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How To Write a Business Plan

How to write a complete business plan in 12 easy steps

Created byGunter Richter
IntermediateUpdated May 30, 2020

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleBreak down the business planning process into manageable sections
  • check_circleComplete each part of a business plan with guided support
  • check_circleUse templates to speed up the writing process
  • check_circleUnderstand what a finished business plan should look like

About This Course

Writing a business plan can feel overwhelming, but this course makes it simple by breaking it down into 12 clear steps. Perfect for new or growing entrepreneurs, each module helps you complete a section of your plan with the support of easy-to-follow videos and ready-to-use templates—including a full sample plan for reference.

Course Content

7 activities • 19 videos • duration: 2h 52m

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Section 1: Taking the First Steps to Build a Business Plan-Part12 videos • 11 min
  • videocamModule 01 - Introduction
    Duration 4:57
  • videocamModule 02 - Getting Started
    Duration 6:04
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Section 2: Describing Your Company-Part15 videos • 46 min
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Section 3: The Company's Business Model-Part12 videos • 23 min
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Section 4: Marketing and Product Development-Part12 videos • 18 min
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Section 5: Managing Your Company-Part12 videos • 19 min
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Section 6: Building a Financial Model-Part13 videos • 31 min
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Section 7: Conclusion-Part13 videos • 22 min

Your Instructor

Gunter Richter

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I help organisations and individuals improve their performance through business and technology change. In my consulting career of more than 20 years, I have delivered value to many organisations, spanning multiple industries such as telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, and retail. I've delivered business transformation projects across the UK, Europe, Africa, and the United States. My experience comes from a combination of starting and growing my own businesses, growing the organisations I've been part of, and corporate organisations I've consulted to. I'm passionate about business, entrepreneurship, careers, and personal development. I strongly believe that small businesses are the future of the economy, employment, and creating value in society. To support this, I think it's essential that small business get access to the support, skills, and services previously only available at a huge cost to large corporations. I hope you'll join me on this journey and I look forward to meeting you soon

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

What Students Are Saying

4.5 out of 5
Student's Choice
19 reviews
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    Asher L.
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    Good overview.

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    John L.
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    Sufficiently detailed on each stage of the Business Plan development.

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    Tony M.
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    Part of my PMP PDU recertification, and it is a match because (1) project managers support the business world in part, and any exposure to new perspectives on running a successful business is valuable, and (2) the process of creating a business plan and starting a business can be viewed as a large project plan with resources, dependencies, risks, deliverables, budget, schedule, and more project facets. Interesting course - thank you.

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