Financial Model for Recycling

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This would be the business you start that slows the building of land fills. If you have demand in your area for things that can be created from recycled materials, than it may be worth a look to model out some scenarios.

This model does a good job at allowing for dynamic material types to get asigned a cost per unit and sell price per unit. Based on this, you can build up some various margins as well as define running costs / startup costs / and any CapEx or financing assumptions.

There are detailed monthly and annual P&L summaries as well as more high level executive summaries that include charts with a clear view of all the cash flows that are relevant to starting and exiting such a business. You can pick the revenue multiples used to determine an exit value.

There is a discounted cash flow analysis built into this as well as IRR, ROI, and net $’s returned per year. Everything is dynamic and gives the user a lot of flexibility so a wide range of scenarios and business types can fit within the recycling world. This is done by drilling down the the basics of revenue generation and cost allocation.