For the purposes of this curriculum, we will concentrate on thefinancialand funding request portionsof the plan for your small business. Your financial plan shall tie well to the company that you introduced in Week 3's Executive Summary.

Although each plan will be unique, depending on business sector, location, stage of development, and so forth, all plans should include the following:

• Introduction for the paper
• discussion of whether cash or accrual basis accounting will be used
• discussion of the type of accounting and finance software will be used
• discussion of all sources of financing amounts, purposes and amounts of funding plan to be raised
• Balance sheet presentation & discussion of assumptions in the Balance Sheet (Existing Business: historic and one-yearpro formaprojections / Start-Up: one-year pro forma projection)- acceptable in Excel document as well
• Income statementpresentation 7 discussion of assumptions in the Income Statement (Existing Business: historic and one-yearpro formaprojections / Start-Up: one-year pro forma projection)- acceptable in Excel document as well
• 12-month Pro-formaCash Flow Projection & discussion of assumptions in the 12-month Cash Flow Projection (including accounts of cash receipt and cash expenditures)- acceptable in Excel document as well**When preparing income, balance sheet, and cash flow projection,provide descriptive assumptions for all accounts relevant to your business activities.
• Ratio analysis (present your calculation and discuss the purpose of each ratio for your business analysis for one of each financial ratio of profitability, liquidity, leverage and efficiency - a total of 4 financial ratios)
• Executive Summary (update when necessary or submit your Executive Summary already prepared in Week 3)
• Conclusion of your company's financial plan