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Level 1 Business Planning Flashcards

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Types of Business Plan?

Strategic

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Strategy that’s devised to achieve overall goals set by a business, stimulates change management

  1. Identify and approve framework, vision, long term goals & objectives
  2. Position company: marketing capabilityes, technological advantages, available resources
  3. Foundation for tactical plan: achieve goals
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What’s included in a business plan?

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  • Executive summary
  • Marketing strategy
  • Vision statements
  • Products and Services
  • Management Teams
  • Financial forecasts
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How does a business plan help a company remain profitable?

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  • Assist with securing new funding and investment
  • Grow client base and project
  • Highlight key business objectives
  • Assist with responding to change
  • Grow market share
  • Supports accurate forecasting and budgeting
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Functional

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Flatarchy

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Hierarchy

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Divisional Organizational Structure

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How do timesheets work

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Difference between fee earners & non fee earners?

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Fee: QS, Architect, PM
Non Fee: Admin Staff, Bid Staff IT

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Forecasting Techniques?
Subjective forecasting approach?

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Allows forecasters to predict outcomes on their subjective thoughts

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Forecating Techniques?
- Time series forecasting

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A quantitive forecasting

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What is finacial benchmarking?

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Process of assessing your current performance against a peer group of organisations of comparable scale and complexity, enables you to build a case for making changes to support wider business strategy.

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Executive Summary?

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Concise overview of your business plan

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Company description?

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High level view of your business, should explain who you are and how you operate and what your goals are

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Products and services?

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Show your industry knowledge and present conclusions based through market research

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Market Analysis & marketing?

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Summarise your sales and marketing strategy, how you’ll implement them with an operating plan

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Organisation and managament team?

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Outline your companies structure, identifying the owners management team and board of directors

18
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Financial plan and projections

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Developed with a professional accountant after you’ve completed a market analysis and set goals for your company

19
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What is a business plan?

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A document that defines the business objectives and suggests strategies to be undertaken to realised how this will be achieved within a defined time frame.
- The vision
- Objectives and goals
- Strategies and actions

20
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What is included in an appointment document?

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  • Clarification of work scope
  • Agreed fee
  • Terms of business
  • Agreed amendments
21
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SWOT?

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Structure Analysis of The Market: used to analyse internal strength and weakness and external threats and opportunitites to exploit strength and mitigate weaknesses and threats.

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PESTLE?

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Political, Economical, Social, Technological, Environmental: structured method of analysis of key factors influencing markets

23
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A business strategy?

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Outlines the actions and decisions a company plans to take to research its business goals and objectives

24
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A company with high staff turnover may …

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  • Increased recruitment costs
  • Increased training
  • Inconsistent Production/performance
  • Poor staff morale
  • Lower customer satisfaction
25
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Timesheets and fee forecasting

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Enables you to assess the performance of the team/business
Will ensure you can plan your income expenditure correctly

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How can a business monitor its performance?

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  • Setting and assessing goals and targets
  • Monitoring KPS
  • Competitor analysis
27
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Explain a sole- practitioner?

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An incorporated business that has just one owner who pays personal income tax on profits earned form the business.

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Explain a partnership?

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A partnership is a formal arrangement by two or more parties to manage and operate a business and share its profits, in particular, a partnership business, all partners share liabilities and profits equally.

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LLP?

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Limited liabiilty partnerships - LLPS are a flexible legal and tax entity that allows partners to benefit from economies of scale by working together while also reducing their liabilities for the actions of other partners

30
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PLC?

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Public limited company which offers shares of stock
Shareholders have limited liability
Allows a company to raise capital

31
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Financial planning (3)

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Budgets, cashflow and financial/audit controls

32
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What are the different forms of business vehicles?

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Sole practictioner, partnership, LLP, limited company and PLC

33
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Vision Statement
V
Mission Statement

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Tomorrow plan: what you want to become?
Mission statement: Today, what to do to achieve it?

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