BUSINESS PLAN PRO

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• Quick tour
• Standard features
  • Step-by-step guidance
  • Sales forecasts
  • Financing tools
  • Industry research data
  • Print & publish your plan
  • What's new for 11.0
  • Free books & more
• Premier features
  • Business management
  • Business valuation
  • Cash flow planning
  • Custom templates
  • Import from Excel
  • Multi-year planning
  • Plan vs. actuals
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Local editions:

Marketing Plan Pro

Create your marketing plan in only 30 minutes with the Duct Tape Marketing method.

Sales forecast: plan vs. actual

Successful business plans are focused on implementation, not just ideas. Users with the Premier Edition have an additional tracking tool in the Sales Forecast table for Plan vs. Actual comparison.

Paying attention to the variance between your planned sales and costs and your actual results can help you get a better picture of your organization's financial situation. Watching these issues closely can help you correct your course as you go.

Profit and loss: plan vs. actual

Are you meeting your goals and keeping expenses under control? Successful entrepreneurs don't just plan, they follow through, and then track how well their actual business results match their original plan. Users with the Premier Edition have an additional tracking tool in the Profit and Loss table for plan vs. actual comparison.

Understand how your actual sales compare with what you thought your sales would be. The Profit and Loss Plan vs. Actual feature lets you quantify the areas where you are succeeding, and identify parts of the business that may need more attention.

Management dashboard

The management dashboard in the Premier Edition of Business Plan Pro gives you a quick visual overview of how your plan is living up to real-world results. To get the most from the dashboard, enter or import your actual data for sales, cost of sales, expenses, and milestones. The software will automatically compare your current results to your plan and highlight any variances.

Plan vs. actual charts

The plan vs. actual feature in the Premier Edition adds 12 more charts to help you visually track your actual numbers and your variance analysis. Quickly analyze where your real results vary from your original plan.

The Actual and Variance charts draw their data from the corresponding Actual and Variance tables.