Agricultural contractor financial model, built free.
A three-statement Excel model for an agricultural contractor, built from your own figures and checked to balance.
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Owns headers, sprayers, seeders, balers and trucks and works on other farmers' crops — sowing, spraying, harvesting, hay and cartage — charging per hectare, tonne or hour, often following the harvest from north to south.
In short
- 01
Three linked statements
Income statement, balance sheet and cash flow, linked in every period.
- 02
Valued and tested
Discounted cash flow, with scenarios on the key drivers.
- 03
Monthly to annual
Monthly, quarterly, half-yearly or annual periods, for up to 30 years.
- 04
Checked every period
A Checks sheet shows the balance sheet balances and the cash reconciles.
The sample, as Excel draws it.
Built by the same system and checks as yours: its structure and its inputs, ready for your own figures.
The sample describes no real business. Yours is calibrated to your own figures, so its results are your business’s.
How the model works for an agricultural contractor.
- How it earns revenue3 formulasRental fleet: cost, capex and disposals · All rental fleet classesProceeds from used equipment salesUnits sold at original costSale price of used equipment (% of original cost)Rental fleet: cost, capex and disposals · All rental fleet classesClosing fleet unitsOpening fleet unitsUnits soldUnits boughtRental fleet: cost, capex and disposals · All rental fleet classesFleet unit-years (average fleet units × years)Opening fleet unitsClosing fleet unitsshare of the year
- What drives its costs3 formulasDirect costs (top-down) · Across the businessCost of salesRevenuefrom statementsGross marginOperating expenses · Across the businessTotal FTEsOperations and deliverySales and marketingTechnologyFinance, HR and administrationOperating expenses · Across the businessTotal average FTEsOperations and deliverySales and marketingTechnologyFinance, HR and administration
- How it is funded3 formulasDebtRepaymentsScheduled repaymentsPrepayments from an equity raise and the cash sweepDebtClosing balanceOpening balanceDrawdownsRepaymentsDebtInterest expenseOpening balanceAll-in interest rateshare of the year
- How profit becomes cash3 formulasWorking capitalTrade receivablesRevenuefrom statementsDebtor daysDays in periodWorking capitalInventoryDirect costs (positive)from statementsInventory daysDays in periodWorking capitalTrade payablesCash operating costs (positive)from statementsCreditor daysDays in period
13 parts, each one tested.
Every part is a tested building block with its own checks: yours is put together from the ones your business needs.
- CPI forecastConsensus curve with long-run anchor
- Revenue (top-down)Price × volume
- Direct costs (top-down)Gross margin %
- Operating expensesHeadcount build by function
- Corporate costsFixed cost base indexed to CPI
- Working capitalFull working capital
- Income taxCorporate rate with tax losses
- DebtAmortising term loan
- Discounted cash flow valuationDCF on free cash flow to the firm
- Seasonal conditions and climate riskSeason type by yearA season factor that scales yields, carrying capacity, receivals, input demand (or, for ski resorts, snow and skier visits) for drought, average and good years.
- Key-metric summaryLast-twelve-month and run-rate metrics
- Covenant tests and headroomLVR, gearing and ICR for property
- Rental fleet: cost, capex and disposalsFleet cost (OEC) roll-forward
The numbers it tracks.
- 01hectares worked
- 02revenue per machine
- 03machine utilisation
- 04fuel and labour per hectare
- 05machinery debt
What it is used for.
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