Blank Business Report Template

BUSINESS REPORT TEMPLATE

1.1 Introduction

• Name of your mini-company & outline your business idea

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1.2 Summary

Give a summary of your business including:

• Was your choice of product/service a good one?

• Where did you get your idea from?

• What skills did you already have and what skills did you have to learn?

• Who were your customers?

• How did you promote your product/service?

• What risk, if any, did you take?

• What difficulties did you have to overcome?

• Did you make a profit or a loss?

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1.3 Business Structure

In this section you should:

• Identify all the members of our team

• Explain who did what roles in your mini-company

• Include an organization chart

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1.4 Products / Services

In this section you should:

• Describe your product/service and include photographs

• Explain what was innovative about your product/service

• Did you have to make any adjustments as a result of your market research?

• Describe how you produced the product/service, using sketches if necessary.

• Describe any difficulties you came across and how you dealt with them.

• Explain how you came up with the price for your product.

• What were the unit prices for each product

• You can also include a SWOT analysis here

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1.5 Marketing/Promotion

In this section you should:

• Describe the customers you were targeting

• Did these customers actually purchase the product/service?

• Did you have to make adjustments to meet customer requirements?

• What market research did you carry out? Include graphs of your findings.

• Include your marketing plan in this section.

• Who were your competitors?

• How did you promote your mini-company?

• Give examples of promotional materials used.

• Did you use networking as a means of getting customers?

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1.6 Finance

• How did you finance the set up of your mini-company?

• Have you included cash-flow forecasts?

• Have you included details of your pricing?

• Include a profit & loss account.

• Include details of stock on hand, orders pre-paid.

• Include pie charts or graphs in this section to demonstrate, for example, the level of sales achieved at different times

and/or sales for different product lines.

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1.7 Review/Conclusion

• How did you get on as a team?

• Did you have to overcome any difficulties while working as a team?

• How did you solve any conflicts that arose?

• Did you develop new skills? Give examples.

• Will your business continue trading?

• What was the best advice you were given during this process?

• What advice would you give to other students thinking of participating in the SEAs?

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Fillable Printable Blank Business Report Template

Fillable Printable Blank Business Report Template