Tobacco company financial model, built free.
A three-statement Excel model for a tobacco and nicotine company, built from your own figures and checked to balance.
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Makes and sells cigarettes, roll-your-own tobacco, cigars and reduced-risk nicotine products (heated tobacco, vapes, pouches) through licensed wholesalers and retailers, where excise is most of the retail price, legal volumes decline each year and price increases carry profit growth.
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: its structure and its inputs, ready for your own figures.
The sample describes no real business. Yours is calibrated to your own figures, so its results are your business’s.
How the model works for a tobacco company.
- How it earns revenue2 formulasProduct-range sales · All product rangesGross salesVolume soldPrice to retailer per unitTrade spend (gross to net) · All product rangesTrade spendGross salesfrom product-range salesTrade spend (% of gross sales)
- What drives its costs3 formulasProduct cost of goods and gross profit · All product rangesStandard cost per unitMaterials and ingredientsPackagingConversion labourPlant overheadInbound freightProduct cost of goods and gross profit · All product rangesCost of goods soldVolume soldfrom product-range salesStandard cost per unitProduct cost of goods and gross profit · All product rangesNet salesGross sales (product-range sales)from product-range salesTrade spend (trade spend (gross to net))from gross to net
- 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)Project 2 depreciation (from commissioning)Project 3 depreciation (from commissioning)Plant 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
22 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
- Interest-rate hedgingHedged share at a fixed rate
- Key-metric summaryLast-twelve-month and run-rate metrics
- Covenant tests and headroomLVR, gearing and ICR for property
- Case selectionStackable stress toggles
- Discount rate (WACC)CAPM at target gearing
- Distribution and logisticsLogistics % of salesDistribution-centre, warehousing and outbound freight costs of moving goods to stores, customers or retail accounts.
- Product-range salesDistribution × rate of saleGross sales of a brand, category or SKU family to retailers, wholesale accounts and export markets.
- Trade spend (gross to net)Trade spend % of gross salesPayments and discounts to retail customers — promotional allowances, rebates, listing fees and co-operative marketing — deducted from gross sales to reach net revenue.
- Product cost of goods and gross profitUnit cost buildCost of making or buying each product range — materials, packaging, conversion and inbound freight.
- Advertising and promotion (A&P)A&P % of net salesBrand investment in media, sponsorship and consumer promotion (separate from trade spend paid to retailers).
- Capacity and productionOperating days × daily rate
- Plant capex and depreciationSustaining capex plus growth projects
The numbers it tracks.
- 01stick volume
- 02price/mix
- 03excise per stick
- 04reduced-risk product share
- 05operating margin
- 06free cash flow
What it is used for.
- Operating forecastGuide · Financial projections
- ValuationGuide · DCF valuation model
- Lending and credit analysisGuide · Three-statement model
- Scenarios and sensitivities
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