Business Development Services (BDS) Forum

Business Information Handbooks

Ethiopian Publications

The business information services on business registration, business planning, bookkeeping, marketing, trade fairs, access to finance (see right navigation bar) are the necessary background information for BDS facilitators and BDS providers and their institutions for efficient Business Development Services on the enterprise level. Business plan templates and Import-Export procedure formats as well as cash book templates and cost calculation formats can be printed out and are ready for use.

After a first Internet based version of information services , information has been revised, printed, published. A serie of handbooks is now for sale in the Ethiopian bookshops and via distribution channels of partner organizations like the Chambers of Commerce.

In Ghana actually we are still in the first publishing phase with information services on the BDS Ghana web and non-published drafts for print-out.

Some handbooks like marketing strategies, basic bookkeeping and business planning can be used in different countries while others like taxation, import-export and access to finance have rather country-specific contents and would serve only as a sort of template for adaptation in other countries.

Ethiopian Business Information Publications:

EBDSN, Addis 7/2004
Start and Improve your Business
start-your-business-1-7-2004.pdf  620 KB

EBDSN, Addis 2004
Marketing Strategies for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
in Ethiopia marketing-23-2-04.pdf  290 KB

EBDSN, Addis 02
Trade Fair Participation and Export Guide
tradefair-export-25-02-04.pdf  434 KB

EBDSN, Addis 2004
Business Planning for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
businessplan-18-06-04.pdf  255 KB

EBDSN, Addis 2004
Accounting and Cost Calculation Manual
accounting-cost-calculation-14-2-04.pdf  180 KB

EBDSN, Addis 2004
Loan conditions of Commercial Banks and Micro Finance Institutions in Ethiopia
loan-conditions-23-02-04.pdf  468 KB

EBDSN, Addis 2004
Improve your Business Asociation
business-association-5-2-04.pdf  175 KB

EBDSN, Addis 2004
Standards and Quality in Ethiopia
standards-quality-27-2-04.pdf  190 KB

EBDSN, Addis 2004
Investment Guide for Ethiopia investment-25-2-04.pdf  240 KB

EBDSN / Chambers of Commerce, Addis 7/04
Taxation in Ethiopia taxation-manual-8-7-04.pdf

Dieter Gagel, Fantahun Melles,
Karl Bartels (for EBDSN), Addis Ababa 10/2004
Toolkit for BDS Facilitation.
Demand-driven Business Development Services (BDS)
toolkit-bds-ethiopia-webversion.pdf  1,2 MB

Ghana Business Information Drafts:

Start and Improve your Business start-your-business.doc 1.2 MB

Basic Bookkeeping and Cost Calculation
bookkeeping-costcalculation.doc 600 KB

Write your Business Plan write-your-business-plan.doc  1.2 MB

Financing your Business financing-your-business.doc  485 KB

Marketing Strategies  marketing-strategies.doc  522 KB

Export-Import and Trade Fairs Guide
export-import-tradfairs.doc  350 KB

Improve your Business Association
improve-your-business-association.doc  520 KB

Taxation in Ghana is only available in the Intranet

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