Entrep Module 5 SLM Viability
Entrep Module 5 SLM Viability
Entrepreneurship
      Quarter 1 – Module 5:
    Developing a Business Plan:
   Screening Proposed Solutions
   In this module, you will develop a Business Plan and screen proposed solutions
   based     on     viability,   profitability   and   customer     requirements
   (TLE_ICTAN11/12PC-Ia-1).
What I Know
   Let us know of your prior understanding about screening proposed solution/s based
on viability, profitability and customer requirements.
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_______5. The ability to select and offer the right products or services in competitive
          market will determine success in business.
_______6. Profitability means not losing nor gaining in business.
_______7. Viability is the ability of the business to earn a profit.
_______8. Revenue refers to the total collections from customer payments.
_______9. New products needs customer evaluation.
_______10. A new product would need customer viewpoint after it‘s launched in the
         market.
_______11.Venturing into business, an entrepreneur must look into how it should be
         funded.
_______12. Savings and wise investments are characteristics of successful entrepreneurship.
_______13. A viable business is profitable.
_______14. Customer requirements is the specified product feature the customer wants.
_______15. Capital can be acquired by making loans.
What’s In
Instruction: Read each statement properly. Encircle the letter that best corresponds to
the statement.
   1. Among the statements below, what is not considered a basic factor in making
      market research?
        a. competition                 c. loyalty of product users
        b. size of the market          d. geographical and cultural elements
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 2. In making a decision to make a business venture one should give utmost
    consideration on _______________.
       a. profit                      c. product/service
       b. market needs                d. business growth
 3. What is needed to be done so as not to waste time, effort and money before
    launching a product?
       a. focus on wallet share, not market share
       b. accept the market as a harsh, not fair judge
       c. put your ideas to the test
       d. pick proven categories then find your niche
 5. In every business, _____ is inevitable and they are called rivals in the industry.
        a. entrepreneur                   c. profiteering
       b. competitor                        d. competition
What’s New
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       Bottled Sinaing na Tulingan (braised tuna) —what else, became their first
product. Through the couple‘s efforts, they have extended the shelf -life of sinaing na
tulingan from a week to 2 years! How‘s that for a noteworthy and innovation-driven
kwentong negosyo?
         Since joining trade fairs sponsored by the Department of Trade and Industry
(DTI) beginning 2015, the bottled Sinaing na Tulingan never fails to be included in the
list of nominees for Most Innovative Product. It received 3 rd place in the Most Innovative
Category at the DTI sponsored ‗Kalakal CALABARZON 2015‘ regional trade fair.
       ―I know that we are on the way to success when customers keep coming back
for more. They also tell us how much they love our product. We have established
institutional market outlets through the 50 branches of Robinson‘s Supermarket and
over 40 branches of Shopwise paving the way for more exposure and wider reach to a
bigger customer base,‖ shares Nestor.
       Since the first product, they have come up with two others– ginataang tawilis
(indigenous freshwater fish found only in Taal Lake, cooked         with coconut
  milk) and ampalaya (bitter gourd) atshara (pickled). All you need to add to the
menu is hot steamy rice to enjoy a delicious Filipino meal. Yum!
The couple looks forward to a partnership with the Department of Science and
Technology (DOST). This partnership will enable them to acquire advanced technology
and packaging equipment. Innovate for success could very well be the motto of Nestor
and Johna .
Processing Questions:
1. What became as the primary objective and mission of the couple in putting up the
   business?
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2. What could be the reason why they‘ve seen their business idea viable in terms of
   materials to be used and its concept?
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3. In what way are their products different and innovative from their competitors?
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    6. How many years is their business at present? What are their future plans for the
       business?
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    7. State at least four (4) reasons/characteristics that, in your opinion, made Kusina
       Batangueña         a       viable     business          and       still    growing.
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What is It
          Creating solutions for an identified market need through product and/or service
  offerings is an entrepreneur‘s way of spotting opportunity/ies of doing business.
  However, conceived solutions need to be carefully evaluated as to viability in order to
  avoid more problems to solve and worst make you leave the idea after spending time and
  money.
          Viability is defined as the ability to survive or persist; the quality of being able to
  happen or having a reasonable chance of success. In a business sense that ability to
  survive is ultimately linked to financial performance and position. It also refers to the
  practical potential of start-up business idea to survive and grow in the marketplace.
  Viability of the business is likewise measured by its long-term survival and its ability to
  sustain profits and continue doing business over a period of time.
      1. Objectives or goals of the business serves as its direction. It must be clearly set
         by the management in its Mission and Vision as a guiding tool for its plans and
         programs to motion the enterprise to profitability.
      2. Manpower or human resource refers to the people who work for the business
         and the entrepreneur. As they are an important factor for the business success,
         they must be given training, if necessary, and orientation of the company‘s
         operation, Employees must be motivated to perform better, be persistent, must
         know the management, and focused in the mission and vision of the business.
         Their condition must be looked into by top management.
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      to create more satisfied customers which is essential in creating more loyal repeat
      customers.
     1. Uniqueness. How do you stand out from others? It doesn‘t necessarily mean
        you have to invent or create an entirely new idea for your target market but, it
        should be advantageously different and stand out from your competitors. Most
        successful businesses have a strong, unique concept and a clear
        identity.
     2. Financing the venture. How much would you need to finance your new
        venture? Every business need money for costs and other expenses in starting
        a business whether, buying or renting space and equipment, tools and basic
        materials, or the like. You need to make realistic estimation and know where
        to obtain your budget. Have a good finance understanding. The amount needed
        could be from you own money, loan, or from a willing investor.
        Sources of Capital/Funds for the business:
         1. Internal source
            a. Savings and assets (personal properties) of a starting entrepreneur
            b. Sources from internal operation (business revenue)
            c. Short-term sources of debt financing (banks, investment/lending
               institutions)
         2. External source
               a. Long-term sources of debt financing
               b. Bank loans
         3. Other   sources
               a.   Partners‘ contribution for partnership organization
               b.   Stock options for Corporations/ equity financing
               c.   Liquidation of assets
                Even if sources come from other people, the entrepreneur must not lose
         control in the management of the business and carefully choose partners or
         investors so as not to lose focus of his projected venture due to interference of
         partners.
     3. Customer. Who’s going to buy? Knowing who will be buying your product or
        service is important for your business success because you would know where
        to find them. Who are your customers? Define your customers whether they
        are students, busy professionals, mothers, teenagers, etc. Know your customer
        profile to better understand what they need and afford to pay.
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      competitive advantage of the venture? Use your uniqueness identified in step
      one to find ways to outdo your competitors.
  5. Economic Mood: Where are consumers' mind right now? What are the concerns
     that affect their spending behavior? Your business' success can greatly depend
     on economic mood. Gauge the state of the economic environment and think of
     how it relates to your new business venture. Are consumers cutting expenses
     or spending more? Even in this trying times of pandemic and economic
     downturn, can be an opportunity if you can meet the mood of the consumer. If
     your business idea doesn't fit the current trends in spending, think of ways
     you can fit it into today's needs.
  8. Continuing Cash Flow. Do you have a proper financial plan? Before you open
     up shop, prepare a detailed financial plan. This is in preparation if the business
     will already be booming and more supplies and costs will be needed to keep
     with the demand. Plan at least for your business' first year, so that you get rid
     of possible hindrances - especially financial ones.
  9. Basic Feasibility. Is it legal? Can the product or service work? There are legal
     requirements that needs to be complied for opening a business. Make sure that
     your business idea will not violate government requirements and proper
     documents can be legally obtained. The product or service offered must be
     doable, legal, complies the standard of safety and health, and is relevant to
             solve a need.
What’s More
      Great! With the discussions that we had, let us check how viable your proposed
business ventures are.
Instructions: Choose three (3) business ideas you have in mind. Below is the viability
checklist that will be used in each of your proposed business venture. Write your
business idea besides the Business Viability Checklist. Put a check mark for those
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 item that is present in your proposed business venture and each check is equivalent
 to one (1) point. Your business idea with the highest score have more chance of
 viability when ventured into business.
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     2         Screen Solution/s based on
                    Profitability
       Good day students! In our previous lesson, we had learned on how to screen
solution/s based on viability of the business. However, how do we know if the
business venture we have in mind or is currently doing, profitable?
What’s New
Instructions: Guess the missing letters to complete the word below. After guessing
the correct word, make a concept map and try to think any words that can be
associated to the word being guessed. Write your answer on the space provided below.
__ R __ __ I T __ __ I __ I T __
2.    What do you think is the connection of those words you identified in concept map
      to the guessed word?
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      Areas of Assessment                5                              4                            3                      2
  Ideas                     Presents ideas in an original Presents ideas in a consistent Ideas are too general   Ideas are vague or
                            manner                        manner                                                 unclear
  Organization              Strong and organized         Organized beg/mid/end          Some organization;       No organization; lack
                            beg/mid/end                                                 attempt at a beg/mid/end beg/mid/end
  Understanding             Writing shows strong         Writing shows a clear          Writing shows adequate   Writing shows little
                            understanding                understanding                  understanding            understanding
Rubrics:
What is It
     Many entrepreneur start their business partly because of the satisfaction that
they own a business, becoming their own boss and of course, to generate profits.
Emerging and existing entrepreneurs need to know the financial aspect of the
business and be critical as to the profitability of the business venture.
Profitability is a business‘ ability to gain profit from its business activities and
investment. Though profit is closely related to profitability, the latter is but, a
measurement of business efficiency – and ultimately it‘s success or failure. A further
definition of profitability is a business's ability to produce a return on an investment
based on its resources. To measure profitability, we use:
  •     Payback period refers to the allotted time, usually number of years that an
        investment is recovered. Simply put, the payback period is the length of time
        an investment reaches a break-even point.
                                                   Initial Investment/Capital
                    Payback Period =
                                                                       Profit
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   •    Return on sales (ROS) also called as Net Profit Margin measures the overall
        operating results of an entity. The measure considers all income recognized
        and all expenses incurred during the period. Return on Sales is a financial ratio
        that shows how efficiently a company is able to generate operating profit from
        its revenue. It is used to measure the performance of the company by analyzing
        what percentage of the revenue eventually results in profit for the company
        rather than being spent towards paying the company‘s operating cost.
Profit is what is left of the business revenue, income or sales after it pays all
expenses. Directly related expense to revenue include wages, expenses in producing
a product, operating expenses, debt-reduction payments and other expenses related
to the conduct of the business activities.
Break- even happens when there is no profit nor loss after deducting expenses from
revenue.
          Profit = Expense
Illustrative example:
        Kuya Keeno lost his job because of the pandemic and he wanted to earn
some money
        On March 16, 2020 he decided to make frozen lumpiang shanghai to sell
online. His initial capital in starting his business is ₱ 640.00. Upon posting it online,
all lumpia were sold. More friends ordered and recommended his lumpia so he
decided to make a business out of it. Below is a record of the result of his business
transactions for 5 days. Let us check if he gained profit or not.
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     1,860.00
=
     3,900.00
                X 100 %
= 48%
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          Operating Profit
             Return on Sales =                             X 100 %
Net Sales
3,200.00 – 1,340.00
= 3, 200.00 X 100 %
                  1,860.00
                                                  X 100 %
                                   3,200.00
                                                              = 3, 200.0058 %
                             Initial Capital
          Payback Period =
     Profit
                                 640.00
                             =
                                 360.00
                          = 1.78 or 2 days
     Analysis:
    Is the business venture of Keeno profitable? Yes.
Why is it profitable? Answers: He was able to earn back his capital within 2 days
 Venturing into business means needing financial resources, money. However be the
size of the organization, money is needed for its business operation. Being able to wisely
invest money in a profitable operation and earning savings, are characteristics of a
successful entrepreneur.
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                   What’s More
Activity 4 – Am I Earning?
  Instructions: Solve the problem below and make a justification after if the business manifests
  profitability or not. Write your answer on the space provided below.
  BNSF Inc. started its operations with 300,000.00php initial investment and has following
  items on its financial statements. Calculate for the missing items on the table and answer
  what is further asked below using the formula we recently discussed.
Total
   Questions:
1. What is the rate of Return on Investment? Show solution on the space provided.
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2. In what quarter did the company experience break-even? Why is it called breakeven
   point?
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 Lesson        Screen Solution/s based
3 on Customer Requirement
       Good day students! In our previous lesson, we had learned on how to screen
solution/s based on profitability of the business.
    In today‘s lesson, we will screen solution/s based on customer requirement.
What’s New
       I know that you already had knowledge on viability and profitability for a
 business venture to be successful.
        Now, let‘s start this module by putting some twist on our activity. I want you
 to think outside of the box to give the possible answers on the activity below.
 Instructions: Let‘s say that you are a consumer who is very particular on the features
 and benefits of products and services for your satisfaction. With the
 products/services listed below, try to list down your requirements for you to be
 convinced to buy/avail the products/services you want.
Soap
Shampoo
Cellphone
Masks
Movie
Bus ride
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    1. What do you consider in identifying your requirement/s for you to buy/avail the
       product/service you want?
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Rubrics:
          Content/Ideas      - 10pts
          Organization       - 5pts
          Coherence of Ideas - 5pts
                          Total
                - 20pts
What is It
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  as a product, then various service requirements can take the form of output
  requirements. For other products such as gadgets, the product specifications like
  the loudness and clarity of a pair of speakers becomes its output requirements.
2. Satisfiers
   There are the requirements that customers express their desire for, explicitly. If
   you offer better or   more of these satisfiers, then the customers will appreciate
   it more and will be more satisfied. For example, the assortment of desserts in a
   buffet; the customers might feel that they‘re entitled to at least two as they‘ve paid
   heavily for the buffet and will be happier if they get four.
3. Delighters
   These are the extras or the add ons. Absence of these will not leave the customer
   dissatisfied; in fact, the absence of these characteristics might not even be
   noticed. But adding these would increase the customer‘s satisfaction greatly and
   will leave them delighted. For example, you order a-la-carte in a restaurant and
                get complimentary wine.
                What’s More
                      Good job! Now, let us check whether your proposed business
venture will pass the requirement/s set by your customers.
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Additional Proposals
  Proposed                                              Remarks for
                                        Customer
   Business       Features/Benefits                   Improvement and
                                      Requirement/s
   Venture                                              Suggestions
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               What I Have Learned
Instructions: Please complete the following statement. Use the space provided below.
          Rubrics:
                Content/Ideas         - 10pts
                Organization          - 5pts
                Coherence of Ideas    - 5pts
                Total                 - 20pts
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             What I Can Do
            Hooray! Now, that you have learned on how to screen solutions based
           on viability, profitability and customer requirement, it‘s time to assess
our proposed business venture.
Instructions: Choose only one business idea from the 3 you had presented earlier.
Complete the template below by filling-out the necessary information about your
proposed business venture. Make it sure that viability, profitability, and customer
requirement were highlighted.
Proposed Business
Venture
                                          Viability Factor        √
Viability                               Uniqueness
Instructions: Put a check
mark on the factors that                Financing
are present to your                     Customer
proposed business                       Competition
venture.
                                        Economic Mood
                                        Timing
                                        Marketing
                                        Feasibility
Profitability
Customer Requirements
Rubrics:
Instruction: Read each statement carefully and if you think it is True write the word
TRUE and if you think it‘s False, write FALSE on the blanks provided.
   _______1. Entrepreneurs who come up with an idea for a business, have a good
             business plan, have the needed capital are most likely to succeed.
   _______2. A new product would need customer viewpoint after it‘s launched in the
             market.
   _______3. Venturing into business, an entrepreneur must look into how it should be
             funded.
   _______4. Savings and wise          investments are characteristics of        successful
             entrepreneurship.
   _______5. A viable business is profitable.
   _______6. Customer requirements is the specified product feature the customer wants.
   _______7. Capital can be acquired by making loans.
   _______8. Understanding the need of the customers include guessing what they want.
   _______9. Identifying what you can offer the market must be recognized before
             identifying market needs.
   _______10. A business shows viability if it does not gain profit.
   _______11. The ability to select and offer the right products or services in a competitive
             market will determine success in business.
   _______12. Profitability means not losing nor gaining in business.
   _______13. Viability is the ability of the business to earn a profit.
   _______14. Revenue refers to the total collections from customer payments.
   _______15. New products needs customer evaluation.
Additional Activities
    Congratulations! Job well done. You have reached the end of this module with flying
   colors. At this time, you need to present a documentation of your actual survey
   activity. In the space provided, post a picture and a copy of your survey guide duly
   filled-out by your interviewee. If in case you don‘t have a printer, send the picture
   through messenger to your subject teacher.
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