Riad business plan: prepare traceable assumptions

Describe the project before the spreadsheet

To prepare a riad business plan, start with a dated project description: intended use, spaces involved, proposed organisation and period covered. Mark what is confirmed and what remains an intention. SBA business-plan guidance separates business description, organisation and projections; this reference is used here only to organise the documents, without applying U.S. funding criteria.

• Project sheet: version, person supplying the information and decisions still open.
• Separate an existing operation from the operation you propose.

Create a source register

Give every input a row showing its definition, unit, period, origin and date. An amount taken from an advertisement, a quotation or an operating statement answers different questions. Keep the associated record. If information is unavailable, identify the missing input rather than replacing it with a plausible figure that later readers might mistake for evidence.

• Source sheet: observed data, received quotation or assumption awaiting confirmation.
• Record what each source includes and excludes.

Prepare the cost questions

Create headings to complete for proposed works, equipment, services, maintenance and operations. Record who should supply the supporting document and whether the item is one-off or recurring in your project. Leave a separate heading for tax and regulatory questions to examine with competent advisers, without inserting unverified rates or assuming that a quotation covers every item.

• Cost sheet: item, record expected, period and person responsible for replying.
• Keep a received quotation separate from an expense actually incurred.

Write scenario questions without inventing outcomes

List what you want tested: a later opening, reduced availability, an additional cost or an unconfirmed commercial assumption. Ask the professional preparing the forecast how each change will be represented. The final sheet gathers missing inputs and decisions dependent on the calculation. This guide supplies no numerical model, expected yield or Marrakech market forecast; it prepares a better brief for the person doing that work.