Your Task – Business plan

You are to prepare a document suitable for presentation to a financial institution for the purposes of raising finance for your projected agency. This business plan is the formal presentation document for your proposal to commence and operate your new agency.

It should reflect your investigations, analysis and recommendations for the new business and be presented in a suitable format that could be used for financing or other capital raising purposes required to commence and operate your business until it reaches profitability.

Your report should meet acceptable presentation standards for a formal business plan. It can be based on a template you have found during your studies or can be one of your own design.

NOTE: We ask that you DO NOT print and bind the document but send it to us via the OLS site electronically. “Acceptable presentation standards” means the layout of the document should include:

• Title page

• Contents page

• Levels of heading

• Headers and footers

• Appropriate tables, graphs and charts

• Consistency of styling throughout the document.

Consider that you are going to take this document to your bank manager to obtain finance so it will need to impress him or her.