How to Prepare a Business Plan: Create Your Strategy Forecast Your Finances Produce that Persuasive Plan (Business Success)

by EdwardBlackwell (Author)

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  Paperback
  2011

  $4.01

  A good business plan should impress potential financial backers by clarifying aims, providing a blueprint for the future of your company and a benchmark against which to measure growth. Part of Kogan Page's Business Success series, with over 50,000 copies sold worldwide, How to Prepare a Business Plan explains the whole process in accessible language and includes guidance on: producing cash flow forecasts and sample business plans; expanding a business; planning the borrowing; and monitoring business progress. The author introduces several small businesses as case studies, analyses their business plans, monitors their progress and discusses their problems. How to Prepare a Business Plan helps new business owners to consider what they really want out of their business, and to map their own journey and gain a new understanding of their product's place in the market, as well as writing a business plan with the clarity, brevity and logic to keep bank managers interested and convinced. Whether looking to start up or expand, this practical advice will help anyone to prepare a plan that is tailored to the requirements of their business - one that will get the financial backing they need.

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  Paperback
  2004

  $3.73

  Praise and reviews include: Ideal for entrepreneurs and decision-makers in SMEs. Highly recommended. - George Cox, Director General, Institute of Directors. The first step in starting up a business is to draw up a detailed plan. Most providers of finance for start-ups or expansion insist on seeing a business plan before they will even consider the necessary funding. It is also necessary for any entrepreneur to clarify their aims and objectives, and a plan is a good way of achieving this. A business plan is essential - it provides a blueprint for the future of a company and a benchmark against which to measure growth. This fully updated edition of the best-selling How to Prepare a Business Plan explains the whole process in everyday terms, covering: writing the plan; producing cash-flow forecasts; planning the borrowing; and expanding the business. The author introduces several small businesses as case studies, analysing their business plans, monitoring their progress and discussing their problems. Whether you are looking to start-up or expand, this practical advice will help you to prepare a plan that is tailored to the requirements of your business - one that will get you the financial backing needed.

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  Hardcover
  1998

  $9.96

  Case studies reinforce the advice on tailoring the business plan to specific needs -- and thereby increasing the chances of obtaining the required finance.