business proposal

TITLE OF PROPOSAL

Subtitle (optional)

Prepared by Author’s Name

Author’s Title or Position

Proposal Distributed December 7, 2016

Prepared for

Recipient’s Name (could be an individual, group, or committee)

Organization’s Name

(It supposed to say “Table of Contents” here, but I’m using Word 2003 with this doc; it will look different if you use Word 2007 or newer).

iii ABSTRACT or EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

iv INTRODUCTION

iv PROBLEM/ISSUE (REQUIRED; you can use a title that tells your reader this section discusses the problem)

iv Subheading Level 3 (example, optional but not necessary)

iv Subheading Level 4 (example, optional but not necessary)

v COSTS

v LAWSUITS

v LOST OPPORTUNITIES

v CONVERSTATION/RESEARCH RELATED TO THIS PROBLEM (REQUIRED)

v PREVIOUS APPROACHES TO SOLVING THIS PROBLEMM (OPTIONAL BUT PERSUASIVE; this can be a LEVEL 1 or a Level 2 Heading)

v FEASIBILITY AND PRACTICALITY (OPTIONAL BUT PERSUASIVE)

v BUDGET (OPTIONAL BUT GOOD IF AVAILABLE)

vi POTENTAIL PROFITS (OPTIONAL BUT GOOD IF AVAILABLE)

vi ETHICAL DILEMMAS AND DIMENSIONS (OPTIONAL BUT PERSUASIVE)

vi CONSEQUENCES OF NOT ACTING (OPTIONAL BUT PERSUASIVE)

vi RECOMMENDATIONS OR SOLUTIONS (REQUIRED, BUT YOU CAN PLACE IT ELSEWHERE IF DESIRED)

vi CONCLUSION (REQUIRED) REFERNECES (APA format) or WORKS CITED (MLA format)

vii REFERNECES (APA format) or WORKS CITED (MLA format)

How to create page numbers in later versions of Word:

· Create/establish your pages (press and hold enter to create several pages).

· Click the “Insert” tab at the top and click “Header”

· Click the Box for “Different First Page”

· Go to the 2nd page and insert the page number in the bottom center

· Right click on the highlighted page number and select “Format Page Number”

· In the dialogue box that comes up, change the page number to Roman Numerals (i, ii, iii)

· Go to the bottom of the 3rd page and click the cursor above the roman numeral that is in the footer (on the page, not in the footer). You select the third page here because it is the last page that will use the Roman Numeral numbers.

· Click on the “Page Layout” tab at the top; then click “Breaks”; click “Section Breaks”; then click “Next Page.”

· On page 4, redo the page numbers at the bottom—highlight the number and right click on it and then format the page # to 1, 2, 3; start the first page of your body with 1.

If the Next Page section break creates another page (and messes up your document), then unclick the “Different First Page” box for the Header; this SHOULD fix the problem.

· ABSTRACT or EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Please write your Abstract (100-250 words) or Executive Summary (about 500 words or one page) here. Please use block style format (left aligned; single spaced; double-space between paragraphs).

INTRODUCTION

Start the body of your proposal here. The first page of your body begins with Arabic numeral “1,” whereas the Table of Contents begins as Roman numeral ii, and the Abstract/Executive Summary page is iii.

PROBLEM/ISSUE (REQUIRED; you can use a title that tells your reader this section discusses the problem)

Problem for Your Company (Subheading Level 2-OPTIONAL BUT HELPFUL)

Subheading Level 3 (example, optional but not necessary)

Subheading Level 4 (example, optional but not necessary)

COSTS

LAWSUITS

LOST OPPORTUNITIES

CONVERSTATION/RESEARCH RELATED TO THIS PROBLEM (REQUIRED)

PREVIOUS APPROACHES TO SOLVING THIS PROBLEMM (OPTIONAL BUT PERSUASIVE; this can be a LEVEL 1 or a Level 2 Heading)

FEASIBILITY AND PRACTICALITY (OPTIONAL BUT PERSUASIVE)

BUDGET (OPTIONAL BUT GOOD IF AVAILABLE)

POTENTAIL PROFITS (OPTIONAL BUT GOOD IF AVAILABLE)

ETHICAL DILEMMAS AND DIMENSIONS (OPTIONAL BUT PERSUASIVE)

CONSEQUENCES OF NOT ACTING (OPTIONAL BUT PERSUASIVE)

RECOMMENDATIONS OR SOLUTIONS (REQUIRED, BUT YOU CAN PLACE IT ELSEWHERE IF DESIRED)

CONCLUSION (REQUIRED)

REFERNECES (APA format) or WORKS CITED (MLA format)

Enter sources used for this proposal alphabetically and single spaced with a double space between entries.

APA format for scholarly journal article.

Jones, J. (Year). Accounting Ethics in the 21st Century. Journal of Accounting, Volume(Issue), Pages.

MLA format for scholarly journal article.

Jones, John. “Accounting Ethics in the 21st Century.” Journal of Accounting, Volume, Issue, Year, pages. (use a hanging indent for lines that come after the first line of the entry).