Business Advisory: A Study on Selected Micro-sized SMEs in Kelantan, Malaysia

Abstract

This study seeks to investigate the business advisory awareness among some micro-sized SMEs in Kelantan,Malaysia, focusing on the advisory services supplied by various government agencies. Micro-sized SMEs werethe centre of the study because they represent a large number of SMEs in the country. Notwithstanding with thevarious advisory services provided by the government agencies in the state, result of the study showed themajority of respondents was not fully aware of and assured on the existence of business advisory services.Furthermore, the results of the study indicated no significant relationship between all the demographic factors ofbusinesses and the level of awareness of business advisory among micro-sized SMEs. The key findings of thestudy are instructive. Actions should be taken by the government and its relevant agencies to enhance the level ofawareness and knowledge of the importance of advisory among micro-sized SMEs. It seemed that theinformation pertaining to the business advisory services are not well disseminated to the targeted group. Thisfailure distorts the government plan to efficiently support SMEs, thus leading to waste of scarce resources.Suggestions were also made to significantly address these issues.

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