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Preparing a Business Plan/Project Report
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A Business Plan/Project
Report submitted to NEDFi for consideration should include the
following information:
1. Description of the
project.
2. Promoters, Management
and Technical Assistance:
- Detailed Biodata of promoters
including financial information.
- Proposed management arrangements.
- Description of technical
arrangements (management, production, marketing, finance etc.).
3. Market and sales:
- Basic market orientation: local,
national, regional, or export.
- Projected production volumes, unit
prices, sales objectives, and market share of proposed venture.
- Potential users of products and
distribution channels to be used. Present sources of supply for
products.
- Future competition and possibility
that market may be satisfied by substitute products.
- Tariff protection or import
restrictions affecting products.
- Critical factors that determine
market potential.
4. Technical feasibility,
manpower, raw material resources, and environment:
- Brief description of manufacturing
process.
- Comments on special technical
complexities and need for know-how and special skills.
- Possible suppliers of equipment.
Ideally three competitive quotations to be enclosed.
- Availability of manpower and of
infrastructure facilities (transport and communications, power,
water, etc.).
- Breakdown of projected operating
costs by major categories of expenditures.
- Source, cost, and quality of raw
material supply and relations with support industries.
- Import restrictions on required raw
materials.
- Proposed plant location in relation
to suppliers, markets, infrastructure and manpower.
- Proposed plant size in comparison
with other known plants.
- Potential environmental issues and
how these issues are addressed.
5. Investment
requirements, project financing, and returns:
- Estimate of total project cost,
broken down into land, construction of buildings and civil works,
plant and machinery, miscellaneous fixed assets, preliminary and
preoperative expenses and working capital.
- Proposed financial structure of
venture, indicating expected sources and terms of equity and debt
financing.
- Type of NEDFi financing (loan,
equity, quasi-equity, a combination of financial products,
etc.) and amount.
- Projected financial statement,
information on profitability, and return on investment.
- Critical factors determining
profitability.
6. Government support and
regulations:
- Project in context of government
economic development and investment program.
- Specific government incentives and
support available to project.
- Expected contribution of project to
economic development.
- Outline of government regulations on
exchange controls and conditions of capital entry and
repatriation.
7. Timetable envisaged for
project preparation and completion.
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