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I didn’t know where to start, so this template saved me from staring at a blank sheet for days. I had a first-pass construction forecast ready in one afternoon.
I didn’t know where to start, so this template saved me from staring at a blank sheet for days. I had a first-pass construction forecast ready in one afternoon.
I’m not an Excel power user, and this was still easy to follow. The layout helped me build a clean 5-year plan without hiring someone to walk me through every tab.
One broken formula used to throw off my whole model, but this template kept things organized. I caught issues faster and got a lender-ready version finished without rechecking every cell for hours.
This editable five-year Excel and Google Sheets workbook modeled customer acquisition, service allocation, cohort life, invoicing hours, hourly rates and related financial results.
Use the model to transfer customer acquisition through marketing, maintenance of service cohorts, billing hours, hourly rates, operating costs, employment and capital needs to the structured financial forecast.
The Editable assumptions flow through monthly calculations to profit and loss account, cash flow, balance sheet, low / base / high scenarios analysis and navigation desktop views shown in the workbook.
Revenues come from active cohorts of customers allocated to different levels of construction services, retained for a specified life-cycle and converted into invoicing hours at an hourly rate of each level.
New customers equals marketing expenses divided by customer acquisition costs.
New customers are allocated to different levels of construction services and maintained at each level for a specified customer maintenance period.
Active customers are equal to beginner customers and groups of customers who are in a life-time setting.
Invoicing time equal to active customers times the average invoicing time per active customer each month.
The monthly level products are equal to the hours invoiced times the hourly rate and then added at different levels and months.
The income assumptions view combines marketing, CAC, customer allocation, cohort life, active customers, invoicing hours, hourly rates and seasonality.
Revenue assumptions
The COGS view and operational expenditure separates the assumptions of direct costs from variable and fixed costs over the forecast period.
COGS and operating expenses
The scenario analysis compares the Low, Base, and High variants for revenue, gross margin, contribution margin and EBITDA over five years.
Analysis of scenarios
You can use the dashboard to view configuration controls, scenario results, basic finances, a mixture of revenue, profitability, cash flow and payback period investments all in one place.
Dashboard
The template fits the planning of customer cohorts based on acquisition, service allocation, maintenance of customers, invoicing hours and hourly rates; significantly different operating logic may require individual modelling.
The indicator is the starting point for planning, not a guarantee of performance.
The financial model laboratory may build or adapt a model when different revenue logic, operational schedule or reporting is needed than this model.
Order of the financial model for the orderAfter purchase you will receive an editable five-year financial model for Excel and Google Sheets as an immediate download.
Edit the assumptions and planning shipments in the downloaded worksheet model.
A five-year review forecast with detailed monthly cash flow and annual reporting.
Compare Low, Base, and High cases in model scenarios.
Use the included P&L, cash flow, Balance Sheet, dashboard and Supplemental Reports.
The basic answers are visible in their entirety, without the need to click on the accordion.
It accepts new customers from marketing expenses and CAC, allocates and stops cohorts according to service level, transforms customers active in invoicing hours and applies hourly rates.
You can edit the start date, initial customers, annual marketing budget, monthly seasonality, CAC, new customers allocation, customer life, accountable hours for active customers and hourly rates.
In view of the analysis of the scenario, the alternative paths of revenue, gross margin, contribution margin and EBITDA under the five-year forecast are compared.
The product includes a navigational desktop, profit and loss account, cash flow report, balance sheet, summary, balance, ROIC, charts, KPIs, indicators and valuation.
Yes. the Financial Models Lab offers personalised financial modelling for different revenue logics, operational schedules or reporting requirements.
It is a planning forecast based on edited assumptions and not a guarantee of business results.
This general contractor budget template excel download provides everything you need for robust financial planning and analysis in one organized file.
Core inputs and core outputs
Three scenario analysis
Presentation ready
DuPont analysis
Researched revenue assumptions
Lender-friendly financial outputs
Revenue stream detailed view
Performance metrics benchmark