Tuesday, February 19, 2008

All Hail PowerPoint

J came over yesterday afternoon with the various visual ideas he's been working on, it's a mix of mood boards and simple water colours. All in all the results provide a useful visual prompt card for our ideas. There are magazine cutouts of furniture, lighting and other fitout thoughts, along with a couple of watercolour paintings giving the general palette and feel.

The task now is to meld these into the Power Point presentation and get it off to the bank, which we'll do today.

We've also tidied up the financials, including full fitout budgets for the two cafes, and cash flows for the first two years, showing capital requirements, operating income/expense, cash etc. I think the structure works fine - eg the relationship between the numbers, the ratios and so on. Even if the actual numbers fluctuate, the budget should retain its shape fine. The numbers show that with a couple of cafes up and running, we should be doing ok. The 4 cafes gives us the scaling benefits, and an aggregate EBIT that's pretty acceptable, providing we can hit the targets.

Here's the Power Point, albeit with the financial summaries removed. I won't post the full financials either. Perhaps there is some mystery we should maintain.

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