The Prentice Hall encyclopedia of model business plans

This practical business plan kit gives you over 60 readily-adaptable model business plans drawn from real life, covering a wide variety of operations, from retail, service, and franchise to manufacturing, research organizations, and nonprofits. The CD-ROM included helps you quickly and easily adapt any of the materials to your own use. You'll find tips and techniques for making winning presentations. Numerous forms and checklists help you quickly determine important factors such as short-term and long-term goals, financial needs, physical structure, personnel requirements, marketing procedures, management policies, and location. In addition, you get invaluable source lists of small business associations such as the National Federation of Independent Business and National Association for the Self-Employed, as well as business schools, and government agencies.