This is an individual project where you will be acting as a consultant to an entrepreneur who wants to start a new business. As the consultant, you'll create a 5-year budget that supports the entrepreneur's vision and strategy, as well as the needs for equipment, labor, and other start-up costs.


You can choose from one of three types of new business start-ups-a landscaping company, a restaurant, or an electronics store that sells portable computing devices. Each business has its own business profile detailed in the sections below. The purpose of the business profile is to guide you in understanding the scope of the business, the entrepreneur's start-up costs, and financial assumptions.


The project requires you to create a written budget proposal, a supporting Excel workbook showing your calculations, and a PowerPoint presentation summarizing the key elements of the budget proposal, which you assume will be presented to a management team.


This is an individual project. Each week you will complete a section of the project in draft form. In Week 7, you will submit the final version of the project's budget proposal, budget workbook, and budget presentation in PowerPoint.