The Ernst & Young Business Plan Guide

by Patrick T. Pruitt, Jay M. Bornstein, Brian R. Ford, et al.

Book Overview

In today's competitive business environment, a well thought out business plan is more important than ever before. Not only can it assist you in raising the money needed to start or expand a business-by attracting the interest of potential investors-but it can also help you keep tabs on your progress once the business is up and running.

Completely revised and updated to reflect today's dynamic business environment, The Ernst & Young Business...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470112697
• ISBN13: 9780470112694
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Excellent guide

The book includes all the necessary information about business plans, refers to the specific example and different aspects of start-up and existing business.

Great BP Book

This is a great book. Simple to the point advice about developing a business plan.

This book is my bible

This book says it all very concisely, no fluff. I've written three business plans with it. Read a chapter in the book, write a chapter of the plan. The examples are very good. I just hit $1MM in sales on my third try - I give this book a lot of credit for helping me get organized.

Well delivered information neatly and compactly written

I think this book does of a great job of succintly outlining the dos and donts of business plan writing. I also think that the example plan is most instructional. The only thing it could do better is to put in a sample business plan that is based on a services model, rather than a products model. It also could touch on the Internet as a special information resource.

Quick read, yet detailed.

If you're looking for something more than "Business Plans for Dummies" but don't need a textbook this is the book for you. Reads quickly, gives some pertinent details. A sample plan is used to illustrate components and the author comments on its strong and weak points.