Business plan checklist

Is the structure of your business plan content considered and logical?

Does the business plan make an outwardly clean impression?

Has the business plan been checked for spelling?

Does the business plan omit jargon or clearly explain technical terms and abbreviations for every reader?

Have you enclosed important, supplementary documents with your business plan and do you refer to the enclosure in the relevant section?

Is the financial planning convincing in that it contains consistent figures from the sales and cost forecasts?

Do the measures capture everything that costs money (including human resources, marketing, infrastructure, projects) and leads you to your set goals?

Is it easy to grasp which assumptions were used in calculating the financial targets?

Have the target audiences, geographical markets and related sales targets been described in the strategy?

Have the external and internal analyses been condensed into a SWOT analysis?

Have you analysed your own requirements and resources (strengths and weaknesses)?

Have you analysed market conditions (opportunities and threats)?

Is there a long-term objective in the form of a vision?

Are the sense of the business plan and the requests it contains immediately obvious to recipients?