Hurdle: The Book on Business Planning

Clear the Planning Hurdle

The Hurdle book is Tim Berry's latest, a practical step-by-step guide to a business plan you can take to the bank and implement in your company. The Hurdle book includes a 53 page workbook to capture your information as you progress through your business plan. Do it Yourself

Learn how to develop a complete business plan, with text, tables, and charts, in simple understandable steps. Learn how to understand business numbers. Everything you need, from profit and loss to cash flow to balance sheet and ratios, all laid out in simple terms and practical examples. Learn to Manage and Implement Your Plan

Includes concrete, detailed advice on how to actually manage and implement your plan. Also includes two sample plans, plan comparisons, as well as sections on starting your business, financing a business, and running your business.

Tim Berry wrote the CPA's Guide to Business Planning, published in 1998 by Harcourt Brace Professional Publishing. His other books on business planning with spreadsheets were published in the 1980s by Dow-Jones-Irwin, Microtext/McGraw-Hill, and Hayden Books. His business software has been published by Palo Alto Software and M&T Publishing. He has been a professional business planner since 1974, as an employee of Business International and vice president of Creative Strategies, as a consultant to Apple Computer, as a member of the board of directors of Borland International, and as president and founder of Palo Alto Software. He has given seminars on business planning in 10 countries on three continents.

Berry holds a Stanford MBA degree, an MA with honors from the University of Oregon, and a BA magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame.