Introduction To Business Planchapter6
Introduction To Business Planchapter6
Chapter 6
• The entrepreneur must be very clear about the
purpose in establishing the enterprise.
• The enterprise must state its mission statement clearly
for:
The sake of customers being wooed;
The investors who need to know what they are getting
into;
The financiers evaluating the enterprise; and
The government functionaries who must regulate the
activities of industries and businesses.
A company of angels
• Having a very good business plan is a wise thing to do
in order to chart the course of the business properly
and to focus the efforts of the entrepreneur.
Organizing and
structuring the enterprise
• The assets of the entrepreneur are financed by its liabilities.
• These liabilities are composed of: (1) current liabilities such as
suppliers’ credit and other short-term credit; (2) long term debt;
and (3) owner’s equity,
• Capital structure of the enterprise is the way the financial package
is designed.
• Sole proprietorship is the simplest and easiest enterprise to
organized
In sole proprietorship there is no distinction between the owner
and the enterprise.