From Choice – August 2009
Guide to Business Planning, by Graham Friend and Stefan Zehle. 2nd ed. Bloomberg Press, 2009. (Dist. in USA by Ingram Publishing Services), 282p index afp; ISBN 9781576603284.
Although this work is positioned as a book about writing business plans, Friend and Zehle, business consultants, ended up writing an excellent summary of an undergraduate business curriculum. Their volume contains little new material that cannot be found in other business plan books. What it does instead, and what it does very well, is summarize multiple textbooks' worth of information into a single book. The material is laid out consistent with the US Small Business Administration's suggested business plan outline, and each section is concise. The best chapter, "Market Forecasting," provides excellent tools from which to choose. For an entrepreneur who has not had a business education, this book provides concise, informative tactics. For undergraduate business majors, it organizes and summarizes several course concepts very well and will serve as an excellent business reference to consult after graduation. It differs from other business plan texts (e.g., Successful Business Planning for Entrepreneurs by Jerry Moorman and James Halloran, 2005), with its emphasis on specific tactics to employ in a business plan. Summing Up: Highly recommended.
Upper-division undergraduate students and practitioners.
J. J. Janney, University of Dayton
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