The Business Plan Workbook: The Definitive Guide to Researching Writing up and Presenting a Winning Plan ("Sunday Times" Business Enterprise S.)

by RobertBrown (Author), PaulBarrow (Author), Colin Barrow (Author), IOD (Author)

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  Paperback
  2001

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  This step-by-step approach covers all the important subjects: market research, competitors, business strategy, advertising and promotion, operations, sales forecasts and financial matter. The production of a business plan is a commonplace challenge, yet it is essential to the future of any enterprise. Business plans are necessary to raise finance for new ventures and provide a blueprint for management in the future. Without such a plan, no bank or venture capital house will consider a loan for start-up or expansion. Now in its fourth edition, this best-selling guide to preparing a business plan provides practical, professional advice in an accessible format. Based on the Enterprise Programme at Cranfield School of Management, it contains 20 assignments with worksheets and examples to help you to construct your plan. This step-by-step approach covers all the important subjects: market research; competitors; business strategy; advertising and promotion; operations; sales forecasts and financial matter. Successfully used by thousands of people, this tried and tested workbook provides expert advice to help you get it right, first time.

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  Paperback
  2005

  $3.22

  The Business Plan Workbook has established itself as the essential guide to business planning for students and entrepreneurs alike. Drawing on the experience, knowledge and expertise of the Enterprise Faculty within Cranfield School of Management, it brings together the processes and procedures required to write a business plan. With an emphasis on practicality, it contains 20 assignments with several worksheets and examples from the business plans of sucessful entrepreneurs. Cranfield has developed and tested this method of helping people to research and validate their business ideas, and then to write up a plan themselves, so the book itself is based on sound principles. Without a business plan, no bank or venture capital house will consider a loan for start-up or expansion, and the workbook contains the criticisms, warnings and experiences of investors as well as successful entrepreneurs.

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  Hardcover
  1988

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