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(More customer reviews)On the positive side: the program runs as advertised on Windows XP. The heart of the program is seven interlinked spreadsheets that give basic financial highlights in spreadsheets and graphs: plan highlights, break-even analysis, projected profit/loss, cash flow, balance sheet, ratio analysis, and sales forecast. I bought the Premier edition (at $100 more) because it was said to allow importing Excel spreadsheets, which it does: but the less expensive version lets you cut-and-paste Excel spreadsheets and gives you the same results (unless you have some esoteric formulas that you use repeatedly to compute scenarios).
The support materials are voluminous: you get to read a book while you are working on your business plan, in case you don't have an M.B.A.
The negative side is the lack of control over formating and inability to import Acrobat.pdf files. You cannot print a section in landscape (except for the tables that the authors have put into landscape format), as you can do in Word/Excel documents (by declaring non-continuous sections). I wrote to the company about inability to import .pdf files, and the respondent muttered something about Adobe security issues. In regard to formating, you can control basic issues such as font, size, style, etc.; but you cannot insert page breaks, section breaks; and the font formating is somewhat cumbersome.
The program comes marketed with a sister program, Marketing Plan Pro, which I have not yet evaluated. Overall, I found Business Plan Pro Premier to be helpful, except for the $100 extra for "importing" Excel spreadsheets in the "Premier" version. Buy the cheaper version and you'll come out ahead of me.
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Business Plan Pro 2006 is the business plan software for developing a successful, profitable business. Put your ideas on paper and turn them into a viable plan that investors & banks will be attracted to -- this software makes it simple. Advanced collaboration tools -- assign portions of the plan to team members and then combine it all into a complete plan New Wizard-driven Financials that can be exported to Microsoft Word and Excel, PowerPoint, or to Adobe PDF documents Publish to a secure Website and create logins for trusted readers to view your plan
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