Financial Plan
THE FINANCIAL PLAN is a critical section of your business plan because it translates all the other parts of the business—the opportunity, the operating plan, the marketing plan, the management team—into anticipated financial results. To prepare this part of your plan, start by thinking about your readers’ concerns.
Anticipating readers’ concerns
Different readers of your business plan will have different points of view as they approach the financial plan:
- The investment committee member reviewing your proposal wants to know whether the venture can achieve the company’s hurdle rate (the minimum rate of return expected of all projects). ...
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