Bakery manufacturer financial model, built free.
A three-statement Excel model for a bakery manufacturer, built from your own figures and checked to balance.
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Bakes bread, buns, wraps and cakes in plants running around the clock and delivers them daily to supermarkets, convenience stores and foodservice on its own routes, with flour and energy costs, route delivery and unsold returns shaping margins.
In short
- 01
Three linked statements
Income statement, balance sheet and cash flow, linked in every period.
- 02
Valued two ways
Discounted cash flow and trading multiples, side by side.
- 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 a bakery manufacturer.
- How it earns revenue3 formulasProduct-range sales · All product rangesGross salesVolume soldPrice to retailer per unitTrade spend (gross to net) · All product rangesTrade spendGross salesfrom product-range salesTrade spend (% of gross sales)Synergies · Valuation and analysisCost synergiesRun-rate cost synergiesCost synergies achieved (share of run-rate)CPI index (1.00 in the first year)share of the year
- What drives its costs3 formulasProduct cost of goods and gross profit · All product rangesStandard cost per unitMaterials and ingredientsPackagingConversion labourPlant overheadInbound freightProduct cost of goods and gross profit · All product rangesCost of goods soldVolume soldfrom product-range salesStandard cost per unitProduct cost of goods and gross profit · All product rangesNet salesGross sales (product-range sales)from product-range salesTrade spend (trade spend (gross to net))from gross to net
- What it invests in3 formulasPlant capex and depreciation · All plantsPlant capital expenditureSustaining capexGrowth capexPlant capex and depreciation · All plantsPlant depreciationDepreciation of existing assetsDepreciation of sustaining additionsProject 1 depreciation (from commissioning)from from commissioningProject 2 depreciation (from commissioning)from from commissioningProject 3 depreciation (from commissioning)from from commissioningPlant capex and depreciation · All plantsClosing net book valueOpening net book valuePlant capital expenditurePlant depreciation
- 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
27 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
- 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
- Multiples valuationEV / EBITDA multiple
- Commodity price deckFlat real pricesPrice paths for the farm, fish and forest commodities in the model — grain, oilseeds, cotton, sugar, beef, lamb, pork, wool, milk, fish, logs, fertiliser and feed — that sales and cost methods read as indices.
- Key-metric summaryLast-twelve-month and run-rate metrics
- Covenant tests and headroomLVR, gearing and ICR for property
- Sources and uses at completionEntry multiple with debt sized in turns of EBITDA
- Management equity and ratchetsFixed management share or option pool
- Exit valuation and timingExit multiple of LTM EBITDA
- Sponsor returns and value creationValue creation bridge
- SynergiesRun-rate synergies with phasing
- Discount rate (WACC)CAPM at target gearing
- Distribution and logisticsLogistics % of sales
- Product-range salesDistribution × rate of sale
- Trade spend (gross to net)Trade spend % of gross sales
- Product cost of goods and gross profitUnit cost build
- Advertising and promotion (A&P)A&P % of net sales
- Capacity and productionOperating days × daily rate
- Direct labourFixed plus variable labour
- MaintenanceFixed plus cost per unit
- Plant capex and depreciationSustaining capex plus growth projects
- Energy and carbonEnergy intensity × price
The numbers it tracks.
- 01units baked
- 02returns rate
- 03net price per unit
- 04flour cost per unit
- 05cost per delivery drop
- 06EBITDA margin
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