When each month needs money, and when it pays its own way
The dashed line marks the month you can stop investing.
What the numbers are telling you
How to read this
The plan in stages
Year by year, for 5 years
Your cash over 5 years
The lowest point of the line is the most money you will have out. It includes one-time costs.
Prices behind these numbers
What gets you there
How far one change alone would have to go, with everything else as set on the left. Green means your current numbers already reach it.
These assume demand and carers stay the same. In reality higher prices can reduce demand, and a higher platform share leaves less for carers.
Services a day against carers and profit
A steady month at each volume, once returning customers have matured. The highlighted row is the first that makes a profit.
What moves the investment most
Change in investment if one thing improves, everything else staying the same.
What it takes each day
Carers to bring on, year by year
New carers includes replacing those who leave.
Fixed cost per month at launch
What you pay to stay open, even with no services.
What one service earns
The last line is what pays your fixed costs, once the business is mature.
Where 5 years of spending goes
Excludes payments to carers and GST.
Month by month, for 5 years
How much new money each month needs, and the running total. These totals are before the safety buffer.