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The financial model presents the business case of an eCommerce Website. An eCommerce website is an online destination where buyers shop for goods and sellers offer products and services. It's the hub of information about a company and what they sell. On an eCommerce website, you'll find product listings, eCommerce blog content, company history, and contact information.
This financial model template will enable you to:
– Plan the sources of monetization from organic and paid traffic, their conversion rates, as well as their churn rates
– Forecast the revenues (from organic, paid traffic, and active users)
– Analyze the direct costs for running the website such as an average cost margin per order, credit card costs, shipping costs, servers, and customer service costs as well as marketing costs.
– Setting up payroll costs, and operating expenses.
– Set the initial investment amount and the equipment / servers needed
– Set the relevant currency and timing
– Create the three financial statements (Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow) monthly for 60 months.
– Financial Ratios to check the viability of your business
– Printable model as PDF for your investors
So, a quick overview of the model, in the contents tab you can see the structure of the model and by clicking on any of the headlines to be redirected to the relevant worksheet.
On the timing tab, you can feed the general information for the model such as: model name, responsible, timeline of the model, and the date and currency conventions.
Additionally, there is a description of the color-coding of the model in the same tab. Inputs are always depicted with a yellow fill and blue letters, call ups (that is direct links from other cells) are filled in light blue with blue letters while calculations are depicted with white fill and black characters.
There is also color coding for the various tabs of the model. Yellow tabs are mostly assumptions tabs, grey tabs are calculations tabs, blue tabs are outputs tabs (that is effectively results or graphs) and finally, light blue tabs are admin tabs (for example: the cover page, contents, and checks).
Moving on to the inputs tab, you can adjust the various assumptions of the model based on the specifications and requirements of your business. So effectively you can adjust the detailed revenue assumptions and the user can amend the most important drivers such as: organic traffic, paid marketing budget, conversion rates, average orders, and average order amount. Moving on, the cost is comprised of three main categories: direct costs (cost margin per order, shipping costs, payment processing, servers, customer support, marketing ), labor cost (headcount, salaries, employment costs, and other benefits), and operating costs (rent, utilities, insurance, advertising, other supporting tools, etc.). Going forward you can adjust noncurrent assets, CAPEX, as well as their depreciation schedule, the working capital assumptions (inventory, receivables, and payables), can also be adjusted accordingly, and finally, the financing assumptions of the business whether these are debt or equity-financed can also be amended.
On the calculation tab, all calculations are performed instantly without the need for an excel macro. The calculations follow the same logical flow as in the inputs tab. As already mentioned, no inputs from the use are needed here, as all the inputs are fed in the yellow cells on the inputs tab only.
On the Financial Statements tabs, you can see the resulting income statement, balance sheet as well as the cash flow of the company and or project. These financial statements are generated on a monthly as well as on a yearly basis.
In the Valuation tab, the valuation of the company is performed based on the free cash flows to the firm. In the same tab, you can also find some feasibility metrics such as Return on Equity, Return on Assets, Net Present Value, Internal Rate of Return, and Cash on Cash Multiple.
The most important business and financial KPIs are presented in the KPIs tab along with various valuation metrics. These KPIs are also presented by using some graphical representations in the Graphs tab. For example: Revenues & Operating Profit, Cost of Goods Sold, Cash Flows as well as several other financial metrics from valuation to profitability, working capital and debt.
Finally, the checks tab where the most critical checks are aggregated on this page. Whenever you see an error message on any page, you should consult this page to see where the error is coming from.
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Source: Best Practices in Integrated Financial Model, E-commerce Excel: eCommerce Website Financial Model Excel (XLSX) Spreadsheet, Big4WallStreet
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