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Financial Planner
Build a full multi-year financial projection — revenue, costs, P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, and loan schedules. Enter your assumptions once and Nautis renders the statements, ratios, and a dashboard with burn rate and runway.
Templates:5 industriesHorizon:3 or 5 yearsOutputs:P&L, BS, CF, Ratios
5-Year Plan
P&L · BS · Cash flow
Revenue Y3
$12.4M
EBITDA Y3
$2.8M
Cash needed
$3.2M
Revenue trajectory
Y1Y2Y3Y4Y5
Built for
Who uses Financial Planner
Operators forecasting hiring & cash
Teams plugging projections into a board pack
Capabilities
What you can do
Each capability ships out of the box — no setup, no plugins, no extra tools.
Industry templates
Start from SaaS, E-commerce, Restaurant, Services, Mobile App templates — pre-filled with sensible defaults.
3 or 5 year horizon
Pick the projection period that fits your story.
Full statements
P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, and ratios render automatically from your assumptions.
Burn & runway dashboard
Live dashboard surfaces the numbers investors will actually ask about.
Excel & PDF export
Export to Excel for further modelling or PDF for the board pack.
Quick start
From zero to using Financial Planner
- 1
Pick a template
Industry templates pre-fill revenue items and cost categories — or start blank.
- 2
Enter assumptions
Revenue items, cost categories, headcount, and growth rates.
- 3
Read the statements
P&L, BS, CF, and ratios update automatically.
- 4
Export & share
Excel or PDF — bring the projection into a board pack or a deck.
Templates
5 industries
Horizon
3 or 5 years
Outputs
P&L, BS, CF, Ratios
FAQ
Financial Planner questions
Do I need accounting experience to use this?
It helps, but the templates fill in the standard line items so you can focus on numbers, not category names. Read the Notes tab examples to see what assumptions to document.
Can I change the projection period after creating it?
Yes. Use Edit Project and switch between 3-Year Plan and 5-Year Plan. Your inputs are preserved; the extra years are projected using your growth assumptions.
How is runway calculated?
Runway = current cash divided by monthly net burn (cash out minus cash in). Both numbers come from your Cash Flow tab, so keep those inputs accurate.
Can I model a fundraising round?
Yes — add the inflow as a financing line on the cash flow side and adjust equity on the balance sheet. The projection will show the runway extension and the impact on your balance.
Can I share the project with my accountant?
Add them via Shared Access when you create or edit the project. They'll see it in their list and can edit. Or use Export Excel for a one-time send.
What happens to my model if I delete a revenue item?
The P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow recalculate immediately. Nothing else is affected. To keep the line item but switch it off temporarily, set its forecasted units to zero.
Can I import historical numbers?
Use the import option on Revenue Items to pull from your Invoices module if you've been tracking sales in Nautis. Otherwise enter actuals manually for the first year.
Can I link projections to a business plan?
Yes. Linked projects let your Business Plan's Financial Plan section pull straight from your projection.
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