List Equipment and Methods
Determine your equipment needs and methods for meeting those needs.
View the Example: Equipment and Methods
Action
If you have set up a working copy of your business plan using the Shell™, this information will be entered under section 4 “Operations” under the heading 4.2 “Equipment and Methods.”
Download the Equipment List Worksheet.
If you set up folders in Step 4, we suggest creating a subfolder in the “Business Plan” folder, called “Worksheets” and saving the following worksheet with the file name equipment_list_year_month_day
- To complete this Element you will need to gather information related to all equipment required to operate as well as the costs and the methods used to acquire the items (purchase, rent, or lease).
- Determine your operational equipment requirements, costs, and methods.
- Determine your office furnishings and supply requirements, costs, and methods. For example, filing cabinets, in-out file baskets or trays, desks, lamps, chairs, shelving, bookcases, staplers, hole punches, file folders, dividers, labels, paper clips, binders, invoice and receipt forms, pens, pencils, paper, telephone message forms, magazine storage boxes, etc.
- Determine your business equipment requirements, costs, and methods. For example, telephone (office, cell), answering machine, personal computers, notebooks, modems, printers, fax machine, photocopier, etc.