Models that can see actuals
Financial models are more trustworthy when they start from posted revenue, expenses, and cash. Capitallytics keeps modeling, forecasting, and valuation in Business Workspace next to the account book.
Outputs remain educational planning tools, not investment recommendations.
What you can build in Models
The Models area of Business Workspace groups the modelling tools in one place. The Statements studio starts a profit and loss, balance sheet or cash-flow statement from templates such as Ind AS Schedule III, IFRS, US GAAP, SME and startup layouts, keeps a version history, and exports to PDF, Excel or CSV.
The FP&A studio handles driver-based plans: revenue as an amount, units × price or growth; costs by department and cost centre; and drivers for hiring, salary inflation, churn, pricing, marketing spend and capex, each with base, best, worst and custom scenarios. The valuation studio covers DCF, comparables and other methods with labelled assumptions and a sensitivity grid.
Because these tools sit next to the ledger, a model can start from posted revenue and costs instead of numbers typed in from memory. Projected figures stay labelled as projections and never overwrite booked actuals.
Good modelling habits
Separate fixed costs from costs that move with revenue. A hire adds a fixed monthly cost; delivery costs or payment fees usually scale with sales. Mixing the two makes every scenario look either too safe or too risky.
Change one assumption at a time, write down why, and compare against the baseline before combining changes. A model with ten moving parts and no record of what changed is hard to trust and harder to explain to a co-founder, lender or investor.
Check the break-even point for each decision. Knowing how much extra revenue a new cost needs is often more useful than any single forecast figure.