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• Business name registration = $102/3 years

• Poison's permit (allows me to obtain the sedations used) = $163 application fee + $109/year

• Veterinary Practice Board WA license (to practice as a veterinarian)= $465/year

• Veterinary House Call Practice permit (to allow me to practice outside a clinic) = $530 application fee + $420/year

• Professional indemnity insurance = $408.05/year

• Public liability = $355.52/year

• Wix Website = $174.55/year

• Wix business email = $58.80/year

• Google ads = $127.75/fortnight

• MOO Business cards and distribution = $324.83

• Safe and Lock (securely holds the sedations) = $133.74 (large one for home, small one for travel, Bike lock to secure small safe to the vehicle)

• Lockable door knob (to secure sedation on FFH premise) = $67.98 ($35 for the door knob, $32.98 for appropriate installation)

• Safe sorter = $3.50

• Tourniquet = $47.36 (4 different sizes)

• Stretcher = $296.24

• Cardiac stethoscope = $621.50 (7 year warranty)

• Sharps bin = $19.21 (one large, one small)

• Zolitel 100mg/ml (0.85ml/10kg) = $98.97/5ml vial (expires 8 days after reconstitution, assume 10% wastage)

• Lethobarb 325mg/ml (0.5ml/kg) = $186.99/250ml bottle
  
  Additional sedation (circumstantial)

• Acepromazine 10mg/ml (0.05ml/10kg) = $53.59/100ml bottle (assume 10% wastage)

• Propofol 10mg/ml (4ml/10kg) = $5.90/20ml vial (assume 10% wastage)

• Wipes (clean any blood stains of fur) = $3.33/100 wipes

• Medical tape = $1.42/5M

• 5ml syringe = $29.14/100 syringes (assume 10% wastage)

• 10ml syringe = $24.37/100 syringe (assume 10% wastage)

• Black needle = $6.48/100 syringes (assume 10% wastage)

• Blue butterfly catheter = $0.91/butterfly catheter (assume 10% wastage)

• Blue Straight catheter = $1.75/straight catheter (assume 10% wastage)

• Document sorter = $16.59

• Document case = $8.95/270 sheets

• Stapler = $7.98

• Display file = $2.50/2 display files

• Clipboard = $2.75

• Receipt book = $9.74/50 receipts

• Pens = $20.98/12 pens (assume 1 pen is lost every 5 appointments)

• Paper+ink for Client forms = $0.11/form

• Private cremations = benefit of $50

• General cremation = cost of $35​

• Crematorium FOB = $56.98

• Crematorium Storage (documentation, tags etc.) = $49.95

• Phone bill for 0428 666 261 (used for personal use) = $89/month

• Travel (I use an electric vehicle - BYD Seal dynamic) = $0.76/20km

• 37% Tax on profit (sole trader) = $64.15

• ​Veterinarian wage = $50/hr (likely to change if another veterinarian and nurse are hired)

• Appointment charge = $550 (regardless of weight, time and travel)

• Cost per fortnight = $363.17

• Profit after tax= $149.68

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*Assuming one appointment per fortnight; 20kg dog; travel is 20km to and from; vial of zoletil per week with none of the other sedations utilised; 70% private cremation + 20% general cremation + 10% home burial;  equipment and stationary are paid off in 1 year; travel and euthanasia takes an average of 1.5 hour. Profit likely increases with more appointments per fortnight.