29 types of business

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Professional services

7 types of business

Professional services firm financial modelAudit, tax, advisory and consulting firms (Big Four style and mid-tier networks) that earn fees from fee earners' chargeable hours × charge-out rates × realisation, recurring compliance engagements and fixed-fee projects, usually owned by partners.Sample in Excel · live preview
Law firm financial modelLegal practice earning hourly, fixed and capped fees and (where allowed) conditional or no-win-no-fee fees from partners, lawyers and paralegals, with disbursements recharged, trust money held for clients and profits shared among equity partners.Sample in Excel · live preview
Accounting practice financial modelAccounting, tax, bookkeeping, audit and advisory practice with a base of recurring compliance clients billed annually or monthly, a busy season around tax deadlines, and partners paid from profits; practices trade at a multiple of recurring fees.Sample in Excel · live preview
Consulting firm financial modelStrategy, operations and technology consultancies selling project teams on time-and-materials or fixed-fee engagements (sometimes with success fees), managed through a leveraged pyramid, utilisation and a sales pipeline.Sample in Excel · live preview
Engineering consultancy financial modelDesign, engineering, surveying and environmental consultancies earning project fees (time and materials or fixed price) from a backlog of awarded work, often with subconsultant pass-through.Sample in Excel · live preview
Architecture practice financial modelArchitects, interior designers, landscape architects and town planners paid fees by project stage — often a percentage of construction cost — with work won through competitions, panels and repeat clients.Sample in Excel · live preview
Translation services financial modelTranslates documents, software and media and supplies interpreters, charging per word, page, minute or hour, delivered largely by freelance linguists with machine translation raising productivity.Sample in Excel · live preview

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People and outsourcing

5 types of business

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Facilities and field services

6 types of business

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Education and childcare

5 types of business

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Media, marketing and information

6 types of business

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