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• BUS 437 Week 1 Assignment Company Description

• BUS 437 Entire Course

• Company Description. You will be developing the
  components of your Final Business Plan with each
  weekly assignment. Be sure to choose your
  business carefully, as you will not be able to
  switch later in the course. Submit the following
  section of your business plan
• Company Description What business will you be
  in? What will you do? Describe in a 2-3 page APA
  paper each of the following elements

• BUS 437 Week 1 Assignment Company Description
• BUS 437 Week 1 DQ 1 Writing the Business Plan
• BUS 437 Week 1 DQ 2 Using Outside Help to Write
  the Plan
• BUS 437 Week 2 Assignment Marketing Section
• BUS 437 Week 2 DQ 1 Customer Survey
• BUS 437 Week 2 DQ 2 Industry Analysis
• BUS 437 Week 3 Assignment Strategy, Implementation

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• BUS 437 Week 1 DQ 2 Using Outside Help to Write th

• BUS 437 Week 1 DQ 1 Writing the Business Plan

• Using Outside Help to Write the Plan. Respond to
  the following What are the benefits and
  liabilities of using a software package to help
  write a business plan or hiring consultants to
  write the business plan for you? Respond to at
  least two of your classmates postings

• Writing the Business Plan. It is often stated
  that the process of writing a business plan is as
  important as the plan itself. Provide a rationale
  for agreement or disagreement to this statement.
  What is potentially gained from the writing
  process? Respond to at least two of your
  classmates postings.

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• BUS 437 Week 2 DQ 1 Customer Survey

• BUS 437 Week 2 Assignment Marketing Section

• Customer Survey. Develop a one paragraph overview
  of your product or service. Then, identify at
  least five questions to include in a customer
  survey. Respond to at least two of your
  classmates and critique the questions developed
  to determine if their questions will address
  customer benefits of their product
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• Marketing Section. In a 2-3 page APA paper,
  submit the following sections of your business
  plan
• Product or Service
• ? Describe your product or service and the
  benefits it will provide for customers.
• ? Describe the industry and how you will position
  your company.
• Market Analysis

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• BUS 437 Week 3 Assignment Strategy

• BUS 437 Week 2 DQ 2 Industry Analysis

• Strategy, Implementation, Management Sections.
  In a 2-3 page APA paper, submit the following
  sections of your business plan
• Strategy and Implementation
• Describe your most important company
  competitive strengths and core competencies.
• Develop an operations flow diagram to show the
  key steps in the production of a product or the
  delivery of a service.

• Industry Analysis. Identify two attractive
  (growth) and two unattractive (dying) industries
  to enter into as a new entrepreneur. Provide your
  reasons for the selections. Respond to at least
  two of your classmates postings

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• BUS 437 Week 3 DQ 2 Operations Model

• BUS 437 Week 3 DQ 1 Implementation

• Operations Model. Why do you think an operations
  model can serve as the cornerstone of the success
  of a new venture? Identify one company that has
  developed a unique operating model (as an
  example, Dell developed a very unique operating
  model to sell customized computers online).
  Respond to at least two of your classmates
  postings

• Implementation. There is a vast difference
  between thinking up a new product idea and
  actually designing and manufacturing the product.
  Explain the nature and importance of this
  difference. Why do you think this task is more
  difficult than anticipated? Respond to at least
  two of your classmates postings

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• BUS 437 Week 4 DQ 1 Sequence of Information

• BUS 437 Week 4 Assignment Finance Section

• Sequence of Information. Your friend is getting
  ready to write a business plan for a new
  business. Your friend told you the plans are to
  prepare the financial statements first to get
  that job out of the way before the rest of the
  plan is developed. Explain the flaw in this
  approach. What value does it provide the
  entrepreneur to write the financial section as
  the last part of the business plan? Respond to at
  least two of your classmates postings.

• Finance Section. In a 2-3 page APA paper, submit
  the following segment of your business plan
• Financial Plan Include material on the
  following
• 1. Source and use of funds sheet (how much money
  a firm needs, how it will raise money, and what
  the money will be used for)
• 2. Assumptions sheet (explanation of the most
  critical assumptions that your financial
  statements are based on)
• 3. Pro Forma Income Statement
• 4. Balance Sheet

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• BUS 437 Week 5 Business Plan Final

• BUS 437 Week 4 DQ 2 Financial Projections

• Focus of the Business Plan
• 1. Executive Summary
• a. A page of plan highlights
• 2. Company Description
• a. What business will you be in? What will you
  do? Describe the following elements
• Mission Statement
• Company Goals and Objectives
• Business Philosophy
• Legal form of ownership

• Financial Projections. Respond to your friends
  question How in the world do you project income
  and expenses for a business that doesnt exist?
  Respond to at least two of your classmates
  postings.

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• BUS 437 Week 5 DQ 2 Presentation Concerns

• BUS 437 Week 5 DQ 1 Slogan

• Presentation Concerns. Identify your biggest
  concern in developing a business plan
  presentation. Describe how you will overcome your
  concern. Provide advice to two other classmates
  on possible ways to overcome their concerns.

• Slogan. In order to develop your business plan
  presentation you believe it will be important to
  develop a catchy slogan to describe your
  business. Share your slogan with your classmates
  and critique the slogans presented by two of your
  classmates.

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