PREPARING A BUSINESS PLAN (TERM PAPER FORMATS)

  Business plans come in many shapes and sizes. Click on the link to the left to see a list of essential topics that you should include within you plan (including due dates). Once you have covered these topics, you should refer to industry-related business plans to see if there are other pertinent topics that need to be addressed.

Useful Links
Business Development Bank of Canada: Business Plan Guide

TACC (provides extensive list of great references)

Google Docs List: samples of numerous business plans

 


Sample Business Plan (from BDC)

Sample 2: Business Plan (includes explanations)


Financial Statement Sample (from BDC)

VIDEO TUTORIALS

Using Premium Features in Word & Excel For a Professionally Scultped Result

The following video tutorials will teach you how to use a variety of less commonly know features in MS Word & Excel to produce a 10-page university style document (i.e., APA).

Lesson 1 (14 minutes), reviews the outline feature for ogranizing your thought, tagging your headings and sub-headings so that you can generate a table of contents with ease, and customizing the styles of you levels to suit a given look (eg. APA, MLA, etc).

Lesson 2 will look at a variety of page layout and table options.

Lesson 3 will demonstrate how to produce charts and tables in Excel and linking them into your Word document so that any changes made to the spreadsheet are automatically updated in Word.