You are employed by an organisation as a bookkeeper and have been asked to create a strategic plan to guide the organisation through the next five years. You consider this to be outside your brief as a bookkeeper and after consulting with the management find they have no one else they believe capable of creating or coordinating the development of the strategic plan.

The organisations management accept creating a strategic plan is not a part of a bookkeepers duties, so have asked you to locate somebody who will be able to create a plan on their behalf.

1. What appropriate expert services could be used by your business? Discuss in 100120 words.
2. Explain how you would identify someone who can create a strategic plan. Discuss in 5080 words.
3. Conduct a search and provide a short list of the people you would contact regarding the strategic plan. (Do not contact the organisations you deem suitable.) Discuss in 5080 words.