Financial Forecast Model - Established Businesses

The Established Business Model provides members with an easy-to-use method for creating five-year financial forecasts for businesses that have one or more years of historical financial information.

The model operates on your historical financial information, which you will be prompted to enter. Your historical information, plus a few assumptions, will create your first draft of a comprehensive five-year financial forecast for your business. This first draft is principally a "momentum forecast" - a forecast based largely on your company's historical performance.

Change any or all of the first draft assumptions to see how the changes impact future results; and to produce a "working" forecast. You may save any versions of the forecast you would like for future reference.

The output of the Established Business Financial Forecast Model consists of:

• The primary financial statements - annual income statements, balance sheets and cash flow statements.

• A narrative report which organizes and provides an interpretation of the forecast results.

• Several pages of documentation detailing the key assumptions underlying the forecast.

• Actual and forecasted financial ratio data and statistics which are used by business managers, banks and other providers of capital to evaluate financial performance.