Small Business Financial Plan Project Due

Instructions

For the purposes of this curriculum, we will concentrate on the financial and funding request portions of the plan for your small business.

Your financial plan shall tie well to the company that you introduced in Week 3's Executive Summary.

Although each plan will be unique, depending on business sector, location, stage of development, and so forth, all plans should include the following:

1) Introduction

2) discussion of whether cash or accrual basis accounting will be used

3) discussion of the type of accounting and finance software will be used

4) discussion of all sources, purposes and amounts of funds to be raised

5) Balance sheet (Existing Business: historic and one-year pro forma projections / Start-Up: one-year pro forma projection) - acceptable in Excel document as well

6) Income statement (Existing Business: historic and one-year pro forma projections / Start-Up: one-year pro forma projection) - acceptable in Excel document as well

7) 12-month Pro-forma Cash Flow Projection (including accounts of cash receipt and cash expenditures) - acceptable in Excel document as well When preparing income, balance sheet, and cash flow projection, provide descriptive assumptions for each account relevant to your business

8) Ratio analysis (present your calculation and analysis for one of each financial ratio of profitability, liquidity, leverage and efficiency - a total of 4 financial ratios)

9) Executive Summary (submit your Executive Summary already prepared in Week 3 as well). When you attach your Executive Summary in your submission (preferably as a separate Word document), you will immediately earn the credit assigned to 9).

10) Conclusion

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. Submit your responses for all task items in a Word document only. Refer to the syllabus writing requirement and Content/Syllabus/Course Resources/Writing Resources for more information about referencing and formatting.

Submit a minimum of 6-page paper (including Excel document and reference information) in length.