The company does not anticipate securing a conventional loan for funding purposes. Our tax rate is initially set at 0% pending further analysis.
Our payroll expense begins in August 2004 as we prepare for our grand opening. Payroll taxes and employee benefits are forecast at 7% of payroll and identified in the Profit and Loss table of this financial plan.
New accounts payable begin in July 2004 with the leasing of space and initial build-out expenses. We anticipate accounts payable for inventory to begin in July 2004.
Our collections days are estimated at 2 days based on credit card (15% of sales) and cash (85% of sales) merchant account processing. We estimate our payment days to be 30 days to our accounts payable. Our inventory turnover is estimated at 7 days.
All purchased equipment, as well as the build-out costs, will be expensed, which will reduce the asset base of the company.