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Farmland, agribusiness and rural services

Farm management company financial model, built free.

A three-statement Excel model for a farm management and agricultural fund manager, built from your own figures and checked to balance.

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The business

Manages farms, orchards and water for institutional owners and agricultural funds, earning base fees on assets under management or per hectare, performance fees, and agronomy and advisory fees, often co-investing.

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 management company sample model.xlsx
The Summary sheet of the sample farm management company 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 management company.

  1. How it earns revenue3 formulas
    Base management fees · All managed property funds
    Base management feesFees on commitmentsFees on invested capital
    Transaction, development, property management and licence fees · All managed property funds
    Development management feesDevelopment spendDevelopment management fee (% of cost)
    Performance fees · All managed property funds
    Performance feesProbability-weighted fee for the yearCrystallisation highly probable1 in the last period of each year
  2. What drives its costs3 formulas
    Operating expenses · Across the business
    Total FTEsOperations and deliverySales and marketingTechnologyFinance, HR and administration
    Operating expenses · Across the business
    Total average FTEsOperations and deliverySales and marketingTechnologyFinance, HR and administration
    Operating expenses · Across the business
    Total staff costsSalariesOn-costsOther costs per FTE
  3. How it is funded3 formulas
    Debt
    RepaymentsScheduled repaymentsPrepayments from an equity raise and the cash sweep
    Debt
    Closing balanceOpening balanceDrawdownsRepayments
    Debt
    Interest expenseOpening balanceAll-in interest rateshare of the year
  4. 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

16 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
  • Key-metric summaryLast-twelve-month and run-rate metrics
  • SynergiesRun-rate synergies with phasing
  • Discount rate (WACC)CAPM at target gearing
  • Assets under managementAUM roll-forward by flow type
  • Base management feesFee on commitments then invested capital
  • Transaction, development, property management and licence feesDevelopment management fees
  • Performance feesProbability-weighted crystallisation
  • Co-investment in managed fundsEquity-accounted share of fund earnings
Key numbers

The numbers it tracks.

  1. 01assets under management
  2. 02hectares managed
  3. 03base fee margin
  4. 04performance fees
  5. 05EBITDA
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