This document discusses different types of business plans including methods, budgets, and programs. It provides details about each plan: Methods are prescribed processes for performing tasks considering an organization's objectives. Budgets quantify expected results like sales over a period of time. Programs outline objectives, policies, procedures, resources, and budgets for implementing actions. The document also compares methods and procedures, noting that procedures lay out all activity sequences while methods standardize single task completion. Methods are more flexible than procedures which are more rigid.