Business Planners Info Shopping Cart Product Selector Page Contents Top of Page 7 . Anticipated As shown in Figure 8 below, financial projections were the most difficult part of plans to research or write for many respondents. For over a quarter of the compilers of the basic plans, all parts of their plans were rated equally difficult. Only a small minority of respondents found no parts too difficult . It speeds up and simplifies the task of compiling projections and allows users to concentrate on deriving assumptions and assessing the resultant projections.
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As shown in Figure 9 below, about two-thirds of the respondents thought that the process of preparing plans was much more difficult or somewhat more difficult than they had expected. For other authors, the compilation of plans was usually much more difficult or somewhat more difficult than anticipated. Business Planners Info Shopping Cart Product Selector Page Contents Top of Page 8 . As shown in Figure 10 below, the compilers of basic plans made lower assessments as to the importance of the plans for their businesses. Only a small minority of respondents attributed limited or no importance to their plans.