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    I stumbled onto an online donnybrook at one of those entrepreneurs’ online discussion boards yesterday. And I just had to smile. People were going just nuts about whether a business plan is needed, what a business plan even is, who should write the plan, and other assorted topics.

    But before I repeat the comments I shared, let me just say that as a CPA with many business clients in the Seattle area I've done a bunch of business planning, have covered the subjects in books I've written like the super-sized version of QuickBooks for Dummies, and also covered the subject rather extensively in my book

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    But before I repeat the comments I shared, let me just say that as a CPA with many business clients in the Seattle area I've done a bunch of business planning, have covered the subjects in books I've written like the super-sized version of QuickBooks for Dummies, and also covered the subject rather extensively in my book

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    But before I repeat the comments I shared, let me just say that as a CPA with many business clients in the Seattle area I've done a bunch of business planning, have covered the subjects in books I've written like the super-sized version of QuickBooks for Dummies, and also covered the subject rather extensively in my book

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    With that as background, let me share a handful of thoughts.

    Not All Business Plans Are Equal

    So here’s a first thought. People often mean different things when they use the phrase “business plan.” Sometimes they just mean a strategy (which could just as well be described in a sentence). Sometimes they mean a 20-25pp document that "sells" a business to new investors or lenders.

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