Wouldn’t you rather prepare business plans that set you apart?
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Investaura is pleased to provide Excel templates and tools that will greatly help you get started: Business Plan for beginners, Business Case for Sales support, Business Plan for the Tech industry, Business Plan for Telecoms, Business Plan and Budgeting, Short-term Planning and Forecasting, Business Plan for M&A and Fundraising, and others.
There is nothing like attending the Investaura seminar on Business Planning and Entrepreneurship. Beyond the theory, you will learn from practitioners and entrepreneurs what it takes to develop a best-in-class business plan, and turn it into a successful business.
Wouldn’t you rather prepare Business Plans that set you apart? Then this book is for you. Whether you are writing a business plan for the first time or need to refresh your current knowledge, you will refer to this guide again and again.
Initially, Microsoft Excel might be enough. But if your needs are complex, you will need a more powerful tool. We recommend using Adaptive Planning (for Budgeting and Planning), STEM (for Business simulation, Capital Budgeting and Costing) or Prodacapo (for Product & Customer Costing, Profitability Analysis and Process Improvement).
The “Art of Business Planning” has just published a brand new, powerful and beautiful Excel template that is the standard template used by our experts for M&A projects. If you are a business owner or an M&A professional, if you…
Investaura Management Consultants is pleased to announce the publication of its new book on Business Planning for Managers and Entrepreneurs (ISBN 978-3-9813734-2-4), written by Pierre A. Lurin, a Managing Partner at Investaura. The paperback edition complements the hardback edition first published…
Finding a good business plan template in Excel format can be really hard, for the following reasons: You need the right level of detail. More often than not, the templates provided by others (your corporate HQs, your boss, you name it) are…
For those of you who don’t have the time and money to go to business school, don’t worry! You can learn Strategy by reading books and putting the lessons learned into practice. Three business school professors have travelled through the…
We love what Sequoia Capital says about Business Plan. The original can be found on their web site, but we are pleased to reproduce it below: We like business plans that present a lot of information in as few words…
There are 4 main categories of financial ratios and KPIs used by financial practitioners, each addressing a specific question: Question 1: “Is the business profitable?” -> Profitability ratios, calculated from the P&L (e.g. Gross margin, EBITDA margin, EBIT margin) Question 2:…