How to Prepare a Business Plan:
Create Your Strategy; Forecast Your Finances; Produce
That Persuasive Plan
A good business plan is the best means of impressing potential financial backers.
Indeed, without such a plan no bank or venture capital house will consider a loan for
start-up or expansion.
How to Prepare a Business Plan describes the best way to prepare a
business plan that will get the financial backing needed.
Now updated with case studies and information on technology and the internet,
it includes cash flow forecasts and sample business plans, as well as advice on expanding
a business, planning the borrowing and monitoring business progress.
Every new business needs a comprehensive and detailed plan if it is to survive.
How to Prepare a Business Plan helps aspiring entrepreneurs take this step.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction 1
1 Writing a business plan 4
2 Simple cash flow forecasts 18
3 The very small business 34
4 Buying a retail business 60
5 Manufacturing 76
6 Expanding a business 93
7 The market 106
8 Planning the borrowing 110
9 How not to write a business plan - or run a business
120
10 Maintaining the plan 127
11 Small business and the trade cycle 134
12 Monitoring progress 140
13 Where to go for further advice 161
App. 1 Help for small businesses 165
App. 2 Useful names, addresses and Web sites 169
Index 177
208 pages, Paperback