Runway and Cash Budget Template for Excel and Google Sheets
Originally published: 29/01/2019 08:09
Last version published: 21/12/2020 08:50
Publication number: ELQ-81412-10
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Runway and Cash Budget Template for Excel and Google Sheets

Three year financial model template for Excel + Google Sheets to plan expenses, build a cash budget and forecast runway.

Description
Three year financial model template for Excel or Google Sheets to plan your expenses, create a cash budget and forecast runway. Prebuilt with unit economics key charts and summaries of cashflows, operating costs, and runway, for monthly, quarterly, and annually. Analyze unit economics, margins, breakeven, customer acquisition cost, and LTV. Used by pre-seed and Seed stage companies. Unlocked - edit anything - last updated in June 2020.

Financial template to forecast your expenses, cash and runway by inputting your revenues, costs, and funding (optional). Automatically builds charts of cash on hand, cash burn, operating costs, sources and uses of funds, and founders ownership percentage compared to traction and cash.

Key features

The free Runway and Cash Budget Tool is the simplest structure of the base financial models - so that you can create a cost budget, estimate revenues, and understand burn, cash, and runway as quickly as possible. Automatically creates consolidated financial statements, summary chart of burn and runway, summary of operating expenses, and sources and uses of funds (optional). Detail fundamental unit economics, breakeven, and customer lifetime value.

Used by founders and investors

Made for founders, executives, advisors, mentors, or consultants that need to create a cost budget and runway forecast with the simplest structure possible.

Easy to use

Standards-based, extensively tested and used by thousands of companies across a wide variety of business types, revenue models, and needs.

Edit anything

Use in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets; all cells and formulas are unlocked for editing and transparency, add on or edit for your specific situation.

I use Github to track issues, feature requests, and collaborations. Tool subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. See details and contribute at https://github.com/foresighthq/runway-tool

Personal support

Built by a professional financial modeler with experience as an investor and running forecasting inside startups. Responsive, personal support — chat, call, or email — and available for custom services. I created the financial models behind Foresight so early-stage entrepreneurs can spend less time on finance and more time on their products.

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1 Excel (.xls) model for use in Excel for Windows, Mac, Online, and Google Sheets

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Further information

The free Runway and Cash Budget Tool is used to build a cost budget and forecast cash and runway. It’s intended to be a simple model with easy inputs for expenses, revenues, and external funding, so that you can get a handle on burn, cash and runway quickly and easily. It is the simplest of the base financial models used for creating financial forecasts - and is a good starting point for idea-stage, pre-seed, and even seed-stage founders, advisors, mentors, or consultants that need to create a cost budget and runway forecast with the simplest structure possible.

Startups looking to create a basic forecast of costs and communicate their burn, runway, sources and uses, and traction.


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