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Pet grooming and boarding financial model, built free.

A three-statement Excel model for a pet services (grooming, boarding and daycare), built from your own figures and checked to balance.

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The business

Operates pet resorts and salons offering boarding, doggy daycare, grooming and training, with prepaid daycare packages and seasonal boarding peaks.

See the sampleHow the model works

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
Pet grooming and boarding sample model.xlsx
The Summary sheet of the sample pet grooming and boarding 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 pet grooming and boarding.

  1. How it earns revenue3 formulas
    Appointment services and retail attach · All venues
    Service revenueAppointments deliveredAverage ticket per visit
    Appointment services and retail attach · All venues
    Active clients at period endActive clients at start of periodNew clients wonClients lapsed
    Appointment services and retail attach · All venues
    Appointments deliveredAverage active clientsVisits per active client per yearshare of the yearShare of the period the venue tradesfrom venue register
  2. What drives its costs3 formulas
    Practitioner and instructor pay · All venues
    Practitioner payBase wagesProductivity bonusOn-costs
    Cost of goods sold and content costs · All venues
    Cost of goods sold and content costsBeverage cost of salesFood cost of salesMerchandise cost of salesContent costs on admissions
    Venue labour costs · All venues
    Venue labour costsVenue revenue (venue revenue and site ebitda)from venue revenue and site ebitdaVenue labour (% of venue revenue)from % of venue revenue
  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
    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
  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
  • LeasesLease register
  • New venues, acquisitions and refurbishments (top-down)Openings schedule with ramp to maturity
  • Customer deposits, deferred revenue and loyaltyDeferred revenue as days of revenue
  • Appointment services and retail attachActive clients × visit frequency × ticketRevenue from booked services delivered by practitioners — hair, beauty, massage, grooming or personal training — plus retail products sold alongside.
  • Practitioner and instructor payWage plus productivity bonusPay of stylists, therapists, groomers and instructors — commission, wages with bonus, contractor splits or per-class fees.
  • Boarding, daycare and training revenueRuns × nights × occupancy × ratePet boarding nights, daycare attendance and training classes at a pet resort or daycare site.
  • Venue registerOpening date, closing date and capacity
  • Cost of goods sold and content costsMargin by revenue stream
  • Venue labour costsWages as % of revenue
  • Venue rent and occupancy costsBase rent plus turnover rent
  • Other venue operating costsCost lines with growth
  • Venue revenue and site EBITDA
  • Memberships and passesJoins, churn and yield
Key numbers

The numbers it tracks.

  1. 01boarding occupancy
  2. 02daycare attendance
  3. 03grooming appointments
  4. 04revenue per site
  5. 05labour to revenue
  6. 06site EBITDA
Used for

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