Write a business plan

We have outlined the information that any good business plan should include, and we would recommend that you use this as a guide for preparing your business plan.

This checklist highlights the areas which need to be considered in preparing a business plan.  It has been designed for use as an aide memoire and is divided into the following sections for ease of reference:

  1. Executive Summary
  2. Industry
  3. Product/Service
  4. Market
  5. Operations
  6. Management
  7. Implementation Schedule
  8. Finance
  9. Appendices

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