Chicken meat producer financial model, built free.
A three-statement Excel model for an integrated chicken-meat producer, built from your own figures and checked to balance.
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Runs breeder farms, hatcheries, feed mills and processing plants and places chicks with contract growers paid per bird or kilogram, selling fresh and further-processed chicken to supermarkets and QSR chains under contracts that pass feed-cost changes through with a lag.
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 chicken meat producer.
- How it earns revenue2 formulasProcessed product sales · All plantsProcessed product salesProduct 1 salesProduct 2 salesProduct 3 salesBy-product and co-product credits · All plantsBy-product salesRaw material intakefrom raw material intake and processing yieldsBy-product value per unit
- What drives its costs3 formulasHusbandry and feed costs · All herdsFeed and yardage costsFeed costsYardage costsDirect labour · All plantsDirect labourFixed labourVariable labour (production × cost per unit)Maintenance · All plantsMaintenance costFixed maintenanceVariable maintenance (production × cost per unit)
- What it invests in3 formulasLivestock at fair value · All herdsLivestock at fair value less costs to sellHead at period end (cows and heifers)from herd numbers and turnoffFair value per head less costs to sellLivestock at fair value · All herdsLivestock fair-value movement (net of animals sold and bought)Livestock at fair value less costs to sellLivestock at fair value at period startPlant capex and depreciation · All plantsPlant capital expenditureSustaining capexGrowth capex
- 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
29 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
- Dividends and distributionsPayout of net profit
- 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
- Discount rate (WACC)CAPM at target gearing
- Distribution and logisticsLogistics % of sales
- Herd numbers and turnoffDairy herdHead of livestock (or fish) through the year — births, deaths, purchases, sales and moves between classes.
- Husbandry and feed costsCost of gain (feed conversion)Costs of running the herd — feed, animal health, breeding, shearing, freight, selling costs and agistment.
- Livestock at fair valueHead by class × market value per headValue of livestock (or fish biomass) on hand at fair value less costs to sell, and the fair-value movement taken to profit (AASB 141), net of the value of animals sold so sales are not counted twice.
- Raw material intake and processing yieldsCapacity × utilisation × conversion yieldFarm or forest raw material received by a processing plant — head of livestock, litres of milk, tonnes of cane, grain or seed cotton, cubic metres of logs — and the products it yields.
- Processed product salesOutput × price by productSales of meat, dairy products, sugar, flour, malt, oils, lint, sawn timber, pulp and paper from a processing plant.
- By-product and co-product creditsBy-product value per unit processedRevenue from by-products of food processing — hides, tallow, meals and offal, whey, bran, pomace.
- Capacity and productionNameplate capacity × utilisation
- 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.
- 01birds processed
- 02kg sold
- 03feed cost per kg
- 04feed conversion ratio
- 05price per kg
- 06EBITDA per kg
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