SmartZena, My week 5 Assignment

Part Two: Business Plan Project, Week 5, and Comprehensive Presentation Summary

Continue to work on your business plan. This week, you will be research franchising opportunities for your business, and the possibility of including venture capital as a source of funds. You will complete your business plan and prepare both a comprehensive report and presentation on your decisions and findings during this course.

Required:

1. Research and describe possible opportunities for franchising your business. Would you consider franchising your small business? Why or why not?

1. Research and describe possible opportunities for venture capital as a source of funding for small business. Would you consider venture capital to be a viable source of funds for your business? Why or why not?

1. Complete your business plan and submit a comprehensive report that integrates all decisions from earlier sections of the plan.

1. Construct a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation that summarizes the findings of your Business Plan Project over all five weeks.

Deliverables:

1. By Tuesday, November 18, 2014, address the issues for the Business Plan Project, Week 5 outlined in Part Two items 1 and 2, using an MS Word document, and submit your document to the W5: Assignment 2 Dropbox. Use good form, and cite all sources using APA format.

Name your document SU_FIN4055_W5_A2_Part2_LastName_FirstInitial

1. By Tuesday, November 18, 2014, create a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation consisting of 10-20 slides that summarizes your findings for theBusiness Plan Project over all five weeks. Post this assignment in the W5 Assignment 2 Dropbox. Use good form, and cite all sources using APA format

Name your document SU_FIN4055_W5_A2_Presentation_LastName_FirstInitial

Previous weeks assignment requiremnts below:

Part Two: Business Plan, Term Project: Week 1

Required:

You will be creating a business plan for a small business. You can begin your research for the project by looking at the information on the Small Business Administration Web site.

Decide what business you will be starting, which organizational style will be best for your business, and what various funding sources are available to you. Document your initial thoughts on funding, knowing that this might change as the course progresses.

Choose a business that manufactures a product in some quantity such as furniture, toys, or small appliances such as toasters, telephones, or electronics. The business cannot be a home-based business or a service-based business. If you are having trouble deciding on a business, you may use a business that manufactures the newest technology in handheld computing devices.

As you progress through the project, you should document all resources used while starting your business. For example, the Small Business Administration is a good resource and most states have resources for small business owners.

For this week, you need to document at least 3 resources, including the SBA Web site, which you used to complete the assignment. List the resources and explain briefly how they were useful to you in your research.

Part Two: Business Plan Project, Week 2

Required:

Continue working on your business plan. This week, you should create pro-forma financial statements for the first five years of operations. Document all your assumptions and support your use of the assumptions.

Part Two: Business Plan Project, Week 3, and Presentation Summary

Continue to work on your business plan. This week, you will be working on capital expenditures and the sources of funding to finance them.

Required:

1. Your business plan should include at least one major capital expenditure. Decide when it will be purchased and how it will be funded. The documentation should include your analysis of the project and your basis for making the investment, and the timing of investment.

1. Decide on your sources of funding, describe them, and justify your decision. You may fund part of the business with your personal savings, but you should also include at least one additional source of funds to complete the funding.

1. Last week, you worked on pro forma financial statements. Update your projected financial statements to reflect the capital expenditure and the sources of funding.

1. Prepare a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation that summarizes your findings for your Business Plan Project to date.

Part Two: Business Plan Project, Week 4

Continue to work on your business plan. This week, you will analyze international opportunities for your business as a part of your marketing strategy.

Required:

1. Discuss and defend your position to market only domestically or both domestically and internationally.

1. Identify the point at which it will be best to market internationally, even if that point will not be reached during the timeframe of the projected financials included in the plan.

1. Update your projected financial statements to reflect the cost of marketing. If you have chosen to market both domestically and internationally, be sure to include the impact of any foreign presence in your marketing costs.