The business plan: structure, assumptions, scenarios, with your own figures
A business plan is not a document for the bank: it is first of all a document for you. It forces you to write down in black and white what you assume (the weight at sale, the feed conversion ratio, the mortality, the number of flocks) and to look at what happens if one of those assumptions is wrong. Level 5 taught you how to finance a house; this lesson teaches you how to write the complete file of a farm, from the summary to the scenarios, setting out every quantity in chickens, kilos and days. The amounts, you will put in yourself: the method is the same for everyone, prices never are.
14 min read · 5-question quiz at the end
By Abdul Hussein ChoumanFounder of NEXTEKCI · Agnibilékrou hatchery since 2006This lesson is part of Level 15 — Expert adviser: project, audit and passing it on. It opens to registered students who have passed the level 14 exam. Levels 1 to 5 and the tracks remain readable by everyone.
- ✓Write a complete poultry business plan following a structure in eight parts
- ✓Tell an assumption from a result, and write each assumption with its source
- ✓Build three scenarios (pessimistic, realistic, optimistic) from the technical indicators
- ✓Measure the project’s sensitivity to the feed conversion ratio and to mortality, and draw the points to watch