The Business Plan

Guides you through writing a Business Plan then monitoring its execution. This innovative, powerful and easy-to-use software focuses on the essentials for products, marketing, financing, budgeting, monitoring and accountability. The Business Plan is designed to provide real help for senior managers or business owners in managing their business.
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The Business Plan by e-dec guides you through writing a Business Plan and then, over the course of the financial year, monitoring execution of the Plan. The Business Plan is a key tool for efficiently planning and managing your business. It is written for the owner and manager (of a small business) or Board and senior management (of a medium-sized business) or senior management (of a government agency). It has a common sense, practical, easy-to-use style.

The Business Plan focuses on what is important for:

• planning - making decisions about strategy, production, marketing and financing
• helping you manage execution of the Plan,
• monitoring performance and imposing accountability.

This unique product brings clear thinking to business planning. The Business Plan avoids verbiage; it focuses solely on what is important for planning and for management. The Business Plan has several purposes - record strategy, provide the information needed for decisions on what is to be done, record target achievements for the coming financial year, record how these targets are to be achieved, define the Budget and authorize the resources needed to carry out these tasks, plan for capital expenditure and financing, allow performance to be monitored and, finally, impose accountability.

As the essence of any business is products and customers, The Business Plan is organized around products, the outputs the business supplies to its customers or, for a government agency, the services provided to its clients. The Business Plan devleops the information needed for the owner/Board/senior management to make a sequence of decisions for each product:

• Should we continue with the product? This information covers: Does this product have a competitive advantage? Have we got reasonable production, marketing and sales capabilities? How much will the product contribute to earnings in the next financial year and over the next five years? What risks are we taking on with this product?
• What are we aiming to achieve in the coming year? Knowing where we want to get to is essential for drawing up the management plan, defining the Budget and for evaluating performance.
• What tasks will have to be accomplished to achieve our objective? This management plan records what has to be done, by whom and when. It also allows the owner/Board/senior management to monitor operational performance.
• What resources will be needed to accomplish our objective? The planning process generates the Budget; this specifies the resources needed. Once the Plan is approved, the Budget authorizes expenditure (on costs and on capex) by management and also provides one of the bases for monitoring performance.

The Business Plan then consolidates this information at the level of the overall business to address:

• The Budget for the business as a whole for the coming financial year.
• A financing plan, covering the use of funds as well as the source of funds from cash flow and from debt and equity, for the coming financial year.
• Five year forecasts of the business covering each product, overall financial performance and capital or financing requirements.

Over the course of the financial year, the owner/Board/senior management will want to monitor performance. The Business Plan does this by, every month:

• Comparing actual financial performance to the Budget.
• Placing performance within the context of the risk analysis recorded in the Plan.
• Comparing actual accomplishment of targets to the milestones set out in the Plan.
• Imposing acountability by recognizing which targets have been met and, just as important, identifying which targets have not been met and who is responsible for these.

The professionals at e-dec have drawn on their extensive experience in governance and management to design The Business Plan. This product is unique in its power and its ease of use. e-dec has achieved this power and simplicity by cutting to the heart of business planning so that you get the information that you really need to formulate an effective plan, make the appropriate straegic decisions, manage execution and impose accountability.

The Business Plan is serious software but is expressed in everyday terms, making sophisticated management procedures available and accessible to small businesses, medium-sized businesses and government agencies.

The Business Plan is in one file that runs in Microsoft(R) Excel on any PC with Excel 97 or later.

Purchase The Business Plan from this site and use it for effective planning and management of your business.