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Electronic components manufacturer financial model, built free.

A three-statement Excel model for an electronic components and instruments maker, built from your own figures and checked to balance.

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The business

Makes passive components, connectors, sensors, displays and printed circuit boards, or electronic instruments (test and measurement, scanners, meters), selling to many end markets with book-to-bill driven cycles.

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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
Electronic components manufacturer sample model.xlsx
The Summary sheet of the sample electronic components manufacturer 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 an electronic components manufacturer.

  1. How it earns revenue3 formulas
    Pricing and pass-through · All product lines
    Product sales revenueUnits soldfrom sales volumes by productAverage selling price
    Pricing and pass-through · All product lines
    Average selling priceAverage selling price at the start datePrice index
    Hardware service and support contracts · Across the business
    Service contracts billedService contracts soldContract price per unit (whole term)Contract price index
  2. What drives its costs3 formulas
    Direct labour · All plants
    Direct labourFixed labourVariable labour (production × cost per unit)
    Maintenance · All plants
    Maintenance costFixed maintenanceVariable maintenance (production × cost per unit)
    Operating expenses · Across the business
    Total FTEsOperations and deliverySales and marketingTechnologyFinance, HR and administration
  3. What it invests in3 formulas
    Plant capex and depreciation · All plants
    Plant capital expenditureSustaining capexGrowth capex
    Plant capex and depreciation · All plants
    Plant 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 plants
    Closing net book valueOpening net book valuePlant capital expenditurePlant depreciation
  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

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
  • Hardware service and support contractsAttach rate with ratable recognitionExtended warranty, support and maintenance contracts on the installed base of devices, systems or tools, billed in advance and recognised over their term.
  • LeasesLease register
  • InventoryWeighted average cost
  • Key-metric summaryLast-twelve-month and run-rate metrics
  • Case selectionStackable stress toggles
  • Capacity and productionOperating days × daily rate
  • Direct labourFixed plus variable labour
  • MaintenanceFixed plus cost per unit
  • 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
Key numbers

The numbers it tracks.

  1. 01revenue by end market
  2. 02book-to-bill
  3. 03gross margin
  4. 04utilisation
  5. 05distributor inventory weeks
  6. 06EBITDA margin
Used for

What it is used for.

Also used for
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