Fashion Designer (Independent) – 5 Year Financial Model (Excel XLSX)

BENEFITS OF DOCUMENT

1. Presents a 5-year financial plan for a startup Independent Fashion Designer Business, offering Ready-to-Wear Clothes Collections, Bespoke Tailoring Services and Jewelry designs.
2. Suitable for a small fashion design business, but can be customized to support a larger Fashion Design Company

DESCRIPTION

This product (Fashion Designer [Independent] – 5 Year Financial Model) is an Excel template (XLSX), which you can download immediately upon purchase.

Today, it is clear that living from your passion is not as simple as one might imagine. Especially if you are a fashion designer. Creating your brand is extremely complicated and the difficulties in perspective hamper your motivation. Unfortunately, the design of new collections and their manufacture require a lot of time. Once finished, you then have to sell the creations, take care of the logistics (storage, packaging, shipping and after-sales service) and follow up with your financials. Although we cannot assit you with the design and manufacturing process, we can definetely help you with your financial management process!

This highly sophisticated Financial Model presents a 5-year financial plan for a startup Independent Fashion Designer Business, creating Ready-to-Wear Collections, Bespoke Tailoring Services and Jewelry designs. Although the setup of the model is made for a small startup fashion design business, it can support even a larger fashion design company with some further customization. Please contact us if you want to use the model for a larger company and you need adjustments or you need to add more products/collections.

The model is a flexible tool for business owners to forecast their financial and operational activities. It includes assumptions and calculations of startup Expenses, Products Collection Data (launching dates, manufacturing cost, retail prices, production volumes, sales assumptions), Payroll, Cost of Services (photoshootings, events, packaging, etc.), Operating Expenses, Fixed Assets & Depreciation, Financing through Debt & Equity and Exit Valuation assumptions in case of a potential sale of the business.

The structure of the template follows Financial Modeling Best Practices principles and is fully customizable.

Detailed instructions for the functionality of the model are included in the Excel file.

Model Inputs and Setup Reports:
•  General Setup Assumptions, incl. Starting Expenses (in case the business is a startup), Payroll, Operating Expenses, Financing and Business Valuation
•  Pricing (Manufacturing Costs and Retail Prices per Collection/Product)
•  Revenue and Production Volume Assumptions
•  Annual Calculations and Monthly Budget Allocation

Starting Year Output Reports:
•  Yr1 Budget and Actual Reports
•  Yr1 Profit & Loss Statement Summary
•  Yr1 Budget vs. Actual Variance Analysis at a YTD and Monthly level

5-Year Forecast Output Reports:
•  Annual Financial Statements (3 Statement model) and Annual Direct Cash Flow
•  Inventory Control, Profitability & Break-Even Analysis
•  KPIs, Financial Ratios & Dupont Analysis
•  Performance Dashboard
•  Business Valuation, including DCF Model, Return Metrics (NPV, EV, IRR, MOIC, ROI, etc.), and Sensitivity Analysis
•  Investors Returns Waterfall Model
•  Professional Executive Summary

Help & Support

Committed to high quality and customer satisfaction, all our templates follow best-practice financial modeling principles and are thoughtfully and carefully designed, keeping the user's needs and comfort in mind.
Whether you have no experience or are well-versed in finance, accounting, and the use of Microsoft Excel, our professional financial models are the right tools to boost your business operations!
If you experience any difficulty while using this template and cannot find the appropriate guidance in the provided instructions, please feel free to contact us for assistance.
If you need a template customized for your business requirements, please e-mail us and provide a brief explanation of your specific needs.

Source: Best Practices in Integrated Financial Model Excel: Fashion Designer (Independent) – 5 Year Financial Model Excel (XLSX) Spreadsheet, Profit Vision