Definitive Business Plan, Second Edition, The

Does it all hold together?

Hold on. I was just talking about funding as if your financial forecasting exercise was finished. By and large, it is. But you need to sit back and look at the work that you have done so far. In this chapter, you used your earlier work to draw up balance sheet and cash flow projections. You identified your surplus or funding requirements. You valued your business. And you decided how to fund any deficit. Now you should review the risks and rewards and decide if everything holds together, or rework any parts of your strategy and operating plans if necessary. Chapter 11 takes a look at this.