Dairy processor financial model, built free.
A three-statement Excel model for a dairy processor, built from your own figures and checked to balance.
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Collects milk from farmers (as a company or a co-operative) and makes cheese, butter, powders, fresh milk, yoghurt and infant nutrition, selling branded products at home and ingredients to world markets, with the farmgate milk price set against what product returns can afford.
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 dairy processor.
- 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)Processed product sales · All plantsProcessed product salesProduct 1 salesProduct 2 salesProduct 3 sales
- What drives its costs3 formulasAdvertising and promotion (A&P) · All product rangesAdvertising and promotionNet salesA&P (% of net sales)Farm and forest raw material purchases · All plantsFarm and forest raw material purchasesRaw material intakefrom raw material intake and processing yieldsAverage purchase price per unitDirect labour · All plantsDirect labourFixed labourVariable labour (production × cost per unit)
- 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
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
- Exchange rate (US dollar)Exchange rate by financial year
- 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.
- Seasonal and maturing stockInventory daysFood and beverage stock built up seasonally or held to mature — cheese, wine vintages, spirits in cask, sugar and frozen meat — and the cash it ties up.
- Key-metric summaryLast-twelve-month and run-rate metrics
- Covenant tests and headroomLVR, gearing and ICR for property
- 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
- Advertising and promotion (A&P)A&P % of net sales
- 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.
- Farm and forest raw material purchasesIntake × price per unitThe cost of livestock, milk, cane, grain, cotton or logs bought from farmers, growers and forest owners under the sector's pricing system.
- 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.
- 01milk intake
- 02farmgate milk price per kg MS
- 03product mix
- 04consumer share of revenue
- 05EBITDA per litre
- 06inventory at balance date
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