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On a scale of one to ten, having a good business strategy rates about a fifteen!

The determination of a strategy is rooted in determining how a company stacks up against basic market forces, how it can defend itself against these forces and how it can influence these forces. Fortunately, Michael E. Porter in his article How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy defined these market forces for us. Known as Porter’s 5 forces they consist of:

Tackling today’s complex and interconnected business issues requires knowledge and expertise across multiple disciplines:

An entrepreneur can be defined as a person who starts a business venture through the identification and exploitation of an opportunity, by gathering resources and bearing the risk of failure (Nieuwenhuizen & Nieman 2009:9). Similarly, entrepreneurship is a venture undertaken by an entrepreneur who assumes the risk of the discovery and exploitation of an opportunity (Wolf, Kaudela-Baum & Meissner 2011:2

Accounting is the language of businesses. Those who wish to value companies and invest

The annual report is designed primarily to satisfy the needs of existing and possible future shareholders for information about a company.

Profit and finance are two broad strands interwoven in the overall management of successful business organisations today. They also provide the basis for the analysis of a company. Each strand is equally important and both must be followed. Analysing a company’s profitability without any reference to its financial position is of little value.

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