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MODEL OVERVIEW
What Is the Arcade Financial Model?
Arcade Financial Model is an editable Excel workbook, which provides revenue from tickets, visits and additional services over five years with monthly details and financial statements.
Use the workbook to plan revenue from the arcade through a stream of entertainment, combine operating costs and staff, and see how these assumptions flow to financial results.
You can edit stream names, run time, transaction volumes, price adjustments, monthly seasonality and additional income before reviewing scenarios and reports.
Built for arcade planningEditing operational assumptions, while the model carries them through monthly calculations, scenarios and management results.
ARCADE REVENUE ENGINE
How Does the Arcade Financial Model Calculate Revenue?
The model provides for every entertainment stream regardless of the size of the transaction and price matching, applies seasonality once, and then adds included additional entertainment income once.
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Define Streams
Set each entertainment stream arcade and its start time where applicable.
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Forecast Size
Enter your annual or monthly tickets, visits, admissions, rides or sessions through the stream.
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Set Prices
Apply a matching ticket, visit, admission, drive or session price to each stream.
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Use Time
Allocation of annual expenditure through the monthly seasonal period once and adding additional income once.
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Calculate Income
The sum of independently calculated stream revenues and allowed additional entertainment income.
FORM OF CORRECTIONRevenue = stream size × stream price + auxiliary income
01 / REVENUE
Which Arcade Income Entrances Can i Edit?
The revenue worksheet allows you to edit the time of the start of the stream, annual visit or the volume of tickets, price adjustment, seasonality and separate assumptions of additional revenue.
REVENUE
Revenues indicate the size of the stream, visiting prices, additional income, seasonality and expected revenue charts.
02 / COGS & OPEX
How Are Arcade and Operating Costs Organized?
The COGS & OPEX worksheet organises direct costs, variable expenditure, fixed expenditure, start and end dates and monthly operational assumptions.
COGS & OPEX
The cost sheet separates COGS, variable expenditure, fixed expenditure, schedule and monthly calculations.
03 / SCENARIOS
How Can You Compare Low, Core and High?
The Scenarios report compared low, base and high results in terms of revenues, gross margin, premium margins and EBITDA in the five-year forecast.
SCENARIOS
The scenarios maps compare low, base and high revenues, margins and EBITDA for five years.
04 / DASHBOARD
What Does Arcade Dashboard Show?
The data table brings configuration controls, scenario multipliers, basic finances, revenue mix, profitability, cash flow and return on investment in one management view.
DASHBOARD
The dashboard combines model control, scenario results, basic finances, cash flow and return charts.
FIT OF PRODUCTS
Is the Arcade Financial Model Suitable for You?
The template fits the arcade concept, which provides independent entertainment streams with size of activity and prices; generally different operating logic may require custom modeling.
MODEL BY MADA READY
Good Example
You forecast separate revenue streams from arcade from independent volumes of transactions and price matching.
You want annual input data allocated in the monthly seasonality schedule once.
You use separate entertainment income along with the revenue from the main stream.
You want integrated costs, scenarios, statements and management reports in one workbook.
CUSTOMS STRUCTURE
Consider Custom Pattern
Your revenue depends on the significant differences in mechanics beyond independent volume and price streams.
Your operating schedules require structures that are much different from the workflow template.
You need reporting systems or decision results that are based on unique requirements of stakeholders.
You need a custom model architecture instead of customizing the ready-made arcade structure.
The template is the starting point of planning, not a guarantee of performance.
FINANCIAL MODEL SERVICE
Do You Need a Model Built Around Your Requirements?
The financial models of Lab can build or adapt the financial model when you need different revenue logic, operating schedules or reporting for your requirements.
After check-out you will receive a fully editable workbook for Arcade Excel with five-year projections, monthly details, scenarios and financial reports.
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Editable workbook
Download Excel and replace the assumptions built pre-inventory for arcade inputs.
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Five-year forecast
Five financial years project with monthly calculations and annual financial summaries.
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Analysis of scenarios
Compare low, base and high cases through a built-in scenario reporting view.
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Financial statements
Overview of the revenue account, cash flow, balance sheet, distribution panel and other reported accounts.
BEFORE BUYING IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Arcade Financial Model FAQ
The basic answers are visible in their entirety, without clicking on the accordion.
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How Does the Arcade Financial Model Calculate Revenue?
Calculates each entertainment stream from the forecasted transaction size and the matched price, applies seasonality once, and adds the included auxiliary income once.
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What are some of the assumptions that can be changed?
You can change the names of the revenue stream, the dates of launch, where applicable, transaction volumes, matching prices, monthly seasonality and separately entered ancillary income.
03
How can we compare low, base and high scenarios?
The Scenarios report compared low, base and high cases with respect to revenues, gross margin, premium margins and EBITDA over a period of five years.
04
What financial results are taken into account?
The workbook contains a statement of income, a statement of cash flows, a balance sheet, a navigational desk, scenarios, a summary and other management reports shown in the gallery.
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Can the Financial Models Lab adapt it to its own requirements?
Yes. Financial Models Lab can build or customize a model when you need different revenue logic, operating schedules, or reporting.
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Is the workbook a forecast or a guarantee?
This is a planning forecast based on the assumptions you are making. It does not guarantee business results or financial results.
What Does the Arcade Financial Model Contain?
This downloadable financial model for a game center includes everything you need to build a comprehensive financial plan, from detailed revenue forecasts and cost breakdowns to automated financial statements and a visual dashboard.
All-in-one Dashboard
Core inputs and core outputs
Low/Base/High
Three scenario analysis
Professional Charts
Presentation ready
ROE Components
DuPont analysis
Revenue Inputs
Researched revenue assumptions
Bank-Ready Reports
Lender-friendly financial outputs
Revenue Breakdown
Revenue stream detailed view
KPI Dashboard
Performance metrics benchmark
Choosing a selection results in a full page refresh.
REVENUE
COGS & OPEX
SCENARIOS
DASHBOARD
