Financial forecast: putting numbers on your creation project

A complete financial forecast is built around a few tables that respond to one another:

• The forecast income statement: revenue, costs and profit over several years.
• The financing plan: start-up needs and resources (own funds, loans, grants).
• The cash-flow plan: inflows and outflows month by month, to avoid running out of cash.
• The break-even point: the activity level at which you cover your costs.

These tables must be consistent with one another: an optimistic revenue figure must rest on the market study, not on a wish.

This is where the European scope truly matters. A director's social contributions, corporate tax rates, VAT and simplified regimes differ widely between France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland or the Netherlands.

The same revenue therefore does not produce the same net profit depending on the country of registration. Your forecast must rest on the real parameters of your country.

The module guides you assumption by assumption and automatically assembles consistent tables (income, financing, cash flow, break-even).

It highlights inconsistencies (for example a break-even point never reached) so you can adjust your assumptions before presenting the project.

To explore the module and its access conditions, see the Solutions IA page and the pricing page.

The forecast is the quantified core of your business plan and of any funding or grant file. It rests upstream on the market study and feeds downstream into your business plan.

If you aim for funding, these tables will also serve a bank file or a fundraising round. To prepare the whole, the Pro journey brings together the key steps.