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An iGaming business offers online gambling services such as casino games, sports betting, poker, bingo, and lotteries through websites and mobile platforms. These platforms allow users to bet or play for real money, generating revenue through mechanisms like the "house edge" and live dealer games. Key products include virtual sports and esports betting, all while ensuring security, fairness, and regulatory compliance.
Our versatile and user-friendly Excel model provides a comprehensive 5-year rolling financial projection (Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Statement) with a monthly timeline, ideal for both startup and existing iGaming businesses. It allows the modeling of up to 15 subscription products alongside other income streams, direct expenses, staff costs, marketing, operating costs, and taxes. The model adheres to financial best practices, featuring built-in instructions, item explanations, checks, and input validations. It also includes a comprehensive dashboard summarising projections in table and chart format as well as a discounted cash flow (DCF) valuation calculation helping to assess the business's financial plans and potential value.
KEY OUTPUTS
• 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 subscription metrics including Average Revenue Per Customer (ARPU), Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR), Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR), Churn Rate, Customer Lifetime Value (LTV) and Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC);
• Other key ratios including average revenue growth, average profit margins, average return on assets and equity and average debt to equity ratio;
• Tables and Bar charts summarising revenue, direct expenses and user volumes by product;
• 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
Setup Inputs:
• Name of business;
• Currency;
• First projection year and month;
• Naming for subscription products, other income, direct expenses, staff costs, marketing costs, other operating costs, fixed assets and borrowings;
Actuals Inputs:
• Opening balance sheet (for existing businesses);
• Income Statement actuals (for trend analysis);
Projection Inputs:
• Subscription-based product assumptions including new users, churn rates, Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) and free trial to paid user conversion ratio;
• Direct expenses calculated based on number of active users, number of new users or amount per annum basis.
• Staff cost inputs including staff numbers, average salary per full time position, average employer's social security percentage of salary, average annual bonus and bonus payment months.
• Other income and costs inputs including marketing costs and other operating costs;
• Sales and corporate tax inputs including rate and payment periods;
• Dividend inputs including amount (percentage of retained earnings) and frequency;
• Fixed assets including addition amounts and useful life;
• Borrowings including addition amounts, interest rate and maturity date;
• Share capital additions;
• Discount rate inputs (for valuation calculation).
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'.
KEY FEATURES
• The model contains a flexible timeline that allows for a mix of actual and forecast periods across a 5-year period. This allows projections to be easily rolled forward as forecast periods become actual period;
• Timeline is split on a monthly basis and summarised on an annual basis;
• The model is not password protected and can be modified as required following download;
• The model is reviewed using specialised model audit software to help reduce risk of formula inconsistencies;
• The model allows for the following number of underlying categories for each line item (these can be easily expanded if required):
• Subscription tiers/products – 15 types;
• Other income categories – 5 categories;
• Direct expenses – 5 categories:
• Staff costs – 10 categories;
• Marketing costs – 5 categories;
• Other expenses – 15 categories;
• Fixed assets – 5 categories;
• Borrowings – 3 facilities
• Apart from projecting revenue and costs the model includes the possibility to model fixed assets, borrowings (amortising), dividends and corporate tax;
• Business name, currency, starting projection period are fully customisable;
• Revenue, cost and fixed asset descriptions are fully customisable;
• The model included an integrated discounted cash flow valuation using the projected cash flow outputs;
• The model includes instructions, line-item explanations, 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.
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Source: Best Practices in Integrated Financial Model Excel: iGaming Business 5-Year 3 Statement Financial Model Excel (XLSX) Spreadsheet, Projectify
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