Financial and Production Planning/Analysis

Description: A customized ongoing service that focuses on annual tracking and planning that is customized to fit your business.

This service may include:
- Monthly, quarterly, or annual farm consultations and financial records analysis
- Budget to actual comparison
- Accrual analysis
- Benchmarking
- Financial ratio analysis
- Monthly cash flows
- Annual business and financial planning
- Business audit
- Production monitoring

      Feasibility & Business Planning

Description: The feasibility study looks at a projected situation in a typical year in the future. It will compare several alternatives side by side to see which is the most economically viable.

Description: The detailed business plan will help you in decision making and securing financing. It is the “road map” or “ramp up” to get us to our feasibility study end point.

Feasibility/Business Plan Scope of Work May Include:
- Discuss and identify long and short term goals - personal and business
- Initiate written business plan emphasizing history, operations, management, goals and    plans
- Provides financial projections using your farm financial information
- Develop operational timetable
- Assemble historic and current financial information (balance sheets, income statements,    and tax records)
- Assemble historic and current production records
- Identify new assets to be used in the business
- Update balance sheet(s)
- Create feed and crop budgets
- Milk price history
- Develop and analyze business alternatives
      Assumptions
      Profit/Loss
      Sensitivities
      Benchmark Comparisons
- Assemble, package, deliver, and review client feasibility study package
- Meet with lender to review

      Expansion & Dairy Development

Description: Expansion & Dairy Development is complete expansion consulting–from initial planning and design to final walk through of completed facilities.
- Design development
- Bidding and contractor selection
- Building process monitoring
- Facilitate transition process

Description: A complete Dairy Accounting Services program to meet the financial needs of today’s dairy operations. From simple to complex, from cash to accrual, DBC will design a program appropriate to your current needs with the ability to evolve as your business changes.

Evaluation-Determine your accounting needs. With our unique approach of combining financial and operations consulting, both accounting and business needs will be considered.

Processing-Determine the level of accounting services needed for set-up; training for recording income, expense, and payroll transactions; and ongoing consultative support.

Reporting-Preparation of financial statements for lenders, accountants, tax reporting, and management analysis.