On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 4:18 PM, PT <[email protected]> wrote: > This. I have to do one for an accounting class. The instructor has > been a little vague on exactly what he wants, leaving the research to > us. Naturally, I went with what I know, consulting and programming.
An accounting class is probably looking for things like headcount, overhead, etc. Good to map out what types of positions you plan to hire for and in what order. Also, what each head's cost will be. Overhead, including bennies, office space, telecommunications etc... Pretend you are going to get to 50 heads in 2 years or something. If you were REALLY going into business I'd also consider more specifically how you are going to scale out to that size from a cost perspective and also from an implementation perspective. You may get away with everyone using their own cell phone when it's 3 people but then at what point do you need a real phone system? Ever? 10 people? 50 people? How will you handle office space? Virtual? Physical? Multiple offices? How does that impact decisions about phone systems, etc.... If you want to get complicated with it you can. How much do you devote to marketing? What benefits do you give your employees? What benefits do you give owners? Yourself? (keeping in mind that you generally have to offer the same benefits to employees that you give yourself) What is the corporate structure? Full time staff? Contractors? But as they say - the battle plan is only good till the first shot is fired. You can plan all you want but reality will always be different in some way. The marketing plan and competitive analysis could be good too, but if it's an accounting class I would guess they are looking for numbers. -Cameron -- Cameron Childress -- p: 678.637.5072 im: cameroncf facebook <http://www.facebook.com/cameroncf> | twitter<http://twitter.com/cameronc> | google+ <https://profiles.google.com/u/0/117829379451708140985> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:343860 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
