HOW TO WRITE A BUSINESS PLAN BRIAN FINCH
Series: CREARTING SUCCESSPublication details: KOGAN PAGE LIMITED 2013 NEW DELHIEdition: 4Description: 179 P. PAPERISBN:- 9780749467104
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Introduction
Chapter 1: The structure of the plan • Using appendices
Chapter 2: Summary
Chapter 3: The business background • The business • What is the product or service? • The markets • Supply • How did you get here?
Chapter 4: The market • Overview • Market structure • Competitors • Customers • Distribution • Trends • Competitive advantage • Market segmentation • Differentiation • Pricing • Barriers to entry • Big changes and new technologies • Examples of market change • Mixed strategies
Chapter 5: Operations • Differencies • Processes • Control • Experience • Supply • Systems • Location and environment • Regulatory control
Chapter 6: Management • The essential difference • What skills are required? • Organization structure • Demonstrating control • Management
Chapter 7: The proposal • Explain • The proposition • Why will you succeed? • Ask for what you want! • What have you invested? • Closing the deal • The exit
Chapter 8: The forecast • The sales forecast • Costs • The five-year forecast • Reviewing the plan • Sensitivity • Key assumptions • Explain important points
Chapter 9: Financial information • Profit and loss account • Cash forecast • Sensitivity • Break-even • Funding • Reconciling and checking • Timing • Balance sheet • Trends • Some important terms
Chapter 10: Risks
Chapter 11: Legal issues and confidentiality • Confidentiality
Chapter 12: Selling your business • Explain why you are selling • Emphasize the great opportunities for the business • Don’t waste time illustrating that sudden upturn in business expected imminently • Do you include a forecast? • Who is the buyer? • Holding back information • Due diligence
Chapter 13: Improve performance with a business plan • Planning is not budgeting • Strategic vision and action • Creating strategy • Planning for people • Practicalities
Chapter 14: Using business plans for bidding
Appendices • The confidentiality letter • Reconciling profit and cash flow • The cash forecast
Glossary
Whether you are starting or selling your own company, business plans are an essential and unavoidable part of the business cycle. How to Write a Business Plan, 4th edition, gives you the expert guidance you need to make an impact with your written plan, including step by step advice on:
• researching the competitors
• how to present your management skills and experience
• the structure of the plan
• the proposal
• preparing financial information
• risk, legal issues and confidentiality
• how to communicate your strategic vision
Along with a glossary of key terms and brand new advice on producing cash and profit forecasts, How to Write a Business Plan contains all the help you’ll need to get it right first time.
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