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04-22-2010, 09:13 AM
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| | Advantages of Profit Planning Hi
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Profit planning offers many advantages to your business. The modest investment in time required to develop and implement the plan will pay liberal dividends later. Among the benefits that your business can enjoy from profit planning are the following:
* Performance evaluation. The profit plan provides a continuing standard against which sales performance and cost control can quickly be evaluated.
* Awareness of responsibilities. With the profit plan, personnel are readily aware of their responsibilities for meeting sales objectives, controlling costs, and the like.
* Cost consciousness. Since cost excesses can quickly be identified and planned, expenditures can be compared with budgets even before they are incurred, cost consciousness is increased, reducing unnecessary costs and overspending.
* Disciplined approach to problem-solving. The profit plan permits early detection of potential problems so that their nature and extent are known. With this information, alternate corrective actions can be more easily and accurately evaluated.
* Thinking about the future. Too often, small businesses neglect to plan ahead: thinking about where they are today, where they will be next year, or the year after. As a result, opportunities are overlooked and crises occur that could have been avoided. Development of the profit plan requires thinking about the future so that many problems can be avoided before they arise.
* Financial planning. The profit plan serves as a basis for financial planning. With the information developed from the profit plan, you can anticipate the need for increased investment in receivables, inventory, or facilities as well as any need for additional capital.
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07-07-2010, 10:46 AM
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| | Profit plans are based upon estimates. Inevitably, many conditions you expected when the plan was prepared will change. Crystal balls are often cloudy. The further down the road one attempts to forecast, the cloudier they become. In a year, any number of factors can change, many of them beyond the con*trol of the company. Customers' economic fortunes may decline, suppliers' prices may increase, or suppliers' inability to deliver may disrupt your plan.
The profit plan requires the support of all responsible par*ties. Sales quotas must be agreed upon with those responsible for meeting them. Expense budgets must be agreed upon with the people who must live with them. Without mutual agreement on objectives and budgets, they will quickly be ignored and serve no useful purpose.
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07-11-2010, 08:56 AM
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| | profit planning is a useful process in any business setting, there are some limitations on what can be accomplished. The effectiveness of the planning is only as good as the data that is assembled for use in the process. Should the data be incorrect or incomplete, the results of the planning are highly unlikely to produce the desired results. In addition, if the findings of the process do not result in the implementation of procedures and changes in the relevant areas of the business, the time spent on the profit planning is essentially wasted. For this reason, profit planning should be seen as a starting point for operations and not simply recommendations of what should be done in order to increase profit margins. | 
07-16-2010, 11:47 AM
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| | The profit plan is used in the following ways:
* Evaluating operations. Each time you prepare an income statement, actual sales and costs are compared with those you projected in your original profit plan. This permits detection of areas of unsatisfactory performance so that corrective action can be taken.
* Determining the need for additional resources such as facilities or personnel. For example, the profit plan may show that a sharp increase in expected sales will overload the company's billing personnel. A decision can then be made to add additional invoicing personnel, to retain an EDP service, or to pursue some other alternative.
* Planning purchasing requirements. The volume of expected sales may be more than the business' usual suppliers can handle or expected sales may be sufficient to permit taking advantage of quantity discounts. In either case, advance knowledge of purchasing requirements will permit taking advantage of cost savings and ensure that purchased goods are readily available when needed.
* Anticipating any additional financing needs. With planning, the search for needed funds can begin as early as possible. In this way, financial crises are avoided and financing can be arranged on more favourable terms. | 
08-03-2010, 10:13 AM
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| | The actual process of profit planning involves looking at several key factors relevant to operational expenses. Putting together effective profit plans or budgets requires looking closely at such expenses as labor, raw materials, facilities maintenance and upkeep, and the cost of sales and marketing efforts. By looking closely at each of these areas, it is possible to determine what is required to perform the tasks efficiently, generate the most units for sale, and thus increase the chances of earning decent profits during the period under consideration. | 
08-09-2010, 05:27 PM
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| | Hi
The profit plan is used in the following ways:
* Evaluating operations. Each time you prepare an income statement, actual sales and costs are compared with those you projected in your original profit plan. This permits detection of areas of unsatisfactory performance so that corrective action can be taken.
* Determining the need for additional resources such as facilities or personnel. For example, the profit plan may show that a sharp increase in expected sales will overload the company's billing personnel. A decision can then be made to add additional invoicing personnel, to retain an EDP service, or to pursue some other alternative.
* Planning purchasing requirements. The volume of expected sales may be more than the business' usual suppliers can handle or expected sales may be sufficient to permit taking advantage of quantity discounts. In either case, advance knowledge of purchasing requirements will permit taking advantage of cost savings and ensure that purchased goods are readily available when needed.
* Anticipating any additional financing needs. With planning, the search for needed funds can begin as early as possible. In this way, financial crises are avoided and financing can be arranged on more favourable terms.
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08-23-2010, 11:44 AM
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| | Hi
Profit planning is the process of developing a plan of operation that makes it possible to determine how to arrange the operational budget so that the maximum amount of profit can be generated. There are several common uses for profit planning, with many of them focusing on the wise use of available resources. Along with the many benefits of this type of planning process, there are also a few limitations.
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09-01-2010, 10:33 AM
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| | Hi
The actual process of profit planning involves looking at several key factors relevant to operational expenses. Putting together effective profit plans or budgets requires looking closely at such expenses as labor, raw materials, facilities maintenance and upkeep, and the cost of sales and marketing efforts. By looking closely at each of these areas, it is possible to determine what is required to perform the tasks efficiently, generate the most units for sale, and thus increase the chances of earning decent profits during the period under consideration. Understanding the costs related to production and sales generation also makes it possible to assess current market conditions and design a price model that allows the products to be competitive in the marketplace, but still earn an equitable amount of profit on each unit sold.
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09-02-2010, 05:10 AM
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| | hello
Profit planning offers many advantages to your business. The modest investment in time required to develop and implement the plan will pay liberal dividends later. Among the benefits that your business can enjoy from profit planning are the following:
Performance evaluation. The profit plan provides a continuing standard against which sales performance and cost control can quickly be evaluated.
Awareness of responsibilities. With the profit plan, personnel are readily aware of their responsibilities for meeting sales objectives, controlling costs, and the like.
Cost consciousness. Since cost excesses can quickly be identified and planned, expenditures can be compared with budgets even before they are incurred, cost consciousness is increased, reducing unnecessary costs and overspending.
Disciplined approach to problem-solving. The profit plan permits early detection of potential problems so that their nature and extent are known. With this information, alternate corrective actions can be more easily and accurately evaluated.
Thinking about the future. Too often, small businesses neglect to plan ahead: thinking about where they are today, where they will be next year, or the year after. As a result, opportunities are overlooked and crises occur that could have been avoided. Development of the profit plan requires thinking about the future so that many problems can be avoided before they arise.
Financial planning. The profit plan serves as a basis for financial planning. With the information developed from the profit plan, you can anticipate the need for increased investment in receivables, inventory, or facilities as well as any need for additional capital.
Confidence of lenders and investors. A realistic profit plan, supported by a description of specific steps proposed to achieve sales and profit objectives, will inspire the confidence of potential lenders and investors. This confidence will not only influence their judgment of you as a business manager, but also the prospects of your business' success and its worthiness for a loan or an investment.
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02-27-2012, 05:41 PM
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| | There are several benefits to interesting in profit planning. The most apparent is assessing the overall function for performance. If income for the most lately accomplished interval are unsuccessful of forecasts, this requires an research into what led to the reduced comes back. Changes can then be made to the function to be able to improve the possibilities for greater income in the next interval. |  Sponsored Ads | | Member | | Join Date: LongTime Posts: 1100 | | New Sponsored Ads This message will go away once you are registered. Also, by registering, you will have access to all post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload graphics, and access other special features! Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please Click Here to join our Web Hosting community today! | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes | Linear Mode |
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