Aurum Model
Model Settings
Date range, annual price escalation, and starting cash for the cash-flow projection.
How these numbers flow through the model
Cash on hand is your actual bank balance at the start month. It seeds the running balance, and every forecast flow adds to or draws from it. Because a bank balance already reflects everything collected and paid to date, nothing before the start month moves cash again.
YTD actuals feed the P&L only: the YTD column, the year totals, and the valuation basis. They never touch the cash balance — what YTD activity collected is already inside cash on hand, and what it hasn't collected yet belongs in the Accounts Receivable section below.
Annual increase % steps on calendar years (not anniversaries): a model starting mid-2026 applies the first increase in Jan 2027, compounding each year after.
Brands
The brands in this model. Openings are entered per brand; each brand gets its own SKU mix below.
How brands flow through the model
openings × units per location × sale price, summed across the brand's SKUs. A brand with
openings but no SKUs — or SKUs but no openings — produces nothing, and gets flagged here when that happens.
SKU Detail
Each SKU belongs to a brand and sets its own units per location. It also has a sale price, base unit cost, country of origin, HTS code, tariff % and inbound shipping. Landed cost = base cost × (1 + tariff%) + shipping; margin & markup update live, and the financials use the landed cost for COGS. Buy (cash out to supplier) anchors to order (opening − lead time) or receipt (opening date). Sell (cash in from customer) anchors to the location opening date — deposits land before (− days), final payments after (+ days). Percentages are of unit cost (buy) or sale price (sell).
How a SKU turns into P&L and cash — the timing rules
• The order month = opening month − lead time. A 90-day lead time means an August opening was ordered in May — so a "50% at order" deposit is May cash out, months before the opening books any revenue.
• Sell milestones hang off the opening date: a −30-day deposit collects the month before opening, a +30-day final collects the month after.
• Day offsets convert to calendar months on a 30-day convention, rounding half-up: 0–14 days = same month, 15–44 = 1 month, 45–74 = 2 months. Net-30 terms land one month out regardless of whether the month has 30 or 31 days.
• The Buy from / Buy until window gates on the order month: a window ending September still supplies every opening whose order was placed by September, and those receipts, revenue and payments flow forward on schedule.
Each side's milestones should total 100% — that's what guarantees every dollar of revenue eventually shows up as cash in, and every dollar of COGS as cash out, just shifted in time.
Aurum Import Parts - MOQ 1000 ⚠ 2 Pilates Addiction 13/loc Price $850 Landed $441 Margin $409 (48.2%) Lead 90d Buy 2027-01 → 2027-07 2 buy 1 sell
- Purchase window (2027-01 → 2027-07) covers 52 of 172 planned openings — the other 120 sell none of this SKU.
- MOQ is 1000 but 12 of 12 planned orders are smaller (down to 39 units). The forecast buys exactly what the openings need — it does not round up to the MOQ, so real COGS and cash out would be higher.
Aurum Import Parts - MOQ 250 ⚠ 2 Pilates Addiction 13/loc Price $850 Landed $595 Margin $255 (30%) Lead 90d Buy 2026-07 → 2026-12 2 buy 1 sell
- Purchase window (2026-07 → 2026-12) covers 91 of 172 planned openings — the other 81 sell none of this SKU.
- MOQ is 250 but 11 of 12 planned orders are smaller (down to 39 units). The forecast buys exactly what the openings need — it does not round up to the MOQ, so real COGS and cash out would be higher.
Aurum Manufacturing ⚠ 1 Pilates Addiction 13/loc Price $6,080 Landed $5,200 Margin $880 (14.5%) Lead 60d 2 buy 1 sell
- MOQ is 169 but 3 of 12 planned orders are smaller (down to 39 units). The forecast buys exactly what the openings need — it does not round up to the MOQ, so real COGS and cash out would be higher.
Aurum Plating ⚠ 1 Pilates Addiction 13/loc Price $1,050 Landed $841 Margin $209 (19.9%) Lead 30d 1 buy 1 sell
- MOQ is 52 but 1 of 12 planned orders are smaller (down to 39 units). The forecast buys exactly what the openings need — it does not round up to the MOQ, so real COGS and cash out would be higher.
Aurum Upholstery - Domestic ⚠ 1 Pilates Addiction 13/loc Price $655 Landed $555 Margin $100 (15.3%) Lead 30d Buy 2026-07 → 2026-10 1 buy 1 sell
- Purchase window (2026-07 → 2026-10) covers 56 of 172 planned openings — the other 116 sell none of this SKU.
Aurum Upholstery - Foreign - 1000 MOQ ⚠ 2 Pilates Addiction 13/loc Price $655 Landed $206 Margin $449 (68.5%) Lead 90d Buy 2027-01 → 2027-12 2 buy 1 sell
- Purchase window (2027-01 → 2027-12) covers 52 of 172 planned openings — the other 120 sell none of this SKU.
- MOQ is 1000 but 12 of 12 planned orders are smaller (down to 39 units). The forecast buys exactly what the openings need — it does not round up to the MOQ, so real COGS and cash out would be higher.
Aurum Upholstery - Foreign - 250 MOQ ⚠ 2 Pilates Addiction 13/loc Price $655 Landed $344 Margin $311 (47.4%) Lead 90d Buy 2026-10 → 2026-12 2 buy 1 sell
- Purchase window (2026-10 → 2026-12) covers 46 of 172 planned openings — the other 126 sell none of this SKU.
- MOQ is 250 but 11 of 12 planned orders are smaller (down to 39 units). The forecast buys exactly what the openings need — it does not round up to the MOQ, so real COGS and cash out would be higher.
Location Orders Forecast (Openings)
Store openings per brand per month — everything flows from here.
How openings drive the whole forecast
OPEX Detail (bottom-up)
Build OPEX from the ground up, line by line. Paid in controls how each line hits the year: Spread ÷ 12 applies the monthly amount to every month; picking a month makes the line a lump — the amount becomes the annual payout landing in that month each year (bonuses in December, an insurance premium in March). Collapse the list once it's set — the totals stay live.
How OPEX flows through the model
No OPEX items yet — use the suggestions above or add your own below.
Capital / Funding
One row per capital line (loan, equipment financing, equity injection, owner draws). Each line has two halves and you can use either or both: Received in is the month the money arrives — cash in of the full total. Leave it blank for a line that is only ever repaid. Start / End month schedule the repayment — cash out each month of principal (total ÷ months) plus interest on the remaining balance. A draw with no repayment window is how you model equity or a grant.
Principal hits the cash balance only — it's a balance-sheet movement, not an expense. Interest is an expense, so it also appears on the P&L Interest line (its cash is already in the capital row, so it isn't charged twice).
How funding lines flow through the model
total ÷ months principal + interest on the remaining balance. Capital rows show separately
on the cash flow, never touch revenue or COGS, and ignore the sensitivity sliders — funding is an
operator decision, not a scenario. Collections owed on work you already shipped are not funding —
enter those in the Accounts Receivable section below so they're labeled as collections and tracked apart
from what the model forecasts.
No funding lines yet — add one below to start modeling capital flows.
Accounts Receivable
Collections still owed on work shipped before 2026-07Old AR, spread over the months you expect to collect it. Each line: total owed, first/last collection month, optional interest %/yr on the outstanding balance. Shows as its own row on the cash flow.
How AR flows through the model — and why it can't double-count
total ÷ months evenly across its window as cash in, plus
interest charged monthly on what's still outstanding. Three rules keep every dollar counted exactly once:• No P&L from principal. The revenue behind this AR was earned before the start — it belongs in your YTD revenue, which feeds the P&L. Collections here are cash only. (Interest is the exception: it's new income earned in the forecast period, so it credits the P&L Interest line.)
• Only future months collect. Cash on hand is your bank balance at the start month, so anything scheduled before the start is treated as already banked and skipped — the line's summary shows exactly how much, if any.
• Only pre-start work belongs here. Locations opening on or after the start month already collect through their SKU sell milestones — putting them here would count them twice. This section is the maximum owed on shipments before 2026-07, nothing later.
The sensitivity sliders never stretch AR — the work is already shipped; a bigger openings scenario can't change what you're owed.
No AR lines yet — add the balances still owed on pre-start shipments below.
Capital & Exit
Cost of capital charges interest each month on any financing shortfall (a negative running cash balance) — it shows as an Interest line in the P&L and is paid in the cash flow. That P&L Interest line also carries the interest on any funding lines above. Exit value applies your multiple to the chosen metric for a selected period. Both update live with the sensitivity scenario.
How the valuation is computed
× 12 ÷ months) and that's always disclosed. Company value = annualized metric × multiple.
AR carry-in never inflates it: principal collections aren't revenue (only their small interest credit
touches Net Income).
Saved scenarios
Each scenario captures its own openings / COGS / OPEX flex — values shown are independent of the live page sliders.What the sliders actually scale
Per-brand adjustments — openings & COGS
Financial Output
How to read these tables — what lands in which month
Projected Cash Flow re-times the same money: Cash In follows each SKU's sell milestones, AR rows add the collections owed on pre-start shipments, Cash Out follows buy milestones (lead times pull supplier deposits into the months before the window — those columns show cash but no P&L), plus OPEX and capital lines. Running Balance starts at cash on hand and each column's movement equals its Net Cash — in every view.
The sensitivity sliders flex forecast openings, COGS and OPEX only. AR and capital never flex: money already owed to you or borrowed by you doesn't change with the scenario.
Location Orders Forecast — planned store openings per brand
Projected P&L
Projected Cash Flow
Running balance starts from cash on hand ($0) — your bank balance at the start month, which already includes everything YTD collected and paid. From there it moves with each SKU's payment milestones (deposits & final payments), AR carry-in collections, OPEX, and capital lines.
By Brand & SKU — product P&L & cash flow, each SKU under its brand subtotal (OPEX, interest & capital are company-wide — see the totals above)
SKU Summary
Included SKUs only — price, landed cost & margin per unit.