Category: Business Plan

UK FCA Regulatory Objectives and Focus for 2023 and 2024

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) 2023/24 Business Plan (Business Plan) sets out the FCA’s aim to be viewed as a proactive, assertive and robust regulator, especially in its protection of retail consumers.

Released on 5 April 2023, the Business Plan establishes the FCA’s priorities for the coming year and how it is going to deliver on the second year of its 2022-2025 Strategy. This strategy established the FCA’s intention to act more assertively and test the limits of its powers. The details of this year’s Business Plan elaborate on how it will do so.

Some of the key elements of

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The Do’s And Don’ts Of Operating And Managing Rental Properties

Steve Davis, CEO — Total Wealth Academy.

My experience with operating and managing rental properties began with one little house. Within four years, I was managing over 100 single-family homes. I was rather aggressive with this new business endeavor because I had taken a significant pay cut at work and was looking to establish a second stream of income. As a result, I learned a lot rather quickly from both failures and successes.

If you are looking to make money from operating and managing rental properties, here are some do’s and don’ts that I have found to be

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College dreams and teen love find unite in RaeChell Garrett’s ‘Promposal’ : NPR

Cover of Proposal
Cover of Proposal

“Promposal,” a term born within the last dozen or so years, is exactly what one would imagine it to be: an invitation to the prom that’s wedding-proposal-level romantic and often very public.

From rooms full of balloons and lockers filled with ping pong balls to song and dance routines that would make anyone’s heart melt, promposals have become a regular, spectacular high school event. In RaeChell Garrett’s delightful book of the same name, Black teen entrepreneur Autumn Reeves launches a start-up called Promposal Queen, where she is paid to help conceive and execute these elaborate proposals for her fellow classmates.

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Setting the stage for success: Six steps for drafting a business plan

By Danielle Walsh

Whether you are launching a new business, five years in, or beginning to plan for the transition of ownership to the next generation, taking the time to write a proper business plan is certainly a worthwhile feat. This valuable document can help align the expectations of all owners/managers, while also serving as a blueprint for how to run the business and set the pace to achieve its goals.

Indeed, a new year is upon us—a fresh start! Why not kick things off by developing a formalized plan for you, your business partners, and the next generation can

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How To Create A Business From Scratch

Tim Guercio, Founder at Knowmad Enterprises & The Christmas Team.

Starting a business can be an incredibly rewarding experience, both financially and personally. But it also takes a significant amount of dedication and hard work to get a business off the ground. If you’re willing to put in the effort, starting up a business from scratch could lead to significant opportunities. For example, after starting my business installing Christmas lights, I was eventually able to buy my family gifts after beginning with nothing.

Let’s cover some of the key steps for launching your own business and setting yourself

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Essential Tasks to Tick Off Before Launching Your Own Business

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Published March 30, 2023

Essential Tasks to Tick Off Before Launching Your Own Business
Essential Tasks to Tick Off Before Launching Your Own Business

Working with an experienced accounting firm that provides business start-up and company formation services can be ideal, as it is all too easy to forget something or skip past a step that may prove important later down the line.

Examples include selecting the most suitable trading style, registering your business with Companies House and the tax authorities as appropriate, and implementing a bookkeeping and accounting system to enable you to submit tax returns and financial statements.

Creating a Business Plan

Even if you have

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IH says cancer center planning continues despite shelving of funding request – Kamloops News

A top Interior Health official says behind-the-scenes planning for Kamloops cancer care expansion continues despite recently shelving a funding request for a cancer services business plan.

Tracey Rannie, executive director of Royal Island Hospital for Interior Health, was grilled by Thompson Regional Hospital District directors on Thursday about the long-awaited expansion of cancer care services.

“Everyone is passionate about cancer care. There’s lots of work looking at the whole kind of suite of cancer care for the region,” Rannie told reporters after the board meeting.

“There is, you know, planning going on. Nothing’s been approved. But I will

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Do you need a deck to raise from VCs? Not always

How one founder raised from a16z without breaking open PowerPoint

For all the focus on pitch decks (and more than 80 articles on the topic), you’d think that it’s impossible for startups to raise from angels or institutional investors without one. That’s not entirely correct. Here’s why.

Going far enough back into the history of investing, you need a comprehensive business plan to raise funding from institutional investors. The Harvard Business Review has a great guide to how to create one. The exact details of what goes into a business plan vary but often include history, market analyses, strategy, product

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