CHAPTER 3

Describe Your Business

The Context

It is valuable to set out the context in which you are working so that others can see how and why the documents have been produced. This is, of course, the easy bit as it is your business, and if you don’t know about it then who does?

You can use this checklist as a guide or as a prompt list for collecting and organizing data from various sources. Checklist 1 is intended to help you reflect on where you are at present, the way you organize and manage the business generally.

It is the sort of information you would put together as a summary or introduction to a business plan when applying to banks or other financial institutions for funding, or indeed as part of an annual report for shareholders. Depending ...

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