Overview

Write a business plan that potential investors will embrace!

If you're thinking of starting a business or raising money to expand an existing one, you need a plan. Running a successful business requires a great deal of forethought, so write a business plan and secure your venture's future. How to Write a Business Plan will show you how to write the right plan for your business and design a loan package necessary to finance your business and make it work.

With this bestselling all-in-one guide you'll learn how to:
. figure out if your business idea will make money
. estimate operating expenses
. prepare cash flow
. create profit and loss forecasts
. determine assets, liabilities, and net worth
. find potential sources of financing
. think first before borrowing from friends and relatives, and
. professionally present your plan to lenders and investors

How to Write a Business Plan provides spreadsheets that help you determine and forecast cash flow, financial statements, sales revenue, and profit and loss. It also provides three sample business plans you can modify for your own use.This edition is completely updated, providing all-new online resources and updated examples of successful business plans.

"A thorough self-help book that will help you present a convincing financial opportunity to banks and investors in a format they can understand."--Home Office Computing.

Product Details

ISBN: 9780749455828
Publisher: KOGAN
Publication date: 10/1/2012
Edition description: Eleventh Edition
Edition number: 11
Pages: 274
Sales rank: 894,904
Product dimensions: 7.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.75 (d)