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Sales Growth Rate


DeaconG

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Hi Folks-

Long time reader, first time poster! I look forward to making a formal introduction soon...

We are working on testing the honesty of some of the projections in our BP. To that end, I was wondering if anyone would be willing to share, on a percentage basis, their annual revenue growth, especially years 3-5, and how it was accomplished (self-distrib, wholesalers, line extension, etc). Thanks in advance for any feedback!

Cheers,

Ian

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The typical way to evaluate business plan projections is to do a sensitivity analysis. That is, how much does a change in sales change the net profit.

You can do a monte carlo simulation, but that's overkill in most cases.

Doing a pessimistic, optimistic, and most likely scenario is probably good enough.

You'll need to tie it all back into pro forma balance sheet and income statements. As sales go up, so does your net working capital requirements. That means you'll need lots more cash, and you'll have to get it from somewhere. It's typically not possible to sustain high growth without external financing.

About 60% of bankrupt companies had positive net incomes. So it's pretty easy to "grow yourself to death" if your product is popular.

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