Business Planning Software for the Mac

Macintosh business planning software enables you to create effective business plans. A business plan identifies your business, its operations and where you expect your business to be over a period of time. The document also shows how you plan to get to that point. Businesses create business plans for different reasons, such as obtaining funds from venture capital firms or angel investors.

Biz Plan Builder

Biz Plan Builder, a Macintosh business plan software, comes with Microsoft Word and Excel templates. The software lets you customize a template to suit your needs. Biz Plan Builder also comes with a book called JIAN Handbook of Business Planning, which supplies you with ideas, advice and suggestions about developing business plans. The hanbook also includes extra tools that show you how to develop and manage your business, whether you obtain financing or not. Biz Plan Builder retails for $149.95 as of December 2010.

Fundable Plans

Fundable Plans, a Web-based software, works by asking you questions about your company's finances such as projected sales and expenses. The software will then compile your information and organize it into a professional presentation. Based on your figures, the software can also generate operating statements, depreciation, cash flow and balance sheets. Fundable Plans allows you to upload and insert graphics into the business plan. You can save your business plan as a PDF document. Fundable Plans supports Mac OS X 10.3 or later. As of November 2010, Fundable Plans costs $39.95.

ExpertBizPlan

ExpertBizPlan asks you questions when you're developing a business plan. It then takes you to its Idea Browser brainstorming engine. This helps you to come up with your own answers. ExpertBizPlan also contains other categories that you will find useful such as the types of nouns and verbs you should use in your business plan. ExpertBizPlan supports Mac OS X 10 or higher. As of December 2010, ExpertBizPlan retails for $79.00.

BizPlan

BizPlan guides you step-by-step on what to write in the major sections of your business plan. The software lets you share your business plan with your business partners and friends. BizPlan provides two types of sharing abilities. You can give your business partners full administrative and editing capabilites. This enables them to add, modify or delete information. You can also have your friends view the business plan.

References

• Jian: Biz Plan Builder Mac
• Fundable Plans: Features and Benefits
• ThoughtOffice: eXpertBizPlan
• BizPlan: The Better Way to Write a Business Plan