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How to Write a Business Plan

Pub. Date: Nov 2008
Edition: 9th
Pages: 288 pp
ISBN: 9781413309089
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Summary

Write a business plan that potential investors will embrace!

Thinking of starting a business or raising money to expand an existing one? This popular book will show you how to write the business plan and loan package necessary to finance your business and make it work.

With How to Write a Business Plan, 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 
  • present your plan to lenders and investors.

How to Write a Business Plan provides a CD-ROM with 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.

The 9th edition is completely updated, providing all-new online resources and updated examples of great business plans.

Press Reviews

"An essential book to help entrepreneurs..."
Dallas Morning News
"A thorough self-help book that will lead you through the process. Examples and worksheets will help you present a convincing financial opportunity to banks and investors in a format they understand."
Home Office Computing
"This outstanding handbook presents a step-by-step guide to writing a professional, sound business plan."
Library Journal
"Anyone who starts or operates a small business without a business plan takes a needless risk of either failure or no growth. Here’s an easy-to-follow book that takes the reader step-by-step … to get the budding entrepreneur off to a successful business start-up."
San Francisco Examiner
"When starting your own business, it's important to know that in legal terms, anything you don't know can hurt you.... If you can't afford a lawyer, consider reading... How to Write a Business Plan."
Upscale
"Shows how to write a sound business plan, including strategies for: Evaluating the profitability of a business idea; estimating operating expenses ... finding potential sources of financing; and presenting a plan to lenders."
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