It is a management accounting class, so the marketing plan and competitive analysis is part of the project =-/
Thanks for the info all. It helps a lot. ----- "Because I can lie beautiful true things into existence ..." Neil Gaiman on Why I write. On 11/1/2011 5:12 PM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > 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 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:343862 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
