{"id":3086,"date":"2014-10-16T11:05:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T09:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.invest-aura.com\/?page_id=3086"},"modified":"2023-03-29T11:24:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T09:24:20","slug":"comprehensive-business-plan-template-for-telecoms-and-ict","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/financial-analysis-templates-and-excel-tools\/comprehensive-business-plan-template-for-telecoms-and-ict\/","title":{"rendered":"Comprehensive Business Plan Excel template for telecoms and ICT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finding a good business plan template in Excel format can be really hard, for the following reasons:<\/p>\n<p><strong>You need the right\u00a0level of detail.<\/strong>\u00a0More often than not, the templates provided by others (your\u00a0corporate HQs, your boss, you name it) are much too detailed &#8211; if you work for a large company, you know what I mean. In those horrible templates, you really wonder who might ever read the hundreds and thousands of rows that try to forecast what could happen 10 years down the road&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 300; font-style: inherit; color: inherit;\"><a style=\"color: #0066cc;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.invest-aura.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bus_Plan.png\"><img data-attachment-id=\"3080\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/business-planning-template-in-excel-for-the-telecoms-and-ict-industry\/bus_plan\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bus_Plan.png?fit=595%2C670&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"595,670\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" 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=\"Bus_Plan\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bus_Plan.png?fit=266%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bus_Plan.png?fit=595%2C670&amp;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3080\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.invest-aura.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bus_Plan.png?resize=271%2C306\" alt=\"Bus_Plan\" width=\"271\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bus_Plan.png?w=595&amp;ssl=1 595w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bus_Plan.png?resize=266%2C300&amp;ssl=1 266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you are looking at an existing business,\u00a0<\/strong><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; color: inherit;\">the financial projections should also take the recent past\u00a0into account<\/strong>. Too often, the templates don&#8217;t seem to care about what happened in the last couple of years. If you haven&#8217;t analysed the recent performance of the company, how can you pretend that your 7-10 year forecast is realistic?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Forecasting &#8216;costs&#8217; is hard, but forecasting markets and revenues is really a lot harder.<\/strong> One way to address this problem is to forecast the\u00a0market\u00a0in two different manners: by regions \/ countries on one hand, and by products \/ product lines on the other hand. And then reconcile them so that the two\u00a0projections are aligned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, the financial plan must\u00a0look good.<\/strong> Not only it must support the story that you are trying to sell (to your management, or to investors), but\u00a0it must also be visually appealing.<\/p>\n<p>In the ICT industry, there are quite a lot of\u00a0software and service businesses\u00a0(as well as hardware, for sure), with the added charm that\u00a0gross margins can be (very) high, and\u00a0working capital requirements low\u00a0(who doesn&#8217;t love prepayments or annual software \/ service fees paid upfront?). So we have reflected these salient features of the ICT industry in the template below.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the template in PDF format!<\/p>\n<p>[download id=&#8221;3012&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To download the Business Plan template in Excel, you need to register as a <strong>\u2018Business Plan Starter\u2019<\/strong> or <strong>&#8216;Business Plan Advanced&#8217;<\/strong> member on our web site \u2018The Art of Business Planning\u2019. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-planning-for-managers.com\/become-member-free\/membership-levels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Go to the registration page<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding a good business plan template in Excel format can be really hard, for the following reasons: You need the right\u00a0level of detail.\u00a0More often than not, the templates provided by others (your\u00a0corporate HQs, your boss, you name it) are much&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-container\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/financial-analysis-templates-and-excel-tools\/comprehensive-business-plan-template-for-telecoms-and-ict\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4195,"parent":2777,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Comprehensive Business Plan Excel template for telecoms and ICT | Investaura<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/financial-analysis-templates-and-excel-tools\/comprehensive-business-plan-template-for-telecoms-and-ict\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Comprehensive Business Plan Excel template for telecoms and ICT | Investaura\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Finding a good business plan template in Excel format can be really hard, for the following reasons: You need the right\u00a0level of detail.\u00a0More often than not, the templates provided by others (your\u00a0corporate HQs, your boss, you name it) are much... 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