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| Websites linked to from this page hopefully will provide information that will help companies better plan. |
| A Management Accounting Information Center article “Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting-related Information on the Internet” attempts to show how the Internet might help management accountants involved in planning, budgeting, and forecasting. Please click the home logo at the top left of this page to access this article. |
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| Writing and using a business plan. |
| Startup company planning. |
| Planning basics. |
| Advanced planning. |
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| A Yahoo Pipes Search Product Business Strategy This Yahoo Pipes Search Product is designed to use several strings of search terms related to business strategy. Added to each string are the keywords you enter. The strings are used simultaneously in the search and then the results are fed into the pipe and filtered. Hopefully, this Yahoo Pipes Search Product identifies useful information that would have taken several hours to find by manually searching using Yahoo Search. Click here to go this Yahoo Pipes product. Right clicking should lead to being able to open in a new window. |
| A Yahoo Pipes Search Product Find Information on the Internet About Your Competitor Use this Yahoo Pipes Search Product to get information on anyone of your competitors. Information provided comes from: a Yahoo Search of the Internet; from social sites Twitter and My Space; from Flickr; and from YouTube. Enter the competitor’s company name in the box and click “Run Pipers”. Competitor information can be important in making planning decisions. Click here to go to this Yahoo Pipes product. Right clicking should lead to being able to open a new window. |
| The graph to the right is a World Bank – Google collaborative project.
Right click on “Explore data” to go to a Google site, where you can select over 150 countries to compare the time to start a business in a country compared to the average world percentage and to other countries. Right click on “World Bank, World Development Indicators” to go to the World Bank website and to their world development indicators databases. The graph should be updated automatically as the World Bank updates their database. |
| The graphs below were created using Google’s graphing tools.
The horizontal bar graph to the left shows four broad categories of capital expenditures and how many of the surveyed companies indicated the category as being their largest capital expenditure during the previous 12 months. The horizontal bar graph to the right shows the percentage of surveyed companies using one of three planning methods for making capital decisions. The data in the graphs are based on a Gallup Organization survey of more than 750 small companies for the National Federation of Independent Business Research Foundation. The results of the survey are found in a 2006 report written by Morris Danielson and Jonathan Scott. Small companies surveyed have fewer than 250 employees. The report can be read by clicking here (PDF file). The data in the graph and in the report should be useful to small company decision-making related to capital projects. |