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🐝 Beekeeping Business Financial Model: TCO, Depreciation & ROI

An interactive 3D cost tower that turns apiary investment, upkeep and honey revenue into a year-by-year chart of book value, cumulative cost and cumulative revenue, with a live break-even marker.

Entomology & Insect Behaviour3DAdvanced60 FPS

A 3D cost tower that turns apiary bookkeeping into columns you can walk around: equipment book value shrinking with depreciation, cumulative total cost of ownership climbing with upkeep, and cumulative honey revenue racing to overtake it.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Each year gets three linked bars — remaining book value, cumulative TCO, and cumulative revenue — so you can see exactly when growing income crosses accumulated spend, marked by a glowing payback beacon on the ground plane.

🎮 How to Use

Set the equipment investment, hive count, per-hive revenue and upkeep, then switch between straight-line and declining-balance depreciation to see how the accounting method reshapes the book-value bars without changing the payback year.

💡 Did You Know?

Declining-balance depreciation front-loads the expense, which is why many small operators favour straight-line for its predictability — even though the underlying equipment often loses real resale value fastest in its first couple of seasons.

⚙ Under the hood

An interactive 3D cost tower that turns apiary investment, upkeep and honey revenue into a year-by-year chart of book value, cumulative cost and cumulative revenue, with a live break-even marker.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install