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8.1 Financial Statement Analysis

Anthony, Christine and Sofia began by entering in our sales projections that we had arrived at earlier in Section 5.7, 5.8 and 5.9 into the modules. Thus we start with our sales projections of $250,000 year 1, $300,000 for year 2, and $350,000 for year 3 respectively. As you know from our sales forecasting sections there are three possible economic scenarios that we considered when looking at sales forecasting - the slow market, the good or normal market and the great market. We decide to go with the good or normal market condition numbers for the projections in our financial modules since it presented the middle of the road approach towards projections which we felt was appropriate.

Compensation Forecast:

In our compensation forecast, we are projecting that the following salaries will be drawn by the owners:

  1. Anthony Cruz will draw a salary of $40,000, $52,500 amd $63,000 in Year 1, 2 and 3 respectively.
  2. Christine Esposito being the largest shareholder will be drawing a salary of $55,000, $70,000 and $84,000 in yeas 1, 2 and 3 respectively.
  3. Sofia Diaz who has the same equity ownership as Anthony, will again be drawing $40,000, $52,500 and $63,000 in years 1, 2 and 3 respectively.

All the owners have good personal balance sheets and understand that their business is a pay for performance business - if business is slow, they will have to lower the amount of salaries they give themselves and vice versa. They are are drawing modest salaries with an eye towards building the cash reserves of the business and making sure that it has the capital needed for future growth.


The largest operating expense for a small business like Spotless Homes is of course compensation. Besides the owners, the company will not be hiring any additional staff. The total compensation expense for the firm is expected to be $135,000, $175,000 and $210,000 in 2015, 2016 and 2017 respectively.

Capital Contributions:

The initial capital contribution from the owners will be a total of $10,000. Anthony and Sofia will be making 30% each of the total contribution by bringing $3,000 to the table.
Christine will be responsible for the remaining $4,000 representing the remaining the other 40%. The owners don't think that they will need to make any additional contribution to the business, but they are ready, willing and able to do so if the need were to arise.

Loan & Interest Expense Summary:

We will be taking out a fully amortizing term loan from a large lender where we will be paying back both principal and interest on the loan every month. We have anticipated that a loan in the amount of $17,100 at 8% interest for 4 years should do the job for us and we are projecting that we will be putting in for this loan at the outset.

As we keep paying this loan down, we anticipate that the at the end of each year we will have the following projected principal balance outstanding - $13,322, $9,230 and $4,799 for 2015, 2016 and 2017 respectively.

Fixed Asset & Depreciation Summary:

The fixed assets of $108,800 that we have entered in for 2015 includes the upfront capital investments in customized landscaping trucks along with tools and equipment, assets like furniture & fixtures, computer hardware & software, printers, security systems, deposit etc that we will need to run the business for the next three years.
We don't anticipate adding any more to our existing fixed asset infrastructure unless one of the pieces of equipment goes bad - even in that instant, our product warranties and additional insurance riders should be enough to cover the contingencies.

The fixed assets of $13,500 that we have entered in for 2015 includes the upfront capital investments to the location, furniture and fixtures, tools & cleaning equipment that will be needed to perform the work, computers and office equipment and security deposit. All these investments in fixed assets will be used to run the business in the coming years. We don't anticipate any other significant investments in fixed assets. In the event of the pieces of cleaning equipment like high end vacuum cleaners goes bad, we will making sure that the repair is covered under the extended warranties that we will be purchasing when we buy the equipment.

Purchases, Inventory & Cost of Goods Sold:

In this section we simply enter in the cost of goods sold for each year along with the changes in inventory if any. The projectedcost of goods sold in our case will be $0 since there no intrinsic cost of production for any of our services. This is fairly common for service oriented businesses like Spotless Homes. Also very common in the service business is no inventory. Typically service businesses don't have any tangible physical inventory besides the purchases of initial tools they need and hence the inventory numbers for all three years of operations are projected to be at $0.


Accounts Receivable Summary:

In the plumbing contractor business the management of accounts receivables tends to be a major issue especially with large contracts. However since Spotless Homes is a small sized house cleaning service, they will be instituting and following a policy of payment upon completion of service. In those instances that they do give their clients the ability to pay them after the completion of the job, their payment terms will be Net 7 - bottom line customers are going to have to pay up within 7 days of the completion of the services. Further if the jobs are larger than $300, we will be asking their customers to provide them with a deposit. Based on all these elements, Anthony, Christine and Sofia are estimating that their accounts receivables for each of the three years in the business plan will be no more than 0.25% of sales.


Accounts Payable Summary:

Anthony, Christine and Sofia will be following a policy of payment upon delivery - paying promptly for the purchases made is one of the hallmarks of excellent cash flow management and fiscal discipline - a common reason why many house cleaning small businesses fail. With all this in mind, we are projecting a very modest accounts payable of 0.15% of all purchases made for their first three years of operations.

Security Deposit:

A security Deposit in the amount of $2,800 is what we anticipate paying our landlord and that security deposit will of course remain with the landlord for the duration of the three years that are being projected here. This security deposit represents two months rent.

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