Skip to content
Felix
  • Topics
    • My List
    • Felix Guide
    • Asset Management
    • Coding and Data Analysis
      • Data Analysis and Visualization
      • Financial Data Tools
      • Python
      • SQL
    • Credit
      • Credit Analysis
      • Restructuring
    • Financial Literacy Essentials
      • Financial Data Tools
      • Financial Math
      • Foundations of Accounting
    • Industry Specific
      • Banks
      • Chemicals
      • Consumer
      • ESG
      • Insurance
      • Oil and Gas
      • Pharmaceuticals
      • Project Finance
      • Real Estate
      • Renewable Energy
      • Technology
      • Telecoms
    • Introductory Courses
    • Investment Banking
      • Accounting
      • Financial Modeling
      • M&A and Divestitures
      • Private Debt
      • Private Equity
      • Valuation
      • Venture Capital
    • Markets
      • Economics
      • Equity Markets and Derivatives
      • Fixed Income and Derivatives
      • Introduction to Markets
      • Options and Structured Products
      • Other Capital Markets
      • Securities Services
    • Microsoft Office
      • Excel
      • PowerPoint
      • Word & Outlook
    • Professional Skills
      • Career Development
      • Expert Interviews
      • Interview Skills
    • Risk Management
    • Transaction Banking
    • Felix Live
  • Pathways
    • Investment Banking
    • Asset Management
    • Equity Research
    • Sales and Trading
    • Commercial Banking
    • Engineering
    • Operations
    • Private Equity
    • Credit Analysis
    • Restructuring
    • Venture Capital
    • CFA Institute
  • Certified Courses
  • Ask An Instructor
  • Support
  • Log in
  • Topics
    • My List
    • Felix Guide
    • Asset Management
    • Coding and Data Analysis
      • Data Analysis and Visualization
      • Financial Data Tools
      • Python
      • SQL
    • Credit
      • Credit Analysis
      • Restructuring
    • Financial Literacy Essentials
      • Financial Data Tools
      • Financial Math
      • Foundations of Accounting
    • Industry Specific
      • Banks
      • Chemicals
      • Consumer
      • ESG
      • Insurance
      • Oil and Gas
      • Pharmaceuticals
      • Project Finance
      • Real Estate
      • Renewable Energy
      • Technology
      • Telecoms
    • Introductory Courses
    • Investment Banking
      • Accounting
      • Financial Modeling
      • M&A and Divestitures
      • Private Debt
      • Private Equity
      • Valuation
      • Venture Capital
    • Markets
      • Economics
      • Equity Markets and Derivatives
      • Fixed Income and Derivatives
      • Introduction to Markets
      • Options and Structured Products
      • Other Capital Markets
      • Securities Services
    • Microsoft Office
      • Excel
      • PowerPoint
      • Word & Outlook
    • Professional Skills
      • Career Development
      • Expert Interviews
      • Interview Skills
    • Risk Management
    • Transaction Banking
    • Felix Live
  • Pathways
    • Investment Banking
    • Asset Management
    • Equity Research
    • Sales and Trading
    • Commercial Banking
    • Engineering
    • Operations
    • Private Equity
    • Credit Analysis
    • Restructuring
    • Venture Capital
    • CFA Institute
  • Certified Courses
Felix
  • Data
    • Company Analytics
    • My Filing Annotations
    • Market & Industry Data
    • United States
    • Relative Valuation
    • Discount Rate
    • Building Forecasts
    • Capital Structure Analysis
    • Europe
    • Relative Valuation
    • Discount Rate
    • Building Forecasts
    • Capital Structure Analysis
  • Models
  • Account
    • Edit my profile
    • My List
    • Restart Homepage Tour
    • Restart Company Analytics Tour
    • Restart Filings Tour
  • Log in
  • Ask An Instructor
    • Email Our Experts
    • Felix User Guide
    • Contact Support

Building a Full Project Finance Model

Understand how to engineer a large project finance model.

Unlock Your Certificate   
 
0% Complete

25 Lessons (98m)

Show lesson playlist
  • Description & Objectives

  • 1. Main Model - Uses of Funds

    05:01
  • 2. Main Model - Sources of Funds

    03:54
  • 3. Main Model - Other Assumptions

    02:57
  • 4. Main Model - Revenues and Variable Costs

    03:58
  • 5. Main Model - Depletion of Soft Costs and PP&E

    09:29
  • 6. Main Model - Asset Retirement Obligation - Asset

    03:19
  • 7. Main Model - Asset Retirement Obligation - Liability

    02:10
  • 8. Main Model - Income Statement

    03:36
  • 9. Main Model - Calcs - Operating Working Capital

    03:06
  • 10. Main Model - Calcs - Equity

    01:52
  • 11. Main Model - Balance Sheet

    04:04
  • 12. Main Model - Cash Flow Preparation

    02:17
  • 13. Main Model - Cash Flow from Operations

    03:50
  • 14. Main Model - Cash Flow from Investing and Financing Activities

    04:03
  • 15. Main Model - Cash Flow Available for Debt Service

    03:05
  • 16. Main Model - Revolving Credit Facility

    06:00
  • 17. Main Model - Syndicated Loan

    08:48
  • 18. Main Model - Debt Service Reserve Account

    05:39
  • 19. Main Model - Non-Cash Interest

    02:23
  • 20. Main Model - Wiring Up the Debt Lines

    01:43
  • 21. Main Model - Interest During the Construction Phase

    03:15
  • 22. Main Model - Interest During the Operational Period

    03:03
  • 23. Main Model - Returns to Equity Holders

    03:30
  • 24. Main Model - Loan Life Coverage Ratio

    03:30
  • 25. Main Model - Structuring the Debt

    03:06

Prev: Building a Simple Project Finance Model Next: Introduction to Renewable Energy

Main Model - Cash Flow Available for Debt Service

  • Notes
  • Questions
  • Transcript
  • 03:05

Modeling a large project finance model - cash flow for debt servicing

Downloads

Main Model - Cash Flow Available for Debt Service EmptyMain Model - Cash Flow Available for Debt Service Full

Glossary

Cash Flow Available for Debt Service cash flow for debt servicing CFADS debt service coverage ratio modeling Project finance
Back to top
Financial Edge Training

© Financial Edge Training 2025

Topics
Introduction to Finance Accounting Financial Modeling Valuation M&A and Divestitures Private Equity
Venture Capital Project Finance Credit Analysis Transaction Banking Restructuring Capital Markets
Asset Management Risk Management Economics Data Science and System
Request New Content
System Account User Guide Privacy Policy Terms & Conditions Log in
Transcript

Now let's work on our finance sheet. We're gonna build our cash flow for debt servicing, and we're gonna do it for the operational phase starting in year four. So let's begin with EBITDA. We can get our EBITDA from the income statement, if we take the operating profit in the first year of operations and then we add back the depletion for that year as well as the amortization for that same year. And we get 235.4, the tax expense. We can also take that from our income statement all the way down. We we get a tax expense of 23.2. Of course, we're assuming that all of these taxes are cash taxes. Now the rest of the items can be taken from the cashflow statement. So let's begin with the asset retirement payments. Let's go to the cashflow statement and pull that number. Just make sure you're taking it from the very first operational year, our increase or decrease in operating working capital.

Let's take that from row 11 on the cashflow statement. Our CapEx also from the cashflow statement, just a little lower in row 14.

And right below that we have our cash soft asset expenditure. If we add all of these numbers up, we get our unlevered free cash flow. But this is not quite the cash flow available for debt service because we're going to take into account a debt service coverage ratio. Now this ratio is an assumption that we can find in the sources and uses section of the model.

We have a debt service coverage ratio of 1.3 let's lock that in. And what this means is that for every $1.30 of unlevered free cash flow, we can use only $1 to service our debt. And that includes our interest and debt repayments. So to compute our cash flow available for debt service, we can take the unle free cash flow of 194.8 and divide it by the debt service coverage ratio of 1.3. And that's gonna give us 149.8 available for debt servicing. We don't yet have our interest expense, so we're gonna skip this line for now. But we can compute our cashflow available post interest for debt repayment only as the sum of the 149 and the interest expense amount. And of course, for now it's gonna be 149.8. So the last step then to complete this section is to take all of our formulas and copy them to the right until the very last operational year.

Content Requests and Questions

You are trying to access premium learning content.

Discover our full catalogue and purchase a course Access all courses with our premium plans or log in to your account
Help

You need an account to contact support.

Create a free account or log in to an existing one

Sorry, you don't have access to that yet!

You are trying to access premium learning content.

Discover our full catalogue and purchase a course Access all courses with our premium plans or log in to your account

You have reached the limit of annotations (10) under our premium subscription. Upgrade to unlock unlimited annotations.

Find out more about our premium plan

You are trying to access content that requires a free account. Sign up or login in seconds!

Create a free account or log in to an existing one

You are trying to access content that requires a premium plan.

Find out more about our premium plan or log in to your account

Only US listed companies are available under our Free and Boost plans. Upgrade to Pro to access over 7,000 global companies across the US, UK, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Hong Kong and more.

Find out more about our premium plan or log in to your account

A pro account is required for the Excel Add In

Find out more about our premium plan

Congratulations on completing

This field is hidden when viewing the form
Name(Required)
This field is hidden when viewing the form
Rate this course out of 5, where 5 is excellent and 1 is terrible.
Were the stated learning objectives met?(Required)
Were the stated prerequisite requirements appropriate and sufficient?(Required)
Were the program materials, including the qualified assessment, relevant and did they contribute to the achievement of the learning objectives?(Required)
Was the time allotted to the learning activity appropriate?(Required)
Are you happy for us to use your feedback and details in future marketing?(Required)

Thank you for already submitting feedback for this course.

CPE

What is CPE?

CPE stands for Continuing Professional Education, by completing learning activities you earn CPE credits to retain your professional credentials. CPE is required for Certified Public Accountants (CPAs). Financial Edge Training is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors.

What are CPE credits?

For self study programs, 1 CPE credit is awarded for every 50 minutes of elearning content, this includes videos, workouts, tryouts, and exams.

CPE Exams

You must complete the CPE exam within 1 year of accessing a related playlist or course to earn CPE credits. To see how long you have left to complete a CPE exam, hover over the locked CPE credits button.

What if I'm not collecting CPE credits?

CPE exams do not count towards your FE certification. You do not need to complete the CPE exam if you are not collecting CPE credits, but you might find it useful for your own revision.


Further Help
  • Felix How to Guide walks you through the key functions and tools of the learning platform.
  • Playlists & Tryouts: Playlists are a collection of videos that teach you a specific skill and are tested with a tryout at the end. A tryout is a quiz that tests your knowledge and understanding of what you have just learned.
  • Exam: If you are collecting CPE points you must pass the relevant CPE exam within 1 year to receive credits.
  • Glossary: A glossary can be found below each video and provides definitions and explanations for terms and concepts. They are organized alphabetically to make it easy for you to find the term you need.
  • Search function: Use the Felix search function on the homepage to find content related to what you want to learn. Find related video content, lessons, and questions people have asked on the topic.
  • Closed Captions & Transcript: Closed captions and transcripts are available on videos. The video transcript can be found next to the closed captions in the video player. The transcript feature allows you to read the transcript of the video and search for key terms within the transcript.
  • Questions: If you have questions about the course content, you will find a section called Ask a Question underneath each video where you can submit questions to our expert instructor team.