Small business consulting

SMALL BUSINESSES - are normally privately owned corporations, partnerships, or sole

proprietorships. What businesses are defined as "small" in terms of government support and tax
policy varies depending on the country and industry. Small businesses range from 15 employees
under the Australian Fair Work Act 2009, 50 employees according to the definition used by
the European Union, and fewer than 500 employees to qualify for many U.S. Small Business
Administration programs. Small businesses can also be classified according to other methods
such as sales, assets, or net profits.

Small businesses are common in many countries, depending on the economic system in
operation. Typical examples include: convenience stores, other small shops (such as
a bakery or delicatessen), hairdressers, tradesmen, lawyers, accountants, restaurants,guest
houses, photographers, small-scale manufacturing, and online businesses, such as web design
and programming, etc.

Micro-enterprise. In general, a microenterprise is considered a small business employing 10

people or less, and have a capital asset of less than PhP 3,000,000. Internationally, most
microenterprises are family businesses employing one or two persons. These microentrepreneurs
operate microenterprises by choice

Small and Medium-sized enterprises (SMEs; sometimes also small and medium enterprises)
or small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are businesses whose personnel numbers fall
below certain limits. The abbreviation "SME" is used in the European Union and by international
organizations such as the World Bank, the United Nations and the World Trade
Organization (WTO). Small enterprises outnumber large companies by a wide margin and also
employ many more people. SMEs are also said to be responsible for driving innovation and
competition in many economic sectors.

A Large Enterprise is a company employing over 5,000 people. A company with fewer than
5,000 employees but an annual turnover greater than 1.5 billion Euros and a balance sheet total
of more than 2 billion Euros is also considered to be a large enterprise.

COMMON PROBLEM OF SMALL BUSINESSES IN THE PHILIPPINES

External problems
External problems are countless, including the state of the economy, the high cost of
insurance, taxes, red tape, health & safety, lack of bank lending, competition within the UK and
from abroad, transport issues, employee skills gaps and shortages, and the list just goes on.
Cash
Finding it and managing the cash flow. It’s hard to get and there is never enough. If you are a
fast growth company you can rapidly outgrow your available sources, if you are an
underperforming company you can’t get it.

Lack of a clear plan

Most businesses don’t know how to plan. Lack of a plan worsens the cash problem by wasting
cash chasing tempting diversions, and throwing money at problems. Equally important
is revising your plan according to changing economic and business conditions and to ensure
your survival in the recession.

Ineffective leadership
This issue takes many forms. It is frequently in the form of depth of leadership. The founder of
the company is too much hands-on and a) does not concentrate enough on his primary role as a
leader rather than a manager; and b) fails to enlist support of competent managers and staff
behind him or her either through recruitment or by outsourcing. This eventually causes the
company to stop growing and eventually could lead to failure. Directors should always
remember their core role and responsibilities.

Sales/marketing effectiveness
This leads back to planning and leadership. Many businesses have not taken the time to decide
what their USP is. They try to compete in conflicting areas, such as lowest price and highest
service.
Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi, and other life forms for food, fiber, bio
fuel, medicinal and other products used to sustain and enhance human life.[1] Agriculture was
the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming
of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the development of civilization. The
study of agriculture is known as agricultural science. The history of agriculture dates back
thousands of years, and its development has been driven and defined by greatly
different climates, cultures, and technologies. However, all farming generally relies on
techniques to expand and maintain the lands that are suitable for raising domesticated species.
For plants, this usually requires some form of irrigation, although there are methods of dryland
farming. Livestock are raised in a combination of grassland-based and landless systems, in an
industry that covers almost one-third of the world's ice- and water-free area. In the developed
world, industrial agriculture based on large-scale monoculture has become the dominant system
of modern farming, although there is growing support for sustainable agriculture,
including permaculture and organic agriculture.

Agriculture in the Philippines employs 47% of the Filipino workforce as of 2013, according to
World Bank statistics. Agriculture accounts for 12% of Filipino GDP as of 2013, according to
the World Bank.

Different types of agriculture in Philippines

Rice
Sugar
Coconuts
Fruits
Corn
Rubber