...PROLOGUE: An MSME (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise) is defined by RBI/GOI differently for the Manufacturing and the Services Sector, as follows: * Manufacturing Sector: Manufacturing sector refers to enterprises engaged in manufacture or production, processing or preservation of goods. The definition of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises under the manufacturing sector is as below: | | * A micro enterprise is an enterprise where investment in plant and machinery does not exceed Rs.25 lakh; | | * A small enterprise is an enterprise where the investment in plant and machinery is more than Rs.25 lakh but does not exceed Rs.5 crore; and | | * A medium enterprise is an enterprise where the investment in plant and machinery is more than Rs.5 crore but does not exceed Rs.10 crore. | * Services Sector: Services sector refers to enterprises engaged in providing or rendering of services. These will include small road & water transport operators, small business and professional & self-employed.The definition of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises under the services sector is as below: | | * A microenterprise is an enterprise where the investment in equipment does not exceed Rs.10 lakh; | | * A smallenterprise is an enterprise where the investment in equipment is more than Rs.10 lakh but does not exceed Rs.2 crore; and | | * A medium enterprise is an enterprise where the investment in equipment is more than Rs.2 crore but does not...
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...Chinese Small to Medium Sized Companies Abstract In the recent years, small to medium sized companies (SMEs) play an important role in most countries over the world. It has been a vital policy issue for governments to deal with these companies to increase development of economy. The financial difficulties faced by SMEs have restricted SMEs’ survival and development. SMEs exist a series of financial problems. This article focus on how to obtain effective financial source and dealing with the difficulties in raising finance for Chinese SMEs. Key words: Small and medium-sized Companies (SMEs); Financing. Introduction SMEs are the necessary power for economy growth. As Beck and Demirguc-Kunt (2005, p2932) said that there was robust partial connection between the importance of SMEs in manufacturing and economic development. According to Ayyagari (2007), formal SMEs contribute to 50% of GDP on average in developing countries and World Bank views SMEs as a core element in developing economy and employment. In China, the number of registered SMEs exceeds 40 million, accounting for more than 99 per cent of enterprises. As a private sector, SME has become a driving force since the economy began to recover in 1978 (Fan, 2007). And it makes up more than 70 percept of the GDP. According to Brookfield, SMEs can be regarded as unquoted small businesses and a medium for self-employment of the owners that are organized by few individuals, typically a family group and act as a medium for self-employment...
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...(405) Sec: 01 Introduction : Small and medium-sized enterprises sometimes also called small and medium enterprises (SMEs) or small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are businesses whose personnel numbers fall below certain limits. These are the most common businesses found across most of the world’s economies. The World Bank Review on Small Business Activities establishes the commitment of the World Bank Group to the development of the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector as a core element in its strategy to foster economic growth, employment and poverty alleviation. In the context of Bangladesh, the development of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) can be considered as a vital instrument for poverty alleviation and ensure the rapid industrialization. So we can say that the role of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) is indispensable for overall economic development of a country particularly for developing countries like Bangladesh. It has drawn a lot of interest among policy makers, academics, businessmen and people in general. Government of Bangladesh has highlighted the importance of SME in the Industrial Policy-2005. SMEs have been identified by the Ministry of Industries as a ‘thrust sector’. As the SME sector is labor intensive, it can create more employment opportunities. For this reason government of Bangladesh has recognized SME as a poverty alleviation tool. As a result they will enhance the standard of living in rural areas. SMEs (Around the world) : Although...
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...Study of Small- and Medium-Scale Industrial Development in Ondo State, Nigeria
Adejuyigbe Samuel Babatope and Dahunsi Olurotimi Akintunde
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Federal University of Technology Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria E-mail:
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...FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE CREDIT AVAILMENT OF SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES (SMEs) IN TANAUAN CITY A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of College of Accountancy Business, Economics and International and Hospitality Management Batangas State University-JPLPC,Malvar Campus Malvar, Batangas In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirement for the Degree Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Major in Financial Management By: Chona E. Maquiñana Lorie May R. Catimbang Jonie E. Mendoza October 2013 APPROVAL SHEET This research paper entitled “Factors that influence the credit availment of Small and Medium Enterprise (SME’s) in Tanauan City” as prepared and submitted by ChonaE. Maquiñana, Jonie E. Mendoza and Lorie May R. Catimbang, in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Business Administration has been examined and is recommended for Oral Examination. ________________________________ KRISTINE ABIGAIL S. DE LUNA, MBA Thesis Adviser Approved by the Committee on Oral Examination with the grade of __________. PANEL OF EXAMINERS _________________________________ ELISA S. DIAZ, MBA, (DBA Candidate) Chairman ____________________ ___________________ JESSIE S. LEONG, Ph. D. LUCINA S. LAT, MBE Member Member Date of oral Examination________________ Accepted...
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...Introduction The Small and Medium scale Enterprise (SME) are recognized worldwide as engines of economic growth. The commonly perceived merits often emphasized for their promotion especially in the developing countries like Bangladesh include their relatively high labor intensity, dependence on indigenous skills and technology, contributions to entrepreneurship development and innovativeness and growth of industrial linkages. The case for fostering SME growth in Bangladesh is irrefutable as these industries offer bright prospects for creating large-scale employment and income earning opportunities at relatively low cost for the unemployed especially in the rural areas strengthening the efforts towards achieving high and sustained economic growth which are critically important prerequisites for triggering an exit from endemic poverty and socio-economic deprivation. These promotional arguments for the SMEs, while universally emphasized are often put forward by their ardent advocates in a small versus large context and thus arouse serious debates concerning their economic viability. Much of such controversies may, however breakdown if the intrinsic virtues specific to SMEs and unavailable to large-scale industries are correctly identified and carefully exploited. A combined interaction of the forces of product-mix, location factors, technological advantages and market advantages create opportunities for SMEs to grow and prosper at all levels of development which are often ignored...
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...Chapter-1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Introduction The role of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) loan is indispensable for overall economic development of a country particularly for developing countries like Bangladesh. Since this sector is labor intensive with short gestation period, it is capable of increasing national income as well as rapid employment generation; achieving Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) especially eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, gender equality and women empowerment. SME sector has played a vital role in economic development of some prosperous countries of Asia. Terming SME as ‘employment generating machine’ they stressed on SME development for higher economic growth, narrowing the gap of income inequality and poverty alleviation. The present government has also put much emphasis on the development of SME sector considering it as the driving force for industrialization. I have selected the Mercantile Bank. Students are required to prepare an internship report under the guidance of a supervisor on a selected subject matter to highlighting his experience and to conduct an in depth analysis on the subject matter. During my internship period I got the opportunity to work in SME department and I had an interest to prepare my internship report on the Small & Medium Enterprise (SME) Loan of Mercantile Bank Ltd. My supervisor Mr. Emran Ahmed, Lecturer, Department of Business Administration, World University of Bangladesh has allowed me to prepare...
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...OPTIONS FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM SCALE ENTERPRISES IN NIGERIA BY SAS ARUWA BY SAS ARUWA Department of Economics and Management Sciences, Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna Abstract Government has identified the need for the development of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SME). One of such sectoral strategies is the introduction and pursuit of policies such as concessionary financing to encourage and strengthen the growth of SMEs in Nigeria. In this paper, a random sample of 10 formal/ informal finance sources and 20 SMEs in 6 selected Small and Medium industries in Kaduna and Abuja have been studied. We found that financing options for SMEs are numerous but access to these funds has been difficult inspite of several government initiatives. We also found that the Small and Medium Industries Equity Investments Scheme (SMIEIS) fund lacks standard guideline for fund disbursement, the unregulated informal finance institutions finance the SMEs much more than the formal sources and the informal sources make up more than half of the SMEs’ mix of funds. It is recommended that the informal source of financing is a potentially important source of micro financing. Savings in them should be further encouraged through regulation, government intervention by way of active participation of community and development banks in local business associations. SMEs should consider all financing options that maximize the value of the business enterprise. 1.1 INTRODUCTION The significant role Small and Medium...
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...The SME products and functions of Prime Bank Limited [pic] Bangladesh University of business and technology (BUBT) The SME products and functions of Prime Bank Limited Prepared for: Md. zakir Hossain Lecturer Department of finance Bangladesh University of business and technology (BUBT) Prepared by: The extreme’z |SL No. | Name |Roll no. | |01. |Md. Safiul hasan |10113101056 | |02. |Ayesha siddika |10113101057 | |03. |Md. imadul haque khan |10113101075 | |04. |Fatema-tuz-zohora Tama |10113101077 | |05. |Farzana Anower |10113101090 | Intake: 25th section: 02 program: B.B.A Date of submission: 10th September, 2011 Date: 10th September, 2011 MD. zakir hossain Lecturer Department of finance Bangladesh University Of business and technology Dear Sir, It is our pleasure to submit the report on “The SME products and functions of Prime Bank Limited” as requirement of BUS-101...
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...Institutions In 2008, the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act was passed and certain funding structures facilities were put in place such as the Youth Fund through the Commercial Bank of Zimbabwe, (CBZ), Kurera/Ukondla fund through CABS and Meikles Youth Empowerment facility (GOZ, 2008). The TREE (Training for Rural Economic Empowerment) programme which is an informal apprentice training is meant to improve the skills and quality of products produced which would enhance the ability of SMEs to compete locally, regionally and in some cases internationally, (Kasukuwere 2013). All these initiatives created and enabled environment for entrepreneurial activity in Zimbabwe. Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises and Cooperatives Development 2002 In an effort to ensure the development of SMEs, the Government of Zimbabwe established the establishment of the Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises and Cooperatives Development (MSMECD), the then Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprise Development...
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...and Business Management March 18-20, 2013 Problems affecting the growth of small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in India Lubina Zaidi Lubina.zaidi@gmail.com Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) play a pivotal role in the development of the country. It has made significant contribution to industrial production, export and employment generation. In developing countries as well as developed countries they are important from the point of view of employment generations, which is very important in countries like India with huge backlog of unemployment in the urban sections of the economy. It has been observed that their composition depends upon the way the production is being organized in the economy .However in India Government deliberately planned the growth of SMEs to achieve certain economic and non-economic objectives. India has registered a consistent high economic growth (6-9%) over the last decade and was able to survive and sustain world recession triggered in 2008. For the sustainability of this kind of growth proper nurturing of SME sector is imperative. This paper will detail various challenges being faced by Indian SMEs, the role of government in upliftment of staggering Indian SMEs as well as the impact of government initiatives and policies on the upliftment of Indian SMEs. This paper also highlights the recommended solutions so that SME sector is empowered to perform better and prosper in domestic and international...
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...A Study On Role of Small and Medium Enterprises in U.A.E Submitted By: Vishal Bobal MBA (2015-2017) AUD4325 TABLE OF CONTENT 1. INTRODUCTION 2.1 DEFINATITION 2.2 SMEs IN DUBAI 2. SERVICES PROVIDED BY UAE GOVERNMENT TO SMEs 3. GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES TO PROMOTE SMEs 4. IMPORTANCE OF SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES 5. SMEs ROLE IN THE ECONOMY 6. PROBLEMS TO SMEs 7. BARRIERS TO SMEs 8. CONCLUSION 9. REFERENSING INTRODUCTION 1.1 DEFINATION The small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) have got very few resources, opportunities or turnover which is upto a certain extent. The definations of SMEs are flexible. This is variable from person to person. There are many people who use the word SME for those firms who have less than 500 employees, whereas some use this word for those businesses that have more than 500 workforces. However, some use the word “Big Businesses” for the organizations that have more than 500 employees. If we look at the middle east, it can be easy to see that there are numerous differences in which a regional can be taken into an account. It is also widely understood that the SMEs are the very important...
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...| SaaS Technology for SMEs | Kriti Soral | Table of Contents Introduction 2 Small and Medium sized Enterprises 2 SMEs in India 3 SMEs and ERP 3 Barriers to implementation of ERP systems in SME’s 4 Strategies used 5 Saas Technology 5 Advantages of SaaS for SMEs 6 SaaS Vendors 7 Case Studies 7 SAP for 10 Users Company- Heckler & Koch GB 7 SaaS ERP for Oxford Bookstore 9 References 10 Introduction Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) can mostly be considered as responsible for driving the competition prevailing in economic sectors. The definition and standards of a SME is different for different countries. These enterprises play an important role in setting the market trends and with this a need of using Enterprise Resources and Planning systems (ERP) for optimizing and automating their traditional business processes has aroused. But often ERP systems development, implementation and maintenance are very costly which makes it difficult for SMEs to use them. As a solution to these problems ERP system vendors now offer all the facilities of ERP system to the company without actually installing the hardware and software on the client side and this facility is referred to as Saas technology. This paper discusses SMEs of India, barriers of implementing ERP in SMEs, strategies used by ERP vendors and brief description of SaaS technology. Small and Medium sized Enterprises SME sector has been identified as an accelerator for economic growth...
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...Summary: Prime Bank is one of the leading private bank in our country. Accordingly, Prime Bank was created and commencement of business started on 17th April 1995. The sponsors are reputed personalities in the field of trade and commerce and their stake ranges from shipping to textile and finance to energy etc. Prime Bank is being managed by a highly professional and dedicated team with long experience in banking. They constantly focus on understanding and anticipating customer needs. As the banking scenario undergoes changes so is the bank and it repositions itself in the changed market condition. From 1999, Prime Bank introduces SME loan for small and medium enterprise(SME) .It provides SME loan from its 17brances for development SME in our country.It provides 2lac to 50lac taka loan according to rules and regulation of this bank. There are six SME loan pacage of this bank.Those are 1.Sahaj Rin 2.Sampad Rin 3.Chalti Rin 4.Moushami Rin 5.Digun Rin 6.Anchol About Prime bank: Prime Bank has already made significant progress within a very short period of its existence. The bank has been graded as a top class bank in the country through internationally accepted CAMELS rating. The bank has already occupied an enviable position among its competitors after achieving success in all areas of business operation. Prime Bank offers all kinds of Commercial Corporate and Personal Banking services covering all segments of society within the framework of Banking Company Act...
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...SUMMARY Overall, the SME FDI is currently an extremely valuable initiative. Through appropriate and careful analysis of the data, public policy can be directed yet more efficiently to further improve competitive advantage of Canada's SMEs. In particular, the baseline survey associated with the SME FDI is an extraordinarily valuable research undertaking. It provides the potential to assess directly the extent to which financing gaps might occur in the capital markets on which SMEs rely. This is an important issue in practical terms, in terms of the role of public policy, and in terms of economic and finance theory. The SME FDI baseline survey data provides, for the first time internationally, a means of empirically testing Nobel prize-winning ideas related to information asymmetry and capital rationing. The data provides a means of providing yet better guidance for public policy with respect to addressing potential capital market imperfections that might constrain growth and economic development of SMEs. As designed, the research initiative can and will provide valuable information about these issues. In summary, the baseline survey undertaken as part of the SME FDI is a potentially invaluable resource with respect to the design, targeting, implementation, and follow-up assessment of public policy approaches to nurturing SME growth and viability. The outcomes of this research process could help Industry Canada and its partners to provide Canadian SMEs with substantial competitive...
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