Financial Modeling

Audience: CXOs, Entrepreneurs, Management Consultants, Investment Bankers, Hedge Funds and Fund Managers.

Solutions: Mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, strategic transformation, operational financial reporting, joint ventures, strategic initiatives, business plan evaluation etc.

Benefits: Quick turnaround, convince investors, do not give up equity more than necessary, fine tune operational strategy, at-a-glance dashboards, business-focused consultants, deep corporate finance expertise, and robust models.

Budgeting

Audience: CXOs, Entrepreneurs, Management Consultants, Vice Presidents and SVPs in-charge of budgeting.

Solutions: Solid budget projections, rolled up department budgets, dashboards with graphs and charts, What-if analysis and Scenario analysis, Budget Vs Actual.

Benefits: Quick turnaround, ground-up and convincing budgets, assess profitability and risk, at-a-glance dashboards, ability to take end-to-end responsibility, ability to maintain confidentiality across departments, ability to incorporate Budget Vs Actual, What-if and scenario analysis, business-focused consultants, and robust models.

Model Audit

Audience: CXOs, Entrepreneurs, Management Consultants, Investment Bankers, Hedge Funds and Fund Managers, Vice Presidents and SVPs.

Solutions: End-to-end model audit, stress testing, detailed formula testing, readability and presentation audit, accounting check.

Benefits: Quick turnaround, reduce model risk, stress test models, audit trail with ability to trace tested assumptions, readability and presentation audit, thoroughness.

Decision Support

Audience: CXOs, Entrepreneurs, Management Consultants, SVPs and VPs.

Solutions: Interactive decision support tools, scenario and what-if analysis, Strategic initiatives, contract negotiation, compensation modeling, litigation modeling.

Benefits: Quick turnaround, minimize model risk, at-a-glance dashboards, business-focused consultants, robust models, and thoroughness.

Troubleshooting

Audience: CXOs, Entrepreneurs, Management Consultants, Investment Bankers, Hedge Funds managers and other Fund Managers, Vice Presidents and SVPs.

Solutions: Robust revenue or expense modeling, complex formula support.

Benefits: Quick turnaround, tap expertise for specific areas and complete model on time, independent advice, make the model work.

Financial Modeling for a Silicon Valley Hi-Tech Company

Case Study
The CEO of a recently funded silicon valley hi-tech company wanted to control the strategic direction of the company. The company was making investments in sales and marketing, hiring, inventory and new product development. Sales are still trickling in. He wanted to assess cash position on a regular basis and evaluate various sales and investment strategies.

Solution
Our financial model covers all the departments – product development, sales, overheads, and inventory. Revenue modeling with order-to-inventory and sales modeling that integrates into financials gives one-click scenario analysis for various levels of investment and sales scenarios. The model generates income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement instantly. The model has an awesome dashboard summarizing key performance indicators. If you would like something like this to be created, contact us.

New York Startup Funding

Case Study
A startup company into emergency response systems approached us to build a financial model so the client can approach an investor. The client was in a hurry and needed quick turnaround.

Solution
Perceptive swung into action. We assessed client’s business needs and investor’s preferences. We created a financial model that has three scenarios – best case, most likely and worst case. Critical assumptions (like pricing and key costs) are entered as scenarios and the client can select which scenario she wants to present. A clean dashboard presents a comprehensive picture to the investor. If you would like something like this to be created, contact us.

Valuation for a Private Equity Fund

Case Study
A private equity fund was contemplating investments into a flight operations company and wanted us to value the company ground up. Specific areas of concern were diverse areas of operation of the company, growth projections, cost estimates and future cash flow projections.

Solution
Perceptive Analytics has domain knowledge in aviation sector. We have created a comprehensive model that takes revenue projections based on number of air crafts served, the company’s current pricing structure, company’s projections and investment plans. The model has a dashboard that enables what-if scenarios and shows instantly the impact of revised strategies on valuation. For extra comfort, we have valued based on both discounted cash flow and EBIDTA multiple based valuation. To have something like this created for you, get in touch with us.

Outsourced Budgeting

Case Study
The CEO of a medium sized company approached Perceptive to create budget for the company. The company did not have internal budgeting capability. The CEO wanted to reign in expenses, avert an impending cash crunch and understand the impact of planned investments and explore variances. The CEO was keen to maintain confidentiality between departments.

Solution
Perceptive created a five part budget model. The department budgets can be separated and consolidated. Perceptive trained team members in budgeting and established the ground rules and orchestrated the budgeting process. We highlighted exceptions which the CEO asked the team members to correct. The CEO was able to use budgeting as a strategic organizational competence and reorient senior management. If you would like us to help you in your budgeting process, just call us.

Monte Carlo Simulation

Case Study
The client, a celebrity chef, was negotiating a multi-million dollar contract with a large hotel. He needed help in proposing new terms with them and understanding how those terms affect his payouts.

Solution
Perceptive Analytics first understood clearly the client's needs. We learnt the relationship with the hotel because negotiation is in good part, about relationships. After understanding the client’s options, we put together terms that we feel the client could use. We then created a model with what-if analysis capability that shows payouts for various terms. We simulated using Monte-Carlo technique and this resulted in showing possible outcomes and most likely outcomes. Using this model the client was prepared and could negotiate better because he understood tradeoffs clearly. To create a similar project, just contact us.

Credit Line Analysis

Case Study
The CFO of a medium sized electronics company based in Chicago wanted us to put together a model that will help him predict the credit line needs for the next year.

Solution
We collected revenue projections, key cost and cash position drivers. The Financial model puts together all the assumptions and computes cash flow. It predicts the maximum credit line that the company could go in for. Using this model, the company could negotiate better with the banker. If you would like something like this to be created, contact us.