Financial Modelling & Fundraising Support

Make your growth plans easier to assess with a financial model that connects revenue, costs, cash flow and funding needs. KBA builds and reviews financial models for founders, business owners and management teams across the UK, Qatar, the UAE and international markets.

Discuss your financial model

Financial models for raising funds

We help translate your business plan into financial projections that investors and lenders can question and understand. Start with the amount you need to raise, how you will use it and the milestones the funding should support.

Our experience includes supporting successful fundraising totalling millions across Qatar, the UAE and the UK. We bring that experience to the assumptions, funding requirements and valuation discussions behind your next raise.

What your model can include

• Integrated financial statements: connected profit and loss, balance sheet and cash-flow forecasts.
• Revenue and cost drivers: assumptions for pricing, sales volumes, staffing, margins and operating costs.
• Funding requirements and cash runway: when additional cash may be needed and how long available funds could last.
• Scenario and sensitivity analysis: compare your base plan with faster growth, delayed sales or higher costs.
• Investment and financing: model capital expenditure, working capital, borrowing and planned equity funding.
• Management reporting: budgets, actual-versus-forecast comparisons and decision-focused dashboards.

Support beyond fundraising

A financial model can also support acquisitions, a new location, product launches, business restructuring or annual budgeting. We can build a model from the ground up or review an existing spreadsheet for consistency, assumptions and usability.

For a transaction or ownership decision, combine modelling with our business valuation and financial due diligence services. For a US venture, plan the numbers alongside company formation and ongoing accounting requirements.

From business plan to usable model

1. Define the decision: explain the audience, purpose, forecast period and deadline.
2. Agree the assumptions: review historical accounts, sales plans, contracts, staffing and planned spending.
3. Build and review: connect the financial statements and examine scenarios with you.
4. Handover: receive the agreed model, an explanation of its assumptions and guidance on keeping it current.

Free template or bespoke financial model?

Start with the decision you need to make, not the number of spreadsheet tabs. Our free cash-flow and fundraising Excel template is a 12-month monthly starting point for receipts, payments and funding timing. It is not a full integrated profit and loss, balance sheet and cash-flow model.

• Use a simple template when you can explain the receipts and payments directly and want to test a small number of assumptions.
• Discuss a bespoke model when you need connected financial statements, detailed staffing or sales drivers, several entities or currencies, borrowing schedules, or a specific investor reporting format.
• Add shorter-term detail when payments fall due before receipts within a month. A positive month-end balance can hide an earlier gap. Our practical cash-flow review shows why a weekly or daily schedule can matter.

ICAEW’s cash-flow guidance emphasises choosing a useful level of detail, using sound inputs and revisiting assumptions as the business changes. A larger workbook is not automatically a better answer.

A five-line brief for your modelling consultation

1. The decision: what you want to decide, who will use the model and when they need it.
2. The scope: forecast period, monthly or weekly detail, entities and currencies.
3. The starting point: whether accounts, an existing model and a documented sales or staffing plan are available.
4. The uncertainty: the assumptions you most need to test, such as customer payment timing, hiring dates or sales capacity.
5. The handover: required outputs, who will update the model and whether you want a walkthrough or separately agreed ongoing support.

Illustrative brief, not client work: a UK IT consultancy wants to assess two planned hires over the next 12 months. Its brief would connect delivery capacity, billable work, payroll and customer collection dates, and ask which assumptions would change the hiring decision. That is more useful than asking for a particular number of sheets.

Request a financial-modelling consultation with this short summary. Keep bank statements, customer records and financial identifiers out of the initial form; agree secure document sharing separately. We confirm the scope and fee before work begins.

General business-planning guidance; source checked 10 September 2026. Any tax or payroll inputs need the rates and payment dates applicable to your business and period.

What to prepare

Bring recent accounts or management reports, available forecasts, your business plan, details of existing finance and the decision you need the model to support. An early-stage business can start with a clear explanation of its commercial assumptions.

We agree the deliverables, fees, timetable and any ongoing update support before work begins. Forecasts depend on their assumptions, and funding decisions remain with investors and lenders.

Planning a raise, acquisition or expansion? Tell us what you need to model.