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Assessing Viability and Feasibility of Business Ideas
Assessing Viability and Feasibility of Business Ideas
• Supporting Documents
Feasibility Plan
1. Executive Summary
2. Business Concept
3. Marketing Research & Plan
4. Sales forecast
5. Finances
6. Manufacturing and Operations
7. Entrepreneurial Team
Technical and Market Assessment
Conducting a Feasibility Study
Start a new business
Market through
Market direct Market to the Market in Market through
traditional distribution
to the consumer government foreign markets specialty channels
channels
Develop a detailed marketing program for each channel you plan to use
A Typical Feasibility Study
Feasibility Study Contents
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A Typical Feasibility Study
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Feasibility Study Contents
• Determine the funds required to set up your business.
• Develop short-term financial projections including:
Conduct cost • Cash flow forecasts
and profitability • Pro forma profit and loss statements
assessment • Pro forma balance sheet
• Breakeven analysis
400
300
Loss Area
200 Fixed Expenses
100
• Step 2. Categorize the expenses in step 1 into fixed expenses and variable
expenses.
• Step 3. Calculate the ratio of variable expenses to net sales. Then compute
the contribution margin:
• Liquidation of assets
• To pay wages
• To pay taxes
• To pay operating expenses
• To make upcoming debt-reduction payments
• Bill it sooner
• Collect it sooner
• Pay it later
• Negotiate volume and early-pay discounts
• Encourage large orders
FINANCE
• Angel investors
• Venture capital
• Bootstrap financing
Angel investors
• Customers- Your business can use a letter of credit from your customer to
purchase materials without using any company resources. Just like when a
contractor has their customer pay up front and then uses that money to buy
the materials they need to complete the job.
Sole
Partnership Corporation
Proprietorship
Draw up a Draw up
partnership articles of
agreement incorporation
Advantages Disadvantages
• Simple and inexpensive • Unlimited liability
to start • More difficult to obtain
• Individual control over financing
operations • Limited resources and
• All profit to the owner opportunity
• Losses deductible from
any other income
Forms of Business Organization
Partnership
Advantages Disadvantages
• Pooling of financial • Unlimited liability
resources and • Divided authority
talents
• Simplicity and ease
of organization
• Increased ability to
obtain capital
• Potential for growth
Forms of Business Organization
Corporation
Advantages Disadvantages
• Limited liability • Cost
• Continuity of the
business
• Legal formalities
• Easier to raise capital • Inability to flow
• Potential employee losses through to
benefits the shareholders
• Tax advantages • Need for personal
guarantees
Protect Your Idea
• Patents
• Trademarks
• Copyright
• Industrial Designs
• Integrated Circuit
Topographies
Patent
2. Table of Contents
5. Appendices
STEPS FOR STARTING A ENTERPRISE
1. Selection of Product
2. Selection of form of Ownership
3. Selection of Site
4. Designing Capital Structure
5. Acquisition of Manufacturing Knowledge
6. Preparation of Project Report
7. Licenses & Arrangement of Finances
CASE STUDY & DISCUSSIONS