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Level 5 Diploma in Accounting and Business

Business planning: financial projections

AB506 · Business Start-up: Conception to Market — Week 9 of 16

CourseAB506
Week9 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Business planning: financial projections

  1. Cash flow forecasts
  2. Break-even and profitability analysis
  3. Sales forecasting methods
  4. Start-up capital budgets
  5. Using a Cash Flow Forecast in Business Planning
  6. Cash budgets - ACCA Financial Management (FM)
  7. How to Produce a Break Even Analysis

What you will be able to do

  • 3.1 Produce a business plan for a start-up business.

Activity

Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: produce a business plan for a start-up business.

Study materials

Videos

  • Using a Cash Flow Forecast in Business Planning · YouTube · Galton College · 16 min · for registered students
  • Cash budgets - ACCA Financial Management (FM) · YouTube · OpenTuition · 26 min · for registered students
  • How to Produce a Break Even Analysis · YouTube · Galton College · 10 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Entrepreneurship, ch. 9.4: Start-up financial statements and cash flow projections · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 334–346 · for registered students
  • Principles of Finance 2e, ch. 18: Financial Forecasting · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 537–566 · for registered students
  • Principles of Accounting Vol. 2, ch. 3.1–3.2: Contribution and break-even (incl. charts) · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 118–134 · for registered students
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MidtermWeek 10
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Entrepreneurial capabilities and skills
  • Week 2: Resource acquisition for start-ups
  • Week 3: Legal structures and regulatory compliance
  • Week 4: Financial support and capital structures
  • Week 5: Government enterprise support
  • Week 6: Non-government and non-financial support
  • Week 7: Business planning: operational and market strategy
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Business planning: financial projections
  • Week 10: Business plan integration and feasibility
  • Week 11: Stakeholder communication and pitching
  • Week 12: Applying Business Start-up in practice: case studies
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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