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Business Plan Simplifying Assumptions

Why simplifying assumptions in a business plan? It has do to with diminishing return on effort, not trying to model reality three years into the future in full detail. It's planning, not accounting, and particularly not accounting detail imagined in the future.

By: Tim Berry | AllBusiness.com |

Filed In: Company Strategy and Company Activities & Management

2009-08-21

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