Economic-Financial analysis of the “Goodrabbit” rabbit farm in a rural environment

Abstract

This project is focused on data from a real company, specifically a family business created more than 30 years ago that is dedicated to rabbit production, which carries out its activity in a rural environment close to the village of Altura (Castellón), within the Alto Palancia. The work will begin by making a brief description of how the business was created and how it has evolved throughout its history, it will briefly comment on how the rabbit farming sector works and the benefits or disagreements that having the livestock farm in a location rural as Alto Palancia. In more detail and as the core of the work, which will be developed with a large part of real data provided by the company, the economic and financial profitability of this business will be analyzed through an economic-financial analysis of the last 5-10 years that will allow numerically diagnose the balance between profitability and risk. Both analyses, the economic and the financial, will allow the situation in which the company is to be analyzed based on the data and detect which parameters must be corrected or monitored. Finally, it will try to make a comparison of the company located in the rural environment of Alto Palancia with another company with similar characteristics that is in a non-rural environment to determine with all the information collected in the work the conclusions that they provide us, the data regarding its profitability of the development of the rabbit activity and if, within a comparative scope, a rabbit business in the rural environment of Alto Palancia is greater, lesser or equally profitable than in a non-rural environment.