The answer is how many kilograms that cycle must sell before it begins to earn. Write it on the room door. It turns an accounting idea into a daily target.
Break-Even, Cash Flow & Risk
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Costs, sales and cash
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From crop to customer
The process
In the field
- 08Define what the calculation includes
- 09Keep four records rather than one profit number
- 10Reconcile the kilograms before calculating revenue
- 11Worked learning example: from harvest to cash
- 12Test a weaker crop and a slower buyer
- 13Write it in your farm notebook
- 14Fund the gap between paying for inputs and collecting sales
- 15Where the field guidance comes from
Revenue, Cost & Cost/kg
- 16Revenue, Cost & Cost/kg
- 17Receipts are not profit
- 18Receipts are not profit · continued
- 19The three cost layers
- 20Cost per kilogram and its denominator
- 21A published model figure is not your figure
- 22A published model figure is not your figure · continued
- 23Read the numbers in context
- 24Read the numbers in context
- 25Cost sheet for one finished cycle
- 26Avoid these mistakes
- 27Check your understanding
- 28Check your understanding
- 29Check your understanding
- 30Words used in this lesson
- 31Sources and field reference
CAPEX, OPEX & Working Capital
- 32CAPEX, OPEX & Working Capital
- 33Capital spend buys the box
- 34Capital spend buys the box · continued
- 35Operating spend feeds the box
- 36Working capital is a timing problem
- 37Working capital is a timing problem · continued
- 38Where the scheme does not help
- 39Where the scheme does not help · continued
- 40Read the numbers in context
- 41Read the numbers in context
- 42Read the numbers in context
- 43Three column bill sort
- 44Avoid these mistakes
- 45Check your understanding
- 46Check your understanding
- 47Check your understanding
- 48Words used in this lesson
- 49Sources and field reference
Market Validation
- 50Market Validation
- 51From an assumption to a buyer
- 52From an assumption to a buyer · continued
- 53Grade and pack decide the price
- 54Grade and pack decide the price · continued
- 55Shelf life draws your selling radius
- 56Shelf life draws your selling radius · continued
- 57Channel, price and payment
- 58Channel, price and payment · continued
- 59Read the numbers in context
- 60Read the numbers in context
- 61Read the numbers in context
- 62Three weeks of buyer evidence
- 63Avoid these mistakes
- 64Check your understanding
- 65Check your understanding
- 66Check your understanding
- 67Words used in this lesson
- 68Sources and field reference
Break-Even, Cash Flow & Risk
- 69Break-Even, Cash Flow & Risk
- 70Break even in kilograms
- 71Break even in kilograms · continued
- 72Run the downside first
- 73Run the downside first · continued
- 74Cash flow month by month
- 75Cash flow month by month · continued
- 76A risk list you will actually use
- 77Read the numbers in context
- 78Read the numbers in context
- 79Read the numbers in context
- 80Build three cases on one sheet
- 81Avoid these mistakes
- 82Check your understanding
- 83Check your understanding
- 84Check your understanding
- 85Words used in this lesson
- 86Sources and field reference
Practise and review
Sources and next steps
English learning edition · Independent technical review pending. Keyboard: focus the reading page and use ← / →. Page turning does not mark practical competence.