Financial Advisor / Planner Financial Projection Model (Excel XLSX)

A Financial Advisor/Financial Planner Financial Projection Model is critical for advisory businesses. It forecasts income, expenses, and cash flows, aiding strategic planning, fee structure decisions, and resource allocation. It supports decision-making related to client acquisition costs, marketing strategies, and investment approaches. Accurate projections empower financial advisors to adapt to market dynamics, secure funding, and ensure sustained profitability. It enhances financial stability, attracts clients, and supports long-term growth by aligning financial strategies with the dynamic financial advisory landscape. This model is indispensable for both established advisory firms and startups, ensuring their financial viability, competitiveness, and effective financial planning services.

PURPOSE OF MODEL
Highly versatile and user-friendly Excel model for the preparation a of 5-year rolling 3 statement (Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash flow Statement) financial projection with a monthly timeline for a startup or existing Financial Advisor / Financial Planner business managing customer investments and generating fees based on Assets Under Management (AUM) and other commission and consulting revenues.

The model allows the user to model up to 10 customer group each with their own investment balances, portfolio compositions, and addition/redemption rates. The model also allows the user to model 10 different asset classes each with their own return and fee assumptions.

The model follows good practice financial modelling principles and includes instructions, line-item explanations, checks and input validations.

KEY OUTPUTS
The key outputs include:
•  Projected full financial statements (Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash flow Statement) presented on a monthly basis across 5 years and summarised on an annual basis.
•  Dashboard with:
Summarised projected Income Statement and Balance Sheet;
Compounded Annual Growth rate (CAGR) for each summarised income statement and Balance Sheet line item;
List of key ratios including average margins, return on assets and equity and average debt to equity ratio
Bar charts summarising income statement and Balance Sheet projections;
Chart/tables presenting customer volumes, revenue breakdowns and portfolio compositions
Charts and graphs showing: cash balance by month, free cash flow generation, cash flow statement breakdown, profit margins, income statement breakdown, net cash vs net income, working capital, valuation and capital structure.
•  Discounted cash flow valuation using the projected cash flow output.
•  Breakeven analysis

KEY INPUTS
Inputs are split into Income Statement and Balance Sheet Inputs. Most inputs include user-friendly line item explanations and input validations to help users understand what the input is for and populate correctly.

Setup Inputs:
•  Name of business;
•  Currency;
•  First projection year and month;
•  Naming for customer categories, asset classes, commission revenue categories, other revenue categories, direct cost categories, staff cost categories, marketing cost categories, admin expense categories, fixed asset categories and borrowings;

Actuals Inputs:
•  Opening balance sheet (for existing businesses);
•  Income Statement actuals (for trend analysis);
•  Opening customer numbers and financial asset balances (for existing businesses)

Projection Inputs:
•  AUM Fee inputs including:
Customer additions/reductions
Average investment additions/redemptions per customer per month
Average investment allocations per customer group
Average return by asset class
Annual management fee percentages
•  Commission and other revenue inputs including:
Total volume and commission percentages or revenue per unit.
•  Direct cost inputs including:
Direct costs per trade
Direct costs per active customer
Direct costs per financial asset balances
•  Staff Costs including:
Staff numbers;
Average Annual cost per staff member;
Average employer's payroll taxes as % of salary;
Average annual bonus;
Average healthcare benefits per staff member;
•  Other cost inputs including
Marketing costs;
Staff costs;
Admin expenses.
•  Sales tax and corporate tax inputs including rate and payment periods;
•  Dividend inputs including amount or percentage of retained earnings and frequency;
•  Fixed Assets including addition amounts and useful life;
•  Borrowings including addition/redemption amounts, maturity date and interest rate;
•  Share Capital additions.

MODEL STRUCTURE
The model comprises of 9 tabs split into input ('i_'), calculation ('c_'), output ('o_') and system tabs. The tabs to be populated by the user are the input tabs ('i_Setup', ‘i_Actuals' and 'i_Assumptions'). The calculation tab uses the user-defined inputs to calculate and produce the projection outputs which are presented in 'o_Fin Stats', ‘o_Dashboard' and ‘o_DCF'.

System tabs include:
•  A 'Front Sheet' containing a disclaimer, instructions and contents;
•  A Checks dashboard containing a summary of checks by tab.

KEY FEATURES
Other key features of this model include the following:
•  The model follows best practice financial modelling guidelines and includes instructions, line-item explanations, checks and input validations;
•  The model is not password protected and can be modified as required following download;
•  The model contains a dynamic timeline that allows for a mix of actual and forecast period across a 5-year period allowing projections to be rolled forward from month to month;
•  Timeline is split on a monthly basis and summarised on an annual basis;
•  Costs are split into: direct and non-direct for better driver-based forecasting;
•  The model allows for the following number of underlying categories for each line item (these can be easily expanded if required):
Customer categories – 10 categories;
Asset Classes – 10 categories;
Commission Revenue – 5 categories;
Other revenue streams – 10 categories;
Direct Costs – 8 categories;
Staff costs – 8 categories;
Marketing costs – 5 categories;
Admin expenses – 15 categories;
Fixed Assets – 5 categories;
Borrowings – 3 facilities;
•  Apart from projecting revenue and costs the model includes the possibility model fixed assets, borrowings, dividends, corporate tax and sales tax;
•  Borrowings include calculations for amortisation of loan principal over loan period.
•  The model included an integrated discounted cash flow valuation using the projected cash flow outputs;
•  Business name, currency, starting projection period are fully customisable;
•  Revenue, cost, fixed asset and borrowing category descriptions are fully customisable;
•  The model includes instructions, checks and input validations to help ensure input fields are populated accurately;
•  The model includes a checks dashboard which summarises all the checks included in the various tabs making it easier to identify any errors.