Writing a Business Plan

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This course will help you to create a well-constructed business plan that enables decision makers to better understand the potential project and helps you to ensure the idea and the finances make sense. Discover the role of the accountant in writing an effective business plan.

£100 +VAT

4 CPD hours

120 days’ access

Use ACPD101 for 10% off any purchase.

Writing a Business Plan

£100 +VAT

4 CPD hours 120 days’ access
Use ACPD101 for 10% off any purchase.

Writing a Business Plan

This course is not currently available. To find out more, please get in touch.

This course will enable you to

  • Explain what a business plan is
  • Understand the role of accountants in writing a business plan
  • Outline the essential components of a business plan
  • Structure and format a business plan
  • Write the financial section
  • Consider relevant external business factors
  • Ensure consistency and accuracy in your business plan
  • Use your plan as a benchmark for success

About the course

Successful businesses and investors will have a good track record in determining not only which projects are funded through to completion, but also those that aren’t taken forward. One key tool in the decision-making process is the business plan.

This course will help you to create a well-constructed business plan, complete with all the key elements, that enables decision makers to better understand the potential project and helps you to ensure the idea and the finances are fully thought through. You will also gain an understanding of how the business plan can be used as a benchmark to track the success of the project. Discover the role of the accountant in writing an effective business plan.

Contents

Getting started

What is a business plan?
Who’s writing?
Making a case for business plans
Enter, accountants
The role of accountants
Key components

Structuring and formatting the plan

Laying the foundations
Structure
Financing options
Format
A stake in the business plan
Telling your story

Writing the plan

Business concept
Marketing plan
Financial plan
Forecasting models
Sales and costs forecasts
Financial requirements
Risk assessment
Contingency planning
Action plan

Reviewing the plan

What makes a successful business plan?
Review the plan
Conciseness, consistency, correctness
Benchmarking
Using the plan
Adapting the plan

How it works

Author

Chris Bruce

Managing Director of Better & Better Ltd, a consultancy providing “business advice and project implementations” to a range of organisations from start-ups through to multinational corporations.