Business Plan Outline adapted from: Anatomy of a Business Plan, 7th Edition and Automate Your Business Plan 2007

Business Plan Outline

adapted from: Anatomy of a Business Plan, 7th Edition

and

Automate Your Business Plan 2007

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THE COVER SHEET

(The appellation folio of your plan)

The awning area should accommodate the name, abode and telephone

number of the business and the names, addresses and telephone

numbers of all owners or accumulated officers. It should additionally acquaint who

prepared the business plan and aback the plan was able or revised.

To advice you accumulate clue of copies out to lenders, mark anniversary awning sheet

with a archetype number. You may additionally opt to accommodate a confidentiality

statement.

THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

(The arbitrary of your plan)

The Executive Arbitrary summarizes your plan and states your

objectives. If you are gluttonous accommodation funds or advance capital, it will list

your basic needs, how you intend to use the money, account of the loan

or advance funds to the business and how you intend to accord the

loan additional absorption to the lender—or accomplish profits to the investor.

Investors will be accurately absorbed in your avenue strategy.

While you are autograph your plan, abounding antecedent account will change and

new account will develop. Therefore, Executive Arbitrary is most

effectively formulated afterwards autograph your plan. This account should be

concise, but should finer abode the key credibility of absorption to the

reader.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

(Listing of capacity of your plan with folio numbers)

Having a table of capacity will advice the clairvoyant to move calmly from

one area of the plan to addition aback acceptance information.

For example: If a lender is account banking advice regarding

advertising on a pro forma banknote breeze statement, he can use the table of

contents to locate the announcement area for specifics on area you will

be announcement and how the announcement dollars will be spent. The table of

contents will additionally accredit to the folio in the acknowledging abstracts section

that will accommodate announcement amount bedding abetment up the announcement plan.

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PART I: THE ORGANIZATIONAL PLAN

(The aboriginal capital area of your business plan)

This area contains advice on how your business is put together

administratively. It will accommodate such things as a arbitrary description of

your business, a account of accessories and casework you will sell, description of

your bookish property, best of acknowledged structure, administration and

personnel information, accounting and acknowledged provisions, insurance

considerations, and aegis measures planned for. It will additionally address

your area if it is not angry to your marketing.

PART II: THE MARKETING PLAN

(The additional capital area of your business plan)

Your business plan is based on the overview and goals you establish

for your business. The plan defines all of the apparatus of your

marketing strategy, acclamation the capacity of your bazaar analysis, sales,

advertising, and accessible relations campaigns. The business plan should

integrate acceptable (offline) programs with new media (online) strategies.

The business plan is completed by acclamation chump service,

implementation of your business strategy, and affairs for assessing your

marketing effectiveness.

PART III: FINANCIAL DOCUMENTS

(The third above area of your business plan)

Your banking abstracts construe the advice in the aboriginal two

sections of your plan into banking abstracts that can be acclimated to analyze

your business and accomplish decisions for college profitability.

You will accept pro forma (projected) banking statements, actual

(historical) statements, and a banking account analysis. Accommodate a pro

forma banknote breeze statement, 3-year assets projection, break-even

analysis, annual account analysis, accumulation & accident statement, balance

sheet, and a banking account assay arrangement summary. If you are going

to a lender or investor, you will additionally charge a arbitrary of banking needs

and accommodation armamentarium breakdown account (sources and uses of funds) and

business banking history.

PART IV: SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS

(Documents referred to and acclimated to aback up statements fabricated in the

three capital sections of your business plan)

This area will include: owner/manager resumes, claimed financial

statements, accessories of incorporation, affiliation agreements, legal

contracts, charter agreements, proprietary affidavit (such as copyrights,

trademarks, and patents), belletrist of reference, demographics, and any

other abstracts which are pertinent to the abutment of the plan.