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A Detailed Sample Restaurant Sales Forecast

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Remember, there is no single way to forecast any business. Magda was looking at forecasting sales for a small restaurant. The point of this example is simply that Magda has to find a way to make sense of her forecast. Magda should get on a computer and put her forecast in a spreadsheet. It’s often very creative.

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A Detailed Sample Restaurant Sales Forecast

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Tweet The Palo Alto Software team is at the National Restaurant Association Conference this week and Bplans is featuring articles and resources for restaurant owners. Remember, there is no single way to forecast any business. Magda was looking at forecasting sales for a small restaurant. It’s often very creative.

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10 Things I Hated About Your Business Pitch

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Next month I’ll have another round of it, judging both the University of Oregon New Venture Competition and the Rice Business Plan Competition. They remind me of the old days when every software package claimed to be user-friendly (and mine was the only one that really was). I mind all these trendy buzzwords that everybody applies.

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How to Get the Most Out of a Sample Business Plan

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On Bplans and in business planning software like LivePlan, our free sample business plans are all real business plans written by real people. That might have been fine in 2001, but if you were opening a kennel in the state of Oregon today, you’d get in big trouble with those numbers, since you’d be planning to pay your staff $.50

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How to Write a Business Plan for an Outpatient Medical Practice

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Revisit and update it regularly by comparing your forecasts to your actuals and adjusting as necessary. Here’s a brief example: The problem : There is a lack of affordable pediatric and gynecological care available in coastal areas of Lane County, Oregon. Explain your usage of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software in this section.

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How Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) Can Help Your Business

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Many centers also offer access to LivePlan , a business planning software with budgeting, forecasting, and benchmarking capabilities. Usually, they need to revisit their sales forecast , their cash flow (and whether they’re getting paid on time), or some other element of their financial plan. SBDC advisors can help with this.

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Starting a Nonprofit: Chapter 1 of The ‘RIDE Eugene’ Story

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In Oregon, nearly 30 percent of all traffic fatalities are related to drunk driving. Jonathan is doing RIDE’s forecasting and financial planning with LivePlan , a cloud-based business planning software. Right now, prevention is a hassle. But it doesn’t have to be.

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