Business planning is an essential component of any successful business but it is often overlooked due to the day to day pressures associated with operating the business. A plan can help you safeguard your investment, focus your efforts, ease external financing problems and provide you with a yardstick against which to measure your progress.

Planning is not a one-time exercise, but a constant evaluation of actual results with anticipated results and of making the required adjustments to make sure you end up where you want to end up, not where you happen to end up. Business planning involves a wide range of issues - products, markets, pricing, packaging, promotion, staffing, etc.

Learn more about Wegner LLP's Business Consulting Services, the various industries we serve, and how we can help.

For more resources on business planning, please visit the following links:

• Wegner Resources
• Center for Business Planning –Planning Guidelines
• SBA – Small Business Planner
• Small Business Advice Service – Business Planning Resources (U.K.)
• CCH Business Owner’s Toolkit:  Planning Your Business
• Year-end Payroll Guide
• Definitions of Classifications