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title: How to create a business plan
description: James shares a video series addressing key business planning topics, including what to cover in strategic and annual plans, and how often to review them.
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 22 June 2021

# How to create a business plan

WRITTEN BYJames Price | JPAbusiness

Business plans don’t have to be lengthy documents, but they do – in our opinion – need to be written down: if you haven’t written it down, you haven’t committed to it.

This video covers some key concepts related to business planning:

 

[![Business Plan image](https://blog.jpabusiness.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/Business%20Plan%20image.png?width=420&name=Business%20Plan%20image.png)](https://landing.jpabusiness.com.au/annual-business-plan-template)

 

For a deeper dive into the process of creating an Annual Business Plan, download our free [Annual Business Plan Template](https://landing.jpabusiness.com.au/annual-business-plan-template).

This detailed template is designed to help you gather and analyse the information necessary to create a robust plan, and bring it together in one document.

And remember, as we always say, a good plan is a shared plan. Your Annual Business Plan should be in the minds of your whole team. If they’re meeting on a monthly basis as a management team, or as supervisors, the meeting should refer to elements of the Plan, because that is the context point around why you're all doing what you’re doing.

Other free resources to help our clients and readers with business planning, include: 

- Business planning for small to mid-sized businesses [eBook](https://landing.jpabusiness.com.au/business-planning-ebook)
- Succession planning – How to future proof your business [eBook ](https://landing.jpabusiness.com.au/succession-planning-future-proof-your-business)
- Succession planning for small to medium-sized businesses [eBook](https://landing.jpabusiness.com.au/succession-planning-for-smbs)

If you would like advice or assistance with strategic, annual or succession planning, [contact the JPAbusiness team](https://landing.jpabusiness.com.au/get-in-touch-with-jpabusiness) on 02 6360 0360 or 02 9893 1803 for a confidential, obligation-free discussion.

 

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About James Price | JPAbusiness James Price has over 30 years’ experience in providing strategic, commercial and valuation advice to Australian and international business clients. James’ blogs provide business advice for aspiring and current small to mid-sized business owners, operators and managers.

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