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Construction business plan financials

Construction business plan financials
Trend setting construction financial application written in MS Excel that has no competition when it comes to close-to-reality construction business projections.
You will not find a better solution as specific, as detailed, and as automated. For consultants there is no limit to the number of projections and construction business plans that can be created. Enter some main assumptions, and start entering your financial data into the clearly marked cells. Use it for a construction or contractor business plan as well as for ongoing monitoring of your construction business.
Key advantages
Offers PlanMagic's Smart Entry System (SES)™ to minimize and significantly speed up data entry.
Validation checks for data consistency.
Development can start up to 5 years prior to operations.
Fiscal year and forecasts can start in any month.
Forecasts include months, quarters, and years.
Up to 5 years can be forecast in one financial workbook, with no limit if multiple workbooks are used.
Views are collapsible for clear summaries.
Costs can be split between fixed and variable cost for contribution, break-even and similar analyses.
Projected balance sheets that are always balanced.
More than 40 charts illustrate trends in expenses, sales, revenues, cash flow and more.
If you have purchased the Advanced Edition -AE-, you can add more product lines and more specific projects and enjoy more detailed financial analysis reports that surpass even the most expensive accounting programs.


PlanMagic Construction Financial Application
The Ultimate in Modern Construction Business Financial Planning & Analysisfor any type of contractor, or construction businesses
- Assumptions (General, form, financial, inventory, loans, tax, franchise, product mix, tax, dividend, and more)- Investment budget (unlimited number of new/existing assets, depreciation schedule using SLN, DB, DDB or SYD)- Funding (shareholders' capital, unlimited number of new/existing loans, deferred loans, flexible loans, amortization - 5 years)- Beginning balance sheet (with/without historic data)- Personnel wizard - add persons, groups or departments (max. 10), monthly and quarterly (3 years), annual (5 years)- Personnel assumptions - payroll burden, hourly/overtime rates, bonuses payment schedule- Personnel plan monthly & quarterly (3 years) - with headcount, payroll, overtime, bonuses and payroll burden summary- Personnel plan annual (5 years)
PROJECTS - Recurring projects details - add up to 3 project lines and up to 5 recurring project types per project line.Sales are estimated by adding the number of each recurring project type per month for the first year. The 2nd and 3rd year are pre-filled and can be adjusted with a growth % per project line, or overwritten. The 4th and 5th year are pre-filled with number of projects and sales amounts based on previous years averages, or can be overwritten.- Specific projects details - add up to 15 (AE up to 50) specific project details.By entering the start date of the unique project, the sales amounts are calculated according to project details, and payment schedules and inserted into the sales projections where appropriate.PRODUCTS (On/Off)- Products wizard to add up to 5 product lines (or market areas) and unlimited products per product line.Enter product details & cost of goods with minimum stock level entry (3 years) - Add/Edit/Remove product lines and products using the wizard.- Sales projections monthly & quarterly (3 years)Recurring projects: enter sales by units per month, Unique projects: automatically inserted according to project start date, Products: enter sales by units or amounts, or in bulk.- Sales projections annual (5 years)- Income statement (Profit & Loss) monthly & quarterly (3 years) - with automated discounts & returns, bad debts and losses & thefts.- Income statement (Profit & Loss) annual (5 years) - with EBITDA and earnings per share details for companies- Cash flow projection monthly & quarterly (3 years) - direct method used- Cash flow projection annual (5 years)- Balance sheet projection monthly (3 years)- Balance sheet projection annual (5 years) - with no. of shares issued and net asset value per share details- Notes to the financial statements - with automated data from the projections- Tax accounts - sales and income tax- Inventory account (5 years)
CONSTRUCTION BUSINESS ANALYSIS
- Historic ratios (3 years)- Projected ratios (5 years) - including IRR/NPV, (AE only: Z-score) for business valuation- Industry standards comparison (5 years)- Loan capacity ratios (5 years)- Annual summary matrix (balanced scorecard) - beginning balance, income statement, cash flow, ending balance (5 years)- Annual dynamic What-If analysis (5 years)- Best/Worst case scenarios (Sensitivity analysis) (5 years)- Comparison analysis - personnel, sales, advertising, income, cash flow, balance sheet (5 years)- Overdraft scenario
THE ADVANCED EDITION - AE - ALSO INCLUDES:
- Development planning (up to 4 phases, 5 years prior and 5 years of planning with automated development timeline)- Specific projects details - add up to 50 specific project details (standard edition max. 15).- Advertising & promotion plan detailed (3 years), annual (5 years)- Annual ROA / ROE / SGR dynamic analysis tree (5 years)- Projected ratios include Z-score- Detailed break-even analysis per product line with break-even charts per product line- Financial summary with CAGR (5 years)- Revenue analysis per product line (5 years)- Timeline with a task wizard (3 years) - entries are as easy as 1-2-3, with project cost, start date and end date- Dashboard of charts- Exchange rate multiplier to easily convert values into another currency BONUS TOOLS
- Equipment, office, lunch room, machinery list worksheets- Projects estimation workbook- Personal financial statement worksheet- Partnership accounts worksheet- USA benchmarks workbook
Feature
Benefit
Automated from A to Z.
Incomparably automated from start to finish. No manual calculations needed.
After the first year numbers are automated based on averages or increase %.
Provides fast results by eliminating unnecessary manual input.
Categorized income statement.
Categorized expenses and extra rows can be added.
Persons, groups, departments personnel plan wizard.
Entry as simple as 1-2-3, departments, groups, persons with monthly or hourly wages, bonuses, overtime, payroll burden.
New projects wizards.
Add recurring and specific projects easily.
New improved sales projections.
Enter monthly sales by units or amounts per product, or in bulk per product line.
More than 40 automated charts.
Gives you a quick overview when and where needed.
Print wizard: quickly print any selection of predefined print areas.
Saves you time collecting data to be printed. Click and Go.
Export wizard: easily export multiple values-only worksheets.
Handy for conferencing or external consultants.
Exchange rate wizard: easily recalculate into another currency.
Indispensable for a global presentation.
The PlanMagic Construction 11.0 Financial Application
The application offers you about 45 worksheets (see the Details for a description of each).A quick browse of the screenshots should give you a pretty good picture of theoverall capabilities of the PlanMagic Construction 11.0 Financial Application.
Main menu
Developments (AE only)
New fixed assets (Investment Budget)
Personnel
Recurring projects
Specific projects
Sales estimation monthly (Sales Projection)
Sales annual summary (Sales Projection)
Cash flow monthly (Cash Flow Forecast)
Projected balance sheet
Annual summary
Break-even Analysis per product line (AE only)
What-If Analysis
Financial Summary (AE only)
Overdraft scenario
The application offers you about 45 worksheets all linked in perfect harmony, so to speak.You can check the Details for a description of each. We hope this helped to give you a goodpicture of the overall depth provided in our state-of-the-art financial application.

Business plan guide
A complete business plan guide in HTML format. The guide covers subjects such as organizational structure, financing (owners' equity, foreign capital), marketing (market analysis, business goals, marketing strategies, advertising), construction business operations (business identity, business location), construction business financials (projections, historic analysis, ratios) and more.

PlanMagic Construction Business Guide
The introduction- How to use- Introduction- Marketing- Historic analysis- Financing- Organizational structure- Financial projections- Analysis- Useful tips
Marketing- The product mix- Analysis current product mix- Competitive research- Market analysis- Marketing goals- Marketing strategies- Operations- Advertising & promotion- Pricing and costing- Sales management- SWOT analysis
Historic analysis- General view- The market position- Balance sheet- Income statement
Organization- Management- Staff- Personnel analysis & expenditures- Administrative organization
Financials- Assumptions- Investment budget- Funding- Beginning balance sheet- Capital- Return on investment- Ratios- Loan capacity
Projections- Personnel plan- Project details- Product details- Sales forecast- Income statement- Tax accounts- Inventory account- The cash flow projection- The balance sheet- Notes to the financial statements- The charts- The time table
Analysis- Annual summary- ROA/ROE/SGR analysis- Break-even analysis- What-if analysis- Sensitivity analysis- Financial summary- Revenue analysis- Comparison analysis- Overdraft scenario
Useful tips- General tips- Company formation- Choosing a bank- Choosing a location- Choosing an accountant- Presenting your plan
Presentation
Easy to complete presentation template (> 50 slides) in PPT (MS PowerPoint) format. You can copy text from the document templates, link to tables in the document template, or link to worksheet data in the financial application. The template contains the same chapters and subchapters as the construction business plan template.

Advantages
PlanMagic Advantages
Legendary Ease of UseDesigned to work the way you work, so you don't have to change your current business processes. Familiar and intuitive MS Office interfaces (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint).
Advanced FunctionalityBuilt-in charts, analysis tools and advanced reports, perform in-depth financial analyses, and much more.
Low Cost of OwnershipStarts at just $124.95 for a single user license, which includes free technical support.
Customer ApprovedUsed by over 100,000 starting and growing businesses around the world. PlanMagic software products serve customers in every industry, including manufacturers, wholesalers, contractors, constructors, distributors, services providers, consultants, non-profits and many many others.
Competitor 'Approved'Though more and more 'competitors' copy our innovative ideas and trend setting concepts into their lesser product(s). There is no competitor for construction business planning.
Backed by PlanMagic CorporationPlanMagic software products are the financial planning and analysis solution recommended by more accountants, CPAs and other business consultants than any other, and we are confident you will be 100% satisfied.
Summary
Easy to use - Use of simple and understandable terms. You do not have to be an accountant.
Thorough - Incredibly complete and thorough.
Automated - Automated financial projections made easy and yet so complete. Sales, investments, depreciation, loan payments, accounts receivable/payable, inventory, dividends, company tax, sales tax, payroll burden and more.
Personnel wizard - add, edit, remove departments, groups and persons easily.
Project estimates - Recurring and Specific project details to easily estimate sales as well as keep tab of your projects.
Product wizard - add, edit, remove product lines and products easily.
Print wizard - Professionally printed results. Business financial printouts are preformatted in Letter, Legal or A4 paper size.
Sales tax - Financials handle US sales tax, VAT, GST or similar calculations.
Multiple currency - The financials can use any currency, and you can use the exchange rate multiplier to quickly update all the values.
Useful guide - Comprehensive business plan guide.
Business plan template - Construction business plan template.
Competitive price - A competitive price of $124.95, Advanced Edition $224.95.
No one knows or cares about your business like you do. Nor will anyone spend the time analyzing or monitoring your financials without it costing you a fortune. Can you afford (not) to get the best available software to get the job done professionally and fast? No one has made it easier for you to write the contents of the construction business plan, offers the same high quality printed result, offers the same level of construction financial projection automation, a complete business plan guide, as well as a good-looking construction business plan presentation template.

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