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in 200 words or more how would a person understand the importance of the financial section and its connectivity with the business plan.
It’s really important to have a substantial financial for a new
project or business. The financial plan with a financial budget
helps guide the day-to-day operations and other decision making of
the business. Financial Forecasting helps to achieve optimum
results and also establishes the benchmark for profits and expenses
It is really important to have financial require for the overall
financial health and efficiency of the business.
The financial section or part of the business would include a
projected profit-and-loss assertion/statement, for upcoming years
and a cash flow statement, a balance sheet which shows the
break-even analysis (or no-profit no-loss instance of business).
The financial plan is important, as it establishes the financial
goals of the company. Financial Planning determines the Feasibility
of the Company in immediate and long run. Creating a business plan
with the accompanying financial plan is really a feasibility study
of what it takes to be successful. If the resources are out of your
reach, if the market is too unstable to sustain with, the financial
plan makes that clear so that we may find that the price the plan
on charging upon products or services is materially higher than
what the competitors charge, or if the price is goes well with the
market, but the manufacturing costs are too high and it will be
difficult to earn a profit.
Financial planning does Variance Analysis to monitor the actual
results against the line-item budget in the financial. Knowing the
assumptions behind the projections is important to find out why the
projections have been missed. In other words, we need to know what
we did right and what went wrong. A better financial plan helps in
forecasting the Financing Requirements of the business - the
forecast financial plan demonstrates how much money is required and
at what time exactly. The financial plan also shows the shortfalls,
adjusts the revenue and expense projections to avoid the shortfall
or make sure that other funds are available to cover any cash
deficit. Obtaining optimum Funds than extravagant, is also one of
the implications of better financial planning. Mostly, Investors
and lenders always try to find the entrepreneur's business plan,
including the financial plan with projections and assumptions
behind the forecast. If the financial plan is unrealistic, a common
mistake with entrepreneurs, there wouldn’t be any outsiders’ inflow
to the business as investments.
Financial planning provides a long-Range View to the business in
such a way to be focused on the crises or issues that must be dealt
with on a daily basis. The financial plan, with its forward looking
focus, allows the business owner to better see what expenditures
need to be made to keep the company on a growth track and to stay
ahead of competitors. The financial plan is a blueprint for
continual improvement in the company’s performance.