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Farm machinery dealer financial model, built free.

A three-statement Excel model for a farm machinery dealer, built from your own figures and checked to balance.

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The business

Holds manufacturer franchises to sell new tractors, headers, sprayers and implements, trades and retails used machinery, and runs parts and service workshops, funding stock with manufacturer floorplan whose interest-free periods end if machines do not sell.

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

The sample, as Excel draws it.

Built by the same system and checks as yours, on illustrative figures: every sheet as Excel draws it, or live.

Annual · 10 years · Low detail
Farm machinery dealer sample model.xlsx
The Summary sheet of the sample farm machinery dealer model

Illustrative figures: the sample describes no real business. The live preview shows values; your model’s Excel file has every formula.

How it works

How the model works for a farm machinery dealer.

  1. How it earns revenue3 formulas
    New vehicle sales · All dealerships
    Agency commission revenueFixed commissionVariable commissionPerformance commission
    New vehicle sales · All dealerships
    New vehicle gross profit (commission)Agency commission revenueNew vehicle cost of sales (none under agency)from none under agency
    Used vehicle sales · All dealerships
    Used vehicle revenueUsed vehicles retailedAverage used transaction price
  2. What drives its costs1 formula
    Dealership operating costs · All dealerships
    Dealership gross profitNew vehicle gross profitUsed vehicle gross profitFinance and insurance income (finance and insurance income)from finance and insurance incomeService and parts gross profit
  3. What it invests in3 formulas
    Corporate fixed assets
    Capital expenditureRevenuefrom statementsCapex as % of revenueAdditional planned capex
    Corporate fixed assets
    DepreciationDepreciation of the opening asset baseDepreciation of new capex
    Corporate fixed assets
    Closing net book valueOpening net book valueCapital expenditureDepreciation
  4. How it is funded3 formulas
    Vehicle stock and floorplan finance · All dealerships
    Vehicle stockNew vehicle stockUsed vehicle stock
    Vehicle stock and floorplan finance · All dealerships
    Net drawdowns (repayments)Closing floorplanOpening floorplan
    Vehicle stock and floorplan finance · All dealerships
    Closing floorplanNew vehicle stockFloorplan advance rate on new stockUsed vehicle stockFloorplan advance rate on used stock
  5. How profit becomes cash3 formulas
    Working capital
    Trade receivablesRevenuefrom statementsDebtor daysDays in period
    Working capital
    InventoryDirect costs (positive)from statementsInventory daysDays in period
    Working capital
    Trade payablesCash operating costs (positive)from statementsCreditor daysDays in period
What it covers

21 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
  • Corporate costsFixed cost base indexed to CPI
  • Working capitalFull working capital
  • Income taxCorporate rate with tax losses
  • Corporate fixed assetsStraight-line over remaining life
  • DebtAmortising term loan
  • Discounted cash flow valuationDCF on free cash flow to the firm
  • Multiples valuationEV / EBITDA multiple
  • 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.
  • LeasesLease register
  • Key-metric summaryLast-twelve-month and run-rate metrics
  • Covenant tests and headroomLVR, gearing and ICR for property
  • Borrowing base and security coverReceivables and inventory borrowing base
  • SynergiesRun-rate synergies with phasing
  • Interest-rate forecastMarket forward curve
  • New vehicle salesAgency commission
  • Used vehicle salesUsed-to-new ratio × gross per unit
  • Finance and insurance incomePenetration × amount × commission
  • Service and partsTechnician hours × productivity × labour rate
  • Vehicle stock and floorplan financeDays supply × advance rate
  • Dealership operating costsSG&A as a % of gross profit
Key numbers

The numbers it tracks.

  1. 01new and used machines sold
  2. 02gross profit per unit
  3. 03aged used stock
  4. 04parts and service absorption
  5. 05floorplan interest
  6. 06EBITDA
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