or working for yourself. Since youre not writing a standard resume, dates of employment are optional. You may be able to create this list by cutting and pasting old resumes, or you might just start from scratch. If you have access to a word processor, itll save you a lot of time. Also, its okay to include personal information about your hobbies and family status in this resume. Your financial backers want to know you as a person.     Under each organization, list the business areas you worked in-for instance, sales, management, delivery, credit and so on. Now, set out the specific things you accomplished for that organization while carrying out your responsibilities. This information will become the raw material from which you choose the accomplishments most likely to support your proposal.     Remember, this isnt the place to be humble. Getting a new business off the ground is no project for the meek. Maybe you reduced costs for your employer by redesigning a delivery route. Perhaps you designed a better canoe or came up with a new marketing strategy that increased sales of tortilla chips. Maybe you figured out how to improve the efficiency of a computer system or revised a recipe to make brownies taste better.     Once youve completed your first list of accomplishments, write a statement that shows how your specific accomplishments relate to your ability to run your business. Include experiences and achievements that support your case and exclude those that are too general or off the point. Emphasize your knowledge of how your potential business works and your knowledge of and respect for financial realities.     Now that you understand the process and the objective, write a first draft of your business accomplishment resume. You may have to rewrite it several times to get the right perspective. Depending on your experience, your resume probably should be between one and three pages long. Ask someone to read your drafts to make sure youre convincing the reader that youre the right person for the job. You neednt prove you can walk on water, but you should show a good understanding of business realities.     Example 1: Heres an example of an inadequate statement for a credit managers job. This description doesnt give a potential investor any information about the credit managers ability to run a business:     Credit Manager, XYZ Company:Supervised two clerks and the accounts receivable and billing sections.     Example 2: Here is a much better version that details the credit managers positive accomplishments for the company. It shows that the credit manager understands and can improve critical business factors:     Credit Manager, XYZ Company:Managed a credit department of 10 people, consisting of an accounts receivable section, a billing section and a delinquent accounts section. Reorganized both our collection department and our credit granting process to accomplish the following:     1.Collected $200,000 in delinquent accounts that had previously been consigned to the "unlikely to ever collect" category. This was a result of my decision to keep in closer contact with customers.     2.Reduced accounts receivable from an average of 90 days to an average of 38 days, considerably below the industry norm, again primarily by getting to know our customers better.     3.Reduced bad debt losses from 4% of sales to 0.5% of sales in two years by streamlining the credit application process and credit checking procedures as well as requiring our sales reps to