North West Egg Sales Business Plan — Financial Plan: Projected Cash Flow

Operating, investing and financing cash flows across the build and the first five years of lay.

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Financial Plan: Projected Cash Flow

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Operations fund all debt service from Year 2; the funding trough is month 13, with R1.6m of cash still in hand

Month-end cash, build and Year 1 (R million)

Category Month-end cash
M1 10.15
M2 8.45
M3 5.72
M4 1.74
M5 1.65
M6 1.64
M7 7.66
M8 5.02
M9 1.93
M10 1.7
M11 1.62
M12 1.71
M13 1.57
M14 1.58
M15 1.71
M16 2.21
M17 3.06
M18 3.9 R million Y0 Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5
EBITDA (0.3) 3.2 8.4 9.3 8.5 10.1
Add back flock depletion 0.0 3.6 5.6 5.9 6.2 6.5
Pullet purchases 0.0 (6.3) (6.7) (4.7) (7.4) (5.2)
Working-capital movement 0.0 (1.4) (0.1) 0.2 (0.3) 0.2
Tax paid 0.0 0.0 (0.1) (0.8) (0.7) (1.2)
Operating cash flow (0.3) (1.0) 7.2 9.8 6.3 10.4
Capital expenditure (28.5) (16.1) 0.0 (0.7) (0.7) (0.7)
Investing cash flow (28.5) (16.1) 0.0 (0.7) (0.7) (0.7)
Equity injected 14.4 9.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Senior debt drawn 13.5 12.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Asset finance drawn 2.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Debt repaid 0.0 (0.4) (2.2) (2.5) (2.8) (3.2)
Interest paid (0.1) (2.6) (3.2) (2.9) (2.6) (2.3)
Dividends 0.0 0.0 0.0 (0.9) (0.8) (1.3)
Financing cash flow 30.5 19.4 (5.4) (6.4) (6.2) (6.8)
Net cash movement 1.6 2.3 1.7 2.7 (0.7) 3.0
Opening cash 0.0 1.6 3.9 5.6 8.4 7.7
Closing cash 1.6 3.9 5.6 8.4 7.7 10.6

So what: senior debt is drawn only as needed to hold R1.5m of minimum cash, so R0.75m of the R27.0m facility stays undrawn as headroom. Pullet purchases swing between R4.7m and R7.4m a year.