How to prepare a business plan

✍ Scribed by Edward Blackwell

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: German
• Leaves: 193
• Series: The Sunday times business enterprise series
• Edition: 5th ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Planning is invaluable; no one has ever maximized their business success by just winging it. "How to Prepare a Business Plan" is a scholarly handbook, taking a look at how to create the best business plan possible for one's company. Focusing on managing income and expenses, expanding, taking out loans, and meticulously watching for early warning signs of failure, "How to Prepare a Business Plan" is an excellent choice for entrepreneurs and a top pick for community library business collections.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Clarity......Page 14
Designing the business plan......Page 15
Getting down to it......Page 16
Tackling each section......Page 17
Simple cash flow forecasts......Page 26
Is a cash flow forecast of any real use?......Page 27
Principles to observe when filling in a simple cash flow form......Page 28
The break-even analysis......Page 37
The very small business......Page 39
Example 3.1: Alexander Battersby......Page 40
Example 3.2: Nicola Grant......Page 50
Retail and catering......Page 55
Example 4.1: Flurry Knox......Page 59
Example 4.2: Robert Herrick and Deirdre Williams......Page 64
Catering......Page 72
Example 4.3: Osbert Wilkinson......Page 74
Example 5.1: Marcus Garside......Page 81
Example 5.2: Rosemary Rambler and Muriel Tonks......Page 83
Example 5.3: James Turbotte, Brian Fletcher and Julian Watchman......Page 94
Expanding a business......Page 102
Example 6.1: John S Brook......Page 105
Example 6.2: Kenneth Jackson Allen and Anthony Kevin Spooner......Page 110
Example 6.3: George Weston......Page 115
The market......Page 121
Example 7.1: Norbury Williams......Page 125
Planning the borrowing......Page 127
How not to write a business plan – or run a business......Page 135
Maintaining the plan......Page 141
Small business and the trade cycle......Page 148
Monitoring progress......Page 153
Example 3.1: Alexander Battersby (page 31)......Page 154
Example 5.2: Rosemary Rambler and Muriel Tonks (page 74)......Page 157
Example 3.2: Nicola Grant (page 41)......Page 163
Example 4.2: Robert Herrick and Deirdre Williams (page 55)......Page 164
Example 4.3: Osbert Wilkinson (page 65)......Page 168
Example 5.1: Marcus Garside (page 72)......Page 169
Example 5.3: Turbotte Manufacturing Company (page 85)......Page 170
Postscript......Page 172
Where to go for further advice......Page 173
Appendix 1: Help for small businesses......Page 177
Appendix 2: Useful names, addresses and websites......Page 182