- Date: Tuesday 15 September 2026, 10:00 – 11:00
- Location: Online webinar
- Cost: FREE
This session demystifies franchise finances, helping participants understand the true cost of investment, assess projections realistically and make informed decisions beyond the headline fee.
The financial conversation in franchising is routinely reduced to the franchise fee. The full picture, total investment, working capital requirement, management service fee structure, realistic timeline to breakeven, and what happens financially when the business grows more slowly than projected, is considerably more complex.
This session provides a plain-language guide to franchise financial literacy for prospective buyers and business owners considering franchising their own model.
What you’ll learn
- Understand the full cost of a franchise investment beyond the headline fee – including setup costs, working capital and the realistic financial investment required during the ramp-up period.
- Evaluate a franchise’s projected financial figures critically, identifying what to question, what a realistic projection looks like, and where optimistic assumptions most commonly appear.
- Understand how management service fees work in practice, including the difference between turnover-based percentages and fixed fee structures and what each means for the franchisee and the Franchsor’s actual return.
Julie Taylor covers what a financially sound franchise investment looks like, how to read a franchise’s projected figures honestly, how management service fees work in practice, and how to assess whether the numbers presented at a discovery day reflect commercial reality.
Participants leave knowing which figures to challenge, which assumptions to test, and what the full cost of entry genuinely looks like beyond the headline number the prospectus leads with.
The goal is informed decision-making, at the point where it still matters.
Part of the Franchising for Growth series
Franchising for Growth is a series of one-hour webinar sessions running from August to December 2026. Discover how you can use the franchise model to grow a successful and sustainable business. Learn from experts who have been through the process themselves and can share their knowledge to help you throughout your franchising journey.
To access the events you’ll need to sign up to the Business Academy from the Department for Business and Trade (DBT). It’s completely FREE to join and takes only a few minutes to get started.