LibGuides: Business Plan & Pitch Presentation: #5. Financial Analysis and Projections

Financials

In this section, provide comprehensive projected financial documentation for a minimum of three years, including:

Projected income or profit-and-loss statements
Projected balance sheet outlining your assets and liabilities
Projected cash flow statement illustrating the inflow and outflow of funds within the company

It's crucial to articulate a clear strategy for how your business will generate sufficient profits to repay loans or deliver a solid return on investment to your backers. Additional information may include a break-even analysis, assumption sheet, and documented start-up cost.

Resources for Developing Your Financials Component:

Financial Modeling for Business Owners and Entrepreneurs Developing Excel Models to Raise Capital, Increase Cash Flow, Improve Operations, Plan Projects, and Make Decisions
Textbook for learning to create operational and financial models in Excel that describe the workings of your company in quantitative terms.
Raising entrepreneurial capital
Textbook that provides useful, practical advice to any aspiring entrepreneur in the all-important task of funding their new business.
Business Financial Planning with Microsoft Excel
Textbook that teaches how to plan and put into motion an idea for creating a start-up company, and presents a usable financial model to build and tweak a financial plan.
Financial planning & analysis and performance management
Textbook that provides insightful reference for critical areas including: budgeting and forecasting, analysis, and performance management, financial communication, metrics, and benchmarking.