciation through phonetic drills, exercises on syllable and stress in words, eventually leading to correct tone and intonation.
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• Well-balanced selection of prose andpoetry encourages the learners to develop an extensive reading habit.
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• Relate section suggests an additional reading list, provides information on authors and poets, the various genres, rhetorical devices, etc.
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• Word Power lists the meanings of all the difficult words; some word meanings are accompanied with visuals to aid effective retention and association.
• Comprehension tests factual recall and inferential understanding.
• Word Wise enriches the learner’s vocabulary through a variety of interesting exercises.
• Express teaches correct pronunciation through phonetic drills, exercises on syllable and stress in words, eventually leading to correct tone and intonation.
• Language in Use deals with fundamental elements of grammar and their usage.
• Create initiates the learner into the world of independent composition.

• Warm up is a pre-reading section that kindles the learner’s interest on the theme of the lesson.
• Word Power lists the meanings of all the difficult words; some word meanings are accompanied with visuals to aid effective retention and association.
• Comprehension tests factual recall and inferential understanding.
• Word Wise enriches the learner’s vocabulary through a variety of interesting exercises.
• Express teaches correct pronunciation through phonetic drills, exercises on syllable and stress in words, eventually leading to correct tone and intonation.
• Language in Use deals with fundamental elements of grammar and their usage.
• Create initiates the learner into the world of independent composition.

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    Umang H Shah is working as Assistant Professor, in RAMANBHAI PATEL COLLEGE OF PHARMACY, Charotar University of Science & Technology, CHARUSAT campus, Changa, Gujarat. Ashok H Akabari is working as Lecturer in C.K.Pithawalla Institute of Pharmaceutical Science & Research, Surat, Gujarat. Amit Kumar Baser is working as Research Assistant in FDD-NDDS Department, Sun Pharmaceutical Ind. Ltd., Vadodara, Gujarat.Features
    
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    K. N. Krishnaswamy is a consultant and former professor at the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He has nearly three decades of teaching and research experience in management. Appa Iyer Sivakumar is an associate professor at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and a fellow of the Singapore–Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alliance. He was also associated with Gintic Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore. M. Mathirajan is Principal Research Scientist at the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He was also a visiting consultant at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman.Features
    
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    • Business Insights and Business Snapshots present useful facts and rules of thumb, and provide insights into financial practices in organizations.
    • Solved Examples, Solved Problems and Excel Worksheets help enhance students’ understanding of numerical and MS Excel-based problems.
    • Concept Check questions, Classroom Exercises, Unsolved Problems and Case Applications assist student learning by providing ample opportunity for practice.
    • Includes four University model question papers and solutions for two of them
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    • Thorough coverage: The coverage includes the conceptual framework on entrepreneurship development and management of small business enterprises, as well as modern enterprises, cottage and village industries
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    • Case study–centric: Real-life cases in the Indian context for discussion and analysis Includes two university model question papers with solutions
      
      Table of Contents:
      
    • About the Author
    • Preface
      1. Modern Small Business Enterprises
      2. Entrepreneurship
      3. Women Entrepreneurs
      4. Institutions Supporting Small Business Enterprises
      5. Setting Up a Small Business Enterprise
      6. Family Business
      7. Sickness in Small Business Enterprises
      8. Strategic Management in Small Business
      9. Financial Management in Small Business
      10. Marketing Management in Small Business
      11. Production Management in Small Business
      12. Human Resource Management in Small Business
    • Model Question Papers