Oman Business: Oman’s Eshraqa’s ‘Tasees’, Asmed organise boot-camp for SMEs – Gulf Digital News

Oman Business: Oman’s Eshraqa’s ‘Tasees’, Asmed organise boot-camp for SMEs – Gulf Digital News

Oman’s Khimji Ramdas Eshraqa’s Entrepreneurship Academy (EEA) ‘Tasees’ recently organised a first-of-its-kind ‘Business Finance’ workshop for small and medium enterprise (SME) owners.

The workshop was part of a training and development boot-camp series that has been planned in collaboration with the Authority for Small and Medium Enterprises Development (Asmed).

‘Tasees’s training programme is the first in a series of workshops organised for SMEs who hold a Riyada card, and have been in business for more than a year. Initiated to solve a major pain area for SME owners, especially Finance - the programme received over 200 applications from across Oman were shortlisted on multiple parameters. 15 SME owners were then chosen to join the training programme’s classroom sessions held at EEA’s premises in Azaiba, over three consecutive days.

Various sectors

Participants were chosen from various sectors including tourism, oil and gas supplies, manufacturing, healthcare, auto servicing, construction, and land surveying, to name a few. Some of the topics that were discussed during the workshop include the history of business, use of money, income statements, the health of a business, financial ratios, net present value, as well as internal rate of return.

Nailesh Khimji, Director, Khimji Ramdas Group said: “Entrepreneurship has been identified as an important