From Idea to Enterprise
Free, practical business knowledge for Mauritian entrepreneurs, from first idea to structured enterprise. Presented by Mr Sham Mathura.
Every business travels the same nine stages
Find where you are today. Each stage has its own problems and its own episodes.
One subject, thirty minutes, every Thursday
Each episode belongs to a stage of the journey. Filter by your stage above, or browse everything below.
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Bring your business problem
Submit a real question about your business. Mr Sham selects questions each week and answers them on the programme, free of charge, for every entrepreneur watching.
Never miss a Thursday
One short email each week when the new episode goes live.
Who is behind SME.mu
I am Sham Mathura. For many years my professional life has been closely connected with entrepreneurs, accountants, students, startups and small and medium enterprises.
Since entering business in 2007, I have experienced entrepreneurship not from textbooks, but from the realities of building businesses, creating employment, advising entrepreneurs, solving financial problems, overcoming setbacks and helping businesses grow.
I have known successes in business. I have also known difficulties and setbacks. Both have taught me valuable lessons, and I intend to share them.
This is not a platform for personalities or confrontation. It is a platform for ideas, knowledge, entrepreneurship and solutions.
Who this is for
- The young Mauritian with an idea who does not know where to begin
- The employee dreaming of becoming an entrepreneur
- The small trader becoming a properly structured business
- The SME facing finance, tax, cash flow, staffing or growth problems
- The diaspora considering investing back home
- Expatriates and international entrepreneurs learning the Mauritian business environment
Everything on SME.mu is free of charge
Why the answers can be trusted
Every answer on SME.mu comes from a practising accountant, auditor and lecturer with a documented professional record.
- FCCA
- Fellow Member of the ACCA, and former Vice-President of ACCA Mauritius
- Authorised, Licensed & Registered Auditor
- Financial Reporting Council
- Public & Professional Accountant
- MIPA
- Authorised Insolvency Practitioner
- since 2013, under the Insolvency Act 2009
- Post Graduate Diploma in Law
- Leeds Beckett University, 2021
- Tax advisor
- five years a sitting member of the ARC Panel, now the Revenue Tribunal
- SME & business re-engineering specialist
- regularly invited onto radio and press debates on financial and economic issues
ACCA papers mentored
- BTBusiness and Technology
- FRFinancial Reporting
- TX-UKTaxation, United Kingdom
- AAAudit and Assurance
- SBRStrategic Business Reporting
- SBLStrategic Business Leader
- AAAAdvanced Audit and Assurance
