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Business Plans

TENBizPlan: ICM

The Institute of Commercial Management (ICM), a leading UK-based international educational and examining body providing certification for its educational programmes in over 3,000 colleges in more than 100 countries world-wide, has adopted TENBizPlan as the mandatory training materials for its Diploma in Entrepreneurial Business Planning.

The syllabus for the ICM Diploma in Entrepreneurial Business Planning is based on the TENBizPlan training materials, which comprise:

  • The TENBizPlan Approach to Business Planning
    • The Process of Business Planning
    • The Output from the Process
    • The TENBizPlan Approach
    • Using TENBizPlan

  • Personal Assessment
    • What Makes an Entrepreneur?
    • Self-assessment

  • Idea Assessment
    • Defining Your Idea
    • Developing Your Idea
    • Identifying Future Trends
    • Market Research

  • Formalities
    • Legal Structure
    • Business Names
    • Taxation
    • Bank Accounts
    • Licensing
    • Insurance

  • Marketing & Sales
    • Customers
    • Competition
    • Developing a Marketing Direction
    • Image
    • The Marketing Mix
    • Product
    • Place
    • Price
    • Promotion
    • The Marketing Plan
    • Sales Forecasts

  • Process & Resources
    • Business Processes
    • Buying
    • Making
    • Selling
    • Managing
    • Infrastructure
    • Capital Expenditure
    • Expenses

  • People
    • Planning for Staff
    • Recruiting Staff
    • Managing Staff
    • Professional Advisers

  • Finance
    • Types of Finance
    • Equity
    • Loans
    • Subsidies

  • Financial Modelling
    • Getting the Best Plan Possible
    • Key Results Overview
    • Connecting Business to the Financial Statements
    • Break-even Analysis
    • Ratios
    • Sensitivity Analysis
    • “What If?” Exploration
    • The Funding Gap
    • Reducing Risk

  • The Business Plan Document
    • Finalising the Text
    • Backing up the Plan with Evidence
    • Multi-Year Projections
    • Tailoring Your Business Plan
    • Presenting Your Business Plan

To see a sample from one of the TENBizPlan guides, click here.

For more information about TENBizPlan, contact Oak Tree Press.

To review the other approaches to business planning, choose from:

For more information on the ICM Diploma in Entrepreneurial Business Planning, contact the Institute of Commercial Management.