Annie’s Project – Education for Farm Women Annie’s Project – Education for Farm Women a 501(c)(3) organization.

Business Planning Part Two Review of Financial Documents Cut this and put with session two Cut this and put with session two

Review of Homework What did the Balance Sheets tell us? Did the five year trends indicate anything? How did last year’s income compare to five years ago? Other things you discovered?

Evaluating Your Business Efficiency Size Debt My milk stool has three legs

Efficiency How well does the business utilize its resources to generate profits? Getting a bigger truck when you are loosing money on every load you haul won’t help much!

Size Gross income : If you are going to add more people to support, is the operation big enough to do that? Do you need to add more enterprises or expand current enterprises?

Debt The business may be able to serve current debt without any problems but if we expand the operation and use borrowed money, then what does the operation look like? Look at the ability of the business to service additional debt.

Annie’s Project – Education for Farm Women Annie’s Project – Education for Farm Women a 501(c)(3) organization.