"This new edition of Anatomy of a business plan has been revised to reflect the latest online and printed financial and marketing resources and current business plan practices"--Page 4 of cover.
A Step-by-step Guide to Start Smart, Building the Business and Securing Your Company's Future
If you want to grow your business, you need an effective, up-to-date business plan. It is your key to start-up, maintaining growth, accessing financing and keeping on track. You'll get a blueprint to steer your company to success and access to capital from lenders and investors. Packed with resources, sample forms, worksheets, examples, and two fully developed actual plans, you'll find all the tools you need to start and stay on the success track
A business classic that has been guiding new entrepreneurs through the process of launching their businesses for more than a quarter of a century, this book has now been revised to feature the most up-to-date information, forms, examples, and worksheets. It emphasizes all of the mechanics of the start-up, including choosing a business, legal structure, location, and DBAs. Additional chapters cover home-based business, proprietary rights, financing options, bookkeeping, and cash flow. Offering indispensable advice for marketing, Internet operation, and business planning, it is positioned to remain a favorite for business education by universities, colleges, technical schools, and small business development centers.
Now in its 27th year, this is one of the most successful and effective guides to preparing and analyzing financial statements, setting up bookkeeping systems, and planning for taxes. Featuring chapters on income and expenses, cash accounting vs. accrual accounting, numerous small business resources, and a rundown of facts about independent contracting, it has been updated to reflect the latest forms and worksheets. A favorite in classrooms and libraries and widely used in colleges, universities, small business development centers, and vocational training courses, the guide has helped hundreds of thousands of new entrepreneurs to understand and apply small business recordkeeping practices that have contributed significantly to increased profits.