Modern lifestyle, permanent technology development and a dynamic environment that are integral part of the enterprise environment, encourages enterprises to be flexible and adaptable and prompt recognize the factors that could negatively affect their business and thus encourage the crisis. Business crisis is usually considered as an unplanned and unwanted process that damages the primary aims, threatening the security and work, and put into question the survival of the company. Crisis mainly affects small businesses which are, because of lack of knowledge and limited opportunities, usually unprepared to face the crisis. Due to this small companies increasingly use the services of external consultants to assist them in the overcoming the crisis. Using the example of a small company it is shown that the crisis has been identified by analysis, as well as movement which the company so far carried out independently in order to survive the crisis and the proposed activities that the company still has to implement. This work shows the importance of using the activities of crisis management in small companies, especially as they constitues almost 99% of the Croatian economy.