Food processor financial model, built free.
A three-statement Excel model for a food and ingredients processor, built from your own figures and checked to balance.
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Buys produce, grain, oilseeds, fruit or other farm output and processes it into ingredients, juices, oils, frozen or canned foods, pet food or other products, earning the spread between product prices and raw-material costs (the general case; meat, dairy, sugar, grain milling, bakery and confectionery have their own types).
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, on illustrative figures: every sheet as Excel draws it, or live.
Illustrative figures: the sample describes no real business. The live preview shows values; your model’s Excel file has every formula.
How the model works for a food processor.
- How it earns revenue3 formulasBy-product and co-product credits · All plantsBy-product salesRaw material intakefrom raw material intake and processing yieldsBy-product value per unitProduct pricing and plant revenue · All plantsImport parity priceLanded price in model currencyImport dutyPort and delivery costsProduct pricing and plant revenue · All plantsPlant sales revenueProductionfrom capacity and productionRealised price per unit
- What drives its costs3 formulasFarm 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)Maintenance · All plantsMaintenance costFixed maintenanceVariable maintenance (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
32 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
- Budget phasingSeasonal profile of twelve monthly weights
- 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
- 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.
- 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 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
- Feedstock and raw materialsConsumption rate × input price
- Product pricing and plant revenueBenchmark or import-parity price
The numbers it tracks.
- 01throughput
- 02capacity utilisation
- 03margin per head or tonne or litre
- 04conversion cost per unit
- 05EBITDA margin
What it is used for.
- Operating forecastGuide · Financial projections
- Budget and rolling forecastGuide · Cash flow forecast
- ValuationGuide · DCF valuation model
- Lending and credit analysisGuide · Three-statement model
- Merger or acquisition (strategic)Guide · Financial modelling services
- Leveraged buyout (private equity)Guide · Financial modelling services
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