Strategic Focus is a financial planning tool. It delivers an objective financial analysis and interpretation of historical results and proposed business strategies. It estimates the value of businesses. It includes EVA (tm), or Economic Value Added, concepts.
Managing to maximize value means generating, choosing and implementing the best alternative business strategy. Strategic Focus provides management and advisers with a disciplined and effective approach to evaluate alternative financial strategies.
- The summarised income statement, balance sheet, cash flow and results are integrated into a single screen with drill down capabilities for entering detailed data.
- Historical data is entered and analyzed in both du Pont format and Economic Value Added formats.
- Financial forecasts for several years are loaded or created easily.
- Includes full trend graphics capability.
- "What-If" scenarios are available for all parameters on the income statement / profit and loss account and balance sheet. Strategic Focus identifies the key financial sensitivities.
- Two-way goalseeking and sequential targeting facilitate working to- and from - a desired result.
- Valuations are performed quickly and easily.
- Actual results can be entered to monitor actual performance against budget. A financial health assessment report writer is included.
- Flow charts facilitate understanding of key performance measures.
Features | Actuals - Enter monthly, quarterly or year to date | Goalseeking capabilities on key performance indicators. |
| Actuals versus budget comparison | Graphics |
| Budget can be:- | Import a plan from Cash Focus. |
Calculate or enter key parameters: - Cost of sales%
- Contribution%
- Gross margin / profit %
- Variable expenses: Sales %
- Fixed expenses: Sales %
- Total expenses: Sales %
- Short term interest rates
- Long term interest rates
- Income tax rate
- Dividend%
- Debtors days
- Inventory days
- Creditors days
- Accruals %
| Key performance indicators - Profitability
- Activity
- Return on capital employed (ROCE)
- NOPAT%
- Net cash
- Marginal cash
- Operational cash
- Free cash flow
- Debt to Equity
- Working Capital%
- Sustainable growth
- Capital turnover
- Economic ROCE
- Annual value created
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| Calculator built in | Password entry to program. |
| 'Changes' button reports the effect of any variation. | Print - To printer, screen or file. |
| Compare strategies | Sensitivity analysis of key variables. |
| Consolidation facility. | 'Spinner buttons': - Instantly view the effect of price and / or volume changes. |
| Cost of capital calculation screen. | Tax calculated |
| Create unlimited number of models and "What-if" scenarios. | 'Undo button' |
| Du Pont methodology included. | Valuation methods include - Free cash flow
- Economic value added
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| Equity and debt capital specified and costed. | Value based adjustments simplified. |
| Export results. | What-if capabilities. |
Financial health assessment report: - Edit existing target ranges
- Compare actuals achieved to budget with pre-set targets
- Customize report.
| Windows application. |
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