Business Plan Components: Sample Plans Illustrate Required Content

Benefits: Its always easier to write if you have a clear picture of what the finished product should look like. The attached files contain the component elements of sample business plans for three fictitious companies. Taken together, they illustrate the type of information that is essential to the creation of a high quality business plan. These documents are not complete plans; they are not templates into which you can cut and paste information about your business. Instead, these documents demonstrate how the nature of a business and the target audience for the plan affect the content. After looking over one or more of these business plans, a business owner should have a handle on what information his or her business plan needs to contain to make it the best possible plan.

File Description: There are five documents available for download:

Two files are in rich text format (RTF) that is suitable for use with most word processing programs used in the Windows environment.

One file contains text formatted as tables in Microsoft Word 6.0. To use these forms, you need Microsoft Word version 6.0 or above.

Two files are Microsoft Excel spreadsheets suitable for use with Excel versions 4.0 and above.

RTF Files

RTF File with Word Tables

Excel Files

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