The Financial Plan: Hisrich Peters Shepherd
The Financial Plan: Hisrich Peters Shepherd
Hisrich Peters
McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright 2010 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
Shepherd
The plan explains how the entrepreneur intends to meet financial obligations and maintain the ventures liquidity.
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Capital budgets provide a basis for evaluating expenditures that will impact the business for more than one year.
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Table 10.2 - A Sample Operating Budget for First Three Months ($000s)
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Projections of all operating expenses for each of the months during the first year should be made.
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Increasing selling expenses as sales increase should be taken into account. Changes in expenses during the first year can necessitate month-by-month illustration. Increase in individual expenses need to be reflected in the first years pro forma income statement. Projections should be made for years 2 and 3 as well; consider expenses that are likely to remain stable over time.
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Table 10.3 - MPP Plastics Inc., Pro Forma Income Statement, First Year by Month ($000s)
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Table 10.6 - MPP Plastics Inc., Pro Forma Cash Flow, First Year by Month ($000s)
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Table 10.7 - MPP Plastics Inc., Pro Forma Balance Sheet, End of First Year ($000s)
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Break-Even Analysis
Breakeven - Volume of sales where the venture neither makes a profit nor incurs a loss. The break-even formula:
B/E(Q) = __________TFC______________ SP-VC/unit (marginal contribution)
Major weakness in calculating the breakeven lies in determining if a cost is a fixed or variable.
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Uses/ Applications:
Software Packages
A spreadsheet program (Microsoft Excel) is most suitable for completing pro forma statements.
Helps present different scenarios and assess their impact on the pro forma statements.
A simple and easy to use software is useful in the start-up stage. Software packages vary in price and complexity.
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