Financial projections

Planning of the processes and operations helps to clarify the practical, day-to-day activities that will occur in the program. This type of planning provides critical information needed in later steps of the business planning process (i.e., for development of financial projections). 

The pharmacy already had a private counseling area, and he figured that he could use some of the resources he had obtained for the pediatric asthma service for a diabetes service. When he told his pharmacy manager about his idea, she seemed excited, especially given the potential for the service to attract new customers to the pharmacy. She did stress that her budget to support this service was limited and that he would have to provide more financial projections that she could share with her district manager before she could commit to support the service. 

Financial projections are often one of the most scrutinized aspects of an innovation Project Charter, especially when executives are trying to select which few innovation projects to fund. Almost all financial projections include estimates of revenue. Or, you can estimate profitability using Innovation Financial Management (Technique 11). Either way, the financial projections listed on the Project Charter should be estimated from the point your innovation will be available to customers, and should align with the company s current accounting periodicity (monthly, quarterly, annually). 

Assigning monetary values to other considerations may be difficult or impossible. Process flexibility and equipment availability may be critical. For instance, to accommodate beneficial trade considerations it may be desirable to manufacture a product in another country, whereas a route that uses locally available equipment may be selected. Financial projections may be necessary to decide whether... 

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Currently, most decisions are either intuitive or are treated like financial projects. This method calls on top management for a more disciplined approach. This increases the complexity of the screening job but should produce a portfolio that makes the best use of scarce resources. 

A business plan is a document summarizing every aspect of the development of the idea that you have and how you wiU take it to market. It will include financial requirements and financial projections too. They are two types of business plans. 

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