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[ # ] What is a Business Plan?
December 2nd, 2006 under Business Development, Entrepreneurs

People complicate business plans.

A business plan is a profit and loss forecast and the exhaustive set of assumptions to meet or beat this forecast.

Every number in your spreadsheet has a great number of assumptions behind it.

What are the list of questions that Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Your Accountant, Your Enterprise Ireland Development Advisor, and others would ask?

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[ # 2592 ] Comment from Brendan Lally [April 29, 2007, 4:37 am]

Thats a great simplification and agreed that often BP do get very complicated and overly engineered (bit like IT :)

Lal

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