IT/Tech Service Provider 5-Year Financial Projection Model (Excel XLSX)

BENEFITS OF DOCUMENT

1. Preparation of a 5-year financial projection on a monthly basis for a new or existing IT / Tech service provider offering recurring and/or one-off IT/Tech services and related products.

DESCRIPTION

This product (IT/Tech Service Provider 5-Year Financial Projection Model) is an Excel template (XLSX) with a supplemental Excel document, which you can download immediately upon purchase.

An IT/Tech Service Provider 5-Year Financial Projection Model is crucial for technology businesses. It forecasts income, expenses, and cash flows, aiding strategic planning, pricing decisions, and resource allocation. It supports decision-making related to project bids, staffing, and technological investments. Accurate projections empower IT service providers to adapt to market dynamics, secure funding, and ensure sustained profitability. It enhances financial stability, attracts investors, and supports long-term growth by aligning financial strategies with the ever-evolving tech industry. This model is indispensable for both established IT service providers and startups, ensuring their financial viability, competitiveness, and ability to provide cutting-edge solutions while managing costs effectively.

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 IT / Tech service provider generating revenue by providing recurring and one-off IT/Tech services to customers and selling IT/Tech products.

The model allows the user to model up to 20 categories of IT/Tech services split into recurring and one-off each with their own mix of direct staff and direct expense requirements. The model also allows the user to model revenue and cost of sales from sale of IT/Tech products. Apart from revenue and direct costs, the model allows the user to model direct staff utilisation, indirect staff costs, marketing costs, other administrative costs, fixed assets, inventories, receivables/payables, borrowings, sales tax impacts, corporate tax and dividend distributions.

The model follows good practice financial modelling principles and includes instructions, line item explanations, checks and input validations and incorporates a discounted cash flow valuation calculation using the projected cash flows.

KEY OUTPUTS
The key outputs include:
•  Projected full financial statements (Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash flow Statement) presented on a monthly basis across up to 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 revenue growth, average profit margins, average return on assets and equity and average Debt to Equity ratio;
Bar charts summarising income statement and balance sheet projections;
Revenue and gross profit by service category and volume of services offered over time presented in a table chart formats
Revenue and gross profit by product category presented in table and chart formats.
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 service categories, product categories, (in)direct staff, direct materials, direct expenses, marketing costs, staff costs, admin costs, fixed assets and borrowings;
•  Sales tax applicability for services, products, direct costs, and other expenses and fixed assets.

Actuals Inputs:
•  Opening balance sheet (for existing businesses);
•  Income Statement actuals (for trend analysis);

Projection Inputs:
•  Service revenue inputs including volume of services, rate per service, direct staff hours per service and assumptions on settlement of sales receipts;
•  Product revenue including purchase quantity, cost price, mark-up, safety stock percentage and assumptions on settlement of sales receipts and purchase payments;
•  Direct expense inputs including direct expense per service;
•  Staff cost inputs including staff numbers, working hours, average salary per full time position, average employer's social security percentage of salary, average annual bonus and bonus payment months.
•  Other costs inputs including marketing costs and admin 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 and interest rate;
•  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'.

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 contains a flexible timeline that allows for a mix of actual and forecast period 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 allows the user to model up to 20 separate service categories and 10 product categories with their own unique direct cost setup;
•  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):
services – 20 categories split into recurring and one-off services;
products – 10 categories;
Staff costs – 5 direct categories and 5 non-direct categories;
Direct expenses – 5 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 receivables and payables, fixed assets, borrowings, 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.

Source: Best Practices in Integrated Financial Model, Information Technology Excel: IT/Tech Service Provider 5-Year Financial Projection Model Excel (XLSX) Spreadsheet, Projectify