{"id":2244,"date":"2014-03-05T12:37:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T10:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.invest-aura.com\/"},"modified":"2023-03-29T11:18:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T09:18:21","slug":"business-plan-excel-template","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/financial-analysis-templates-and-excel-tools\/business-plan-excel-template\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Business Planning Excel template"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business planning and costing doesn&#8217;t have to be complicated. They aren&#8217;t!\u00a0Investaura is pleased to provide you with this simple Excel template to help you get started.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.invest-aura.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Business_Planning_Made_Easy.png\"><img data-attachment-id=\"2075\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/business-planning-and-costing-free-simple-template\/business_planning_made_easy\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Business_Planning_Made_Easy.png?fit=991%2C842&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"991,842\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Business_Planning_Made_Easy\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Business_Planning_Made_Easy.png?fit=300%2C254&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Business_Planning_Made_Easy.png?fit=720%2C612&amp;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2075 size-full\" title=\"Business_Planning_Made_Easy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.invest-aura.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Business_Planning_Made_Easy.png?resize=720%2C612\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Business_Planning_Made_Easy.png?w=991&amp;ssl=1 991w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Business_Planning_Made_Easy.png?resize=300%2C254&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Business Planning and Costing simple Excel template can be downloaded on our web site &#8216;The Art of Business Planning&#8217;. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-planning-for-managers.com\/goodies\/download-excel-tools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Go to &#8216;The Art of Business Planning&#8217; and download<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Further reading about <strong>Business Planning<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.investaura.co\/training\/finance-for-non-financial-managers\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Finance for non-Financial Managers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.investaura.co\/investaura-new-book\/business-planning-for-managers\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Business Planning for Managers: how to use powerful techniques to write better business plans<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Further reading about <strong>Costing<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.investaura.co\/software\/impliedlogic-stem\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Service costing using STEM business-modelling software<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.investaura.co\/2013\/04\/the-true-cost-of-churn\/\">The true cost of churn<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.investaura.co\/2011\/02\/what-does-service-costing-bring-to-pricing\/\">What does service costing bring to pricing?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business planning and costing doesn&#8217;t have to be complicated. 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