Evaluating any investment to make in your business requires the foresight to understand the potential impact on your cash flows. Does the price justify the investment? Is there a better use of the capital? This thought process becomes even more challenging when initiating a remodel or building a new to industry site. Instead of one decision with several variables, you are now faced with the coordination of multiples of decisions and variables. Prairie State Energy has developed and remodeled a number of sites on our own behalf, and many more on behalf of our customers. In the process we have also developed proprietary tools to help understand the financial impacts that these types of decisions can have on you and your business. One such tool attached is a financial analysis model co-developed by PSE and RSM McGladrey.

Sample Reports

Proforma Income Analysis (27 KB)

Project 1st Year Assumptions (22 KB)

Project Expense Assumptions (29 KB)

Project Income Assumptions (30 KB)

Project Investment Summary (14 KB)

While the attached financial analysis appears to be just a simple one-page summary, please note that there are hundreds of variable inputs (individual revenue and expenses, loan interest rates, sales projections, rental income, fuel and store margins, etc.) in this model. After entering the input of all these variables, we can either produce simple summaries such as the attached or far more complicated cash flow analysis (i.e. Pro Forma) that become the foundation for creation of a bank package to submit and secure bank financing.

PSE also has performed a host of other types of financial consulting for our customers including:

• Benchmark customer invoice pricing vs. Prairie State Energy invoice pricing for suppliers
• Fuel branded and unbranded financial package evaluation
• Financial analysis for adding quick serve restaurants

Environmental Responsibility is Part of Our Mission.

Prairie State takes environmental responsibility very seriously. As such, we are extremely progressive when it comes to reducing our carbon footprint and protecting the environment, our natural resources and the communities we serve. We strongly encourage all of our customers to undertake a similar approach.

We have taken measures including the utilization of technology and underground monitoring equipment for our customer locations to detect leaks and provide warnings when a problem is detected. We continue to work with several regional environmental firms on behalf of our customers to navigate the complexities of regulatory compliance and/or remediation if necessary.

PSE encourages the use of energy saving items such as LED lighting and photocell-controlled lighting switches. We also recommend environmentally sound practices such as the use of reclaimed water for car washes, the purchase of environmentally sustainable consumables such as coffee and fountain cups, lids, straws, etc. This also extends to selecting earth-friendly and bio-degradable soaps, solvents and cleaning products. We all need to advocate for our planet and the communities and customers we serve.

At Prairie State, we are truly committed to protecting the environment and we are always looking for new and better ways to embrace environmental responsibility.

Technology continues to evolve and touch our lives in new ways. It can certainly simplify and eliminate many activities in our business, all the while reducing the opportunity for human error. We deploy technology, and encourage our customers to do so as well. A great example of this relates to fuel management technology. We deploy this technology to link our carrier to your tank monitoring equipment to track gas inventory, order fuel electronically and provide timely deliveries.