We are a cleantech startup, ABEN HUB, that focuses on launching our design platform for renewable energy developers. With any launch, having a financial plan is one of the keys to success, and we would like to involve students in creating one for our new venture.

This will involve several different steps for the students, including:

• Learning about our business strategy from various employees to become familiar with our goals, mission, and products.
• Creating forecasts using Excel (or another financial software) for sales in the first year of operation as well as an income projection (conservative and aggressive).
• Working with our team to develop an expense budget.
• Conducting a break-even analysis timeline using financial projections.
• Reporting on projected assets and liabilities.
• Including visual comparisons such as graphs and charts to show the differences between the conservative and aggressive income projection.

By the end of the project, students should complete the following list of activities:

• Sales forecast and an income projection for the first and second years of operations.
• Break-even analysis using the sales forecast and expense budget.
• Projected assets and liabilities ABEN HUB will have in the first and second years of operations.
• Visuals in the report to help us understand the differences between the conservative and aggressive income projections.

Final deliverables:

• Report including a sales forecast, income projection, expense budget, break-even point, assets, liabilities, as well as any calculations and assumptions used.
• A presentation explaining all research and findings from the report that can be presented to investors and funding agencies