Business Plan Format
by Nour Assi
1. Vision, mission and strategy
2. Market context
3. The product
4. Competition
5. Financial plan
5.1. "Finance is a servicing, not an executive function: it should provide professional advice but have no authority to override managers’ decisions on the spending – within the company’s rules – of their devolved budgets"
6. Risk assessment and management
7. Executive summary
8. Company profile
9. Delivery of the product
10. PEST (political, economic, social, technical) and SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analyses
11. Financial assumptions and notes
12. Appendices