PART A. - INTRODUCTION TO THE FINANCIAL PLAN
PART B - FORECASTED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
The next part of the Financial Plan involves the Forecasted Financial Statements. You will include the following forecasted statements and analysis in your Financial Plan. Click on each item below for details and examples.
Financial Statements
The idea of Financial Statements may put you to sleep, but the lack of Financial Statement knowledge may put you out of business. This section is designed to provide you with a working knowledge of Financial Statement and Financial Analysis.
Management & Staffing of Your Business Plan
2. THE FORECASTED BALANCE SHEETS
B) Marketing and Industry Issues:
Mission & Strategy Statements in Your Plan
A well written business plan will include a mission statement and a strategy statement. The statements (combined) generally do not exceed two pages in length and always appear after the executive summary section of the business plan.
COPYRIGHT:
A copyright protects any literary, artistic, musical or dramatic work developed by its creators as indicated under the Copyright Act. For example, if you own a business that has developed a computer program, the literature in the computer program can be protected by a copyright. Or if you have developed a manual on "How to Stop Smoking", a copyright will protect the manual itself, thus discouraging others from copying the material and selling it to others.
APPENDICES OF A BUSINESS PLAN
The appendices section of your business plan is used to provide readers with information and documents that support your claims made throughout the business plan. Many entrepreneurs neglect to develop this section, thinking that bankers and other investors will never read it. In realty through, most investors want to see the information sources used by the business plan writer/entrepreneur.