Commercial printer financial model, built free.
A three-statement Excel model for a commercial printer and document services, built from your own figures and checked to balance.
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Prints marketing, packaging, labels, books and large-format work on offset and digital presses and runs managed print, mailing and document-management services, with paper and ink largely passed through.
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 commercial printer.
- How it earns revenue3 formulasContract revenue · All service contractsContract revenueFTEs billedAnnual rate per FTE at the start dateRate indexPrice factor (1 = contract price)from contract life cycleshare of the yearPricing and pass-through · All product linesProduct sales revenueUnits soldfrom sales volumes by productAverage selling pricePricing and pass-through · All product linesAverage selling priceAverage selling price at the start datePrice index
- What drives its costs3 formulasService delivery cost · All service contractsService delivery costDelivery labourSupervisionConsumables and equipmentDirect 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
26 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
- Corporate fixed assetsStraight-line over remaining life
- DebtAmortising term loan
- Dividends and distributionsPayout of net profit
- Discounted cash flow valuationDCF on free cash flow to the firm
- Multiples valuationEV / EBITDA multiple
- LeasesLease register
- InventoryWeighted average cost
- Key-metric summaryLast-twelve-month and run-rate metrics
- Discount rate (WACC)CAPM at target gearing
- Terminal valuePerpetuity growth on normalised cash flow
- Contract life cycleProbability-weighted renewalWhether and how much of a contract is active in each period — term, renewal, option years, rebid or award probability.
- Contract revenueFTE or hourly rate pricingRevenue from an outsourced service contract under its pricing mechanism, scaled by how much of the contract is active.
- Service delivery costLabour build (FTE × wage × on-costs)Direct cost of delivering a contract — labour, subcontractors, materials and consumables.
- Capacity and productionOperating days × daily rate
- Direct labourFixed plus variable labour
- MaintenanceFixed plus cost per unit
- Plant fixed overheadsStep-fixed with shifts and lines
- Plant capex and depreciationSustaining capex plus growth projects
- Sales volumes by productEnd-market production × content per unit
- Pricing and pass-throughPrice with annual increases
- Bill of materials and input costsStandard cost per unit
The numbers it tracks.
- 01volumes by line
- 02press utilisation
- 03materials ratio
- 04managed print pages
- 05EBITDA margin
What it is used for.
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See a finished model, sheet by sheetThe sample is built on illustrative figures and describes no real business. Models are calculations prepared from the information you provide. They are not financial advice and must be independently verified. See our terms.