Business Plan Pro is a software program that allows you to plan, chart and track the growth of your business and your financial goals.

Owning your own business can bring a number of rewards, tangible and intangible, financial and personal. Running a successful business involves a number of factors, many of which may not be considered at the beginning. Just like any goal that we pursue in life, one must start with the end in mind and a plan to make things happy. Operating your own business is no different.

The only real way to give yourself a head up on the competition and get your endeavor off on the right foot is to develop a concise and concrete business plan. Since this development involves different factors that most entrepreneurs have no way of anticipating, the logical and business savvy step is to seek assistance. PaloAlto’s “Business PlanPro”, provides this help.

Business PlanPro software provides all the necessary tools to ensure the development of a successful business plan. Business PlanPro assists you with areas such as industry analysis, financial statements, break-even analysis, sales forecasts and even with planning for adding personnel.

The software contains the “EasyPlan Wizard”, to lead you through the entire process of writing your business plan. EasyPlan will ask you questions, give suggestions, and provide instructions and examples.

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You also have the capability to utilize Microsoft Office, an industry leader, as a helpful tool. Since most of the business plan is text, Business PlanPro allows you to work hand in hand with Microsoft Word allowing you to edit the documents in Word and import them into Business PlanPro.

In addition, there are built-in linked tables, which are compatible with Microsoft Excel. You simply export the tables to Excel, work on them, and import it to Pro. In a similar fashion, you can use Microsoft PowerPoint. There are a number of tables available, which assist you with sales forecasts, growth rate variables in sales, percent of sales in profit and loss, power variables in profit and loss and can link sales forecast from market forecast tables.

The calculations that can be made will seem limitless. It is as if you have an assistant following you around that can calculate anything you need to know for your business. Finally, Business PlanPro is compatible with QuickBooks Pro which is the small business standard for bookkeeping and accounting. You can import your sales, cost of goods and expense categories, as well as use past data to estimate future results. You can also run “What If” scenarios, such as “what if my customers started paying me net-30 instead of net-20?” The Cash Pilot Tool allows you to run different business scenarios and immediately see the impact on your finances, allowing you to run your business more efficiently.

You can also track your actual results with your goals and ensure that your spending is in line with your budget using the Integrated Management Dashboard. The Integrated Management Dashboard gives you an overview of your business, your plans, and your progress towards your goals. You can easily manage your company’s finances and objectives, and then export all of your data into Microsoft PowerPoint.

BusinessPlan Pro also makes it easy to translate your reports from English to Spanish or vice versa. The Plan Setup Option can change your financial tables and plan outline easily from one language to the other.

Starting and surviving in business is difficult enough without having all the tools you need. BusinessPlan Pro provides the would be entrepreneur and existing entrepreneurs with all the tools necessary to develop and maintain a solid, viable, and successful business plan.

If you need additional help with formulating a business plan, try visiting the following resources:

• BPlans.com – Business Planning Website – The makers of business plan pro also have a website that features a ton of information for the new business owner and features tons of sample business plans.