The Prentice Hall Encyclopedia of Model Business Plans [Paperback]

Wilbur Cross (Author), Alice M. Richey (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 30, 1998

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Press (September 30, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735200246
• ISBN-13: 978-0735200241
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,112,427 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worst book about business plans. Prentice Hall can do better, March 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Prentice Hall Encyclopedia of Model Business Plans (Paperback)

It is hard to imagine that Prentice Hall allowed this book to be published in its current form. It is close to useless in helping a reader prepare a business plan. The examples are only the introduction to plans with a gratuitous copy of SBA work sheets. These can be obtained for free from the SBA and are more useful.

Many plans are only partially written, as if they were introductory thoughts to the chapter. Some plans are only a few paragraphs.

The internet references are a direct download of amazon.com. I hope permission was granted to use them.

5.0 out of 5 stars Impressive array of model business plans to adapt, October 28, 1998

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This review is from: The Prentice Hall Encyclopedia of Model Business Plans (Paperback)

With more than 60 model business plans to choose from, the reader can readily draw up their own, made easier by the accompanying CD-ROM. The sample plans include retailers, small service firms, small manufacturers,home-based enterprises, research organizations, educational institutions, franchises, nonprofits, importers/exporters, and others. The book also contains an extensive collection of small business resources such as SBDC lists and Internet search results.