To develop a business plan there is no defined structure, but one can take the best guess according to their goals, but always make sure that it will provide for planning, and make it easy to understand for anyone to read it.
Here is a common structure, with all parties must have a business plan:
* Executive Summary: Executive Summary is a summary of other parts of the business plan, usually covering business description, reasons for the project, distinguishing characteristics, competitive advantage, the investment required and the profitability of the project.
* Description of Business: This section describes the business and products or services to be offered, business or project objectives, major strategies to achieve goals, and basic business data such as name, type and location of the business.
* Market research: in a market survey describes the main features of the target, the main characteristics of the main competitors, determine the estimated demand, and develop a marketing plan.
* Technical studies: in the technical study shows the physical requirements, describes the process of production, infrastructure, business size, production capacity and layout of the plant.
* Organization: Part of the organizational structure detailing the legal and business organizations, identify the areas or departments, positions, functions, payroll and information systems.
* Investment and Financing Study: This section identifies the required investment (fixed investment, intangible assets and working capital), and external financing required.
* Studies of revenues and expenditures: This section discusses the projections or estimates, including sales budget, cash budget or cash flow projections and operating budgets or projections of income.
* Evaluation: and finally, the assessment was developed to evaluate the project, determine the recovery period, and the results of the profitability indicators used.
To learn more about the parts that make a business plan, we invite you to read the article: the structure of the business plan.