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Overview of Invest Sign v3.78

The Need of Investment and Project analytics

You make decisions every day. Where to invest, what products to produce, which suppliers to have, what prices of products to charge. You probably base your decisions on whatever data you have on hand - historical costs, competitors' prices, each time try to make your own financial models. But how often do you have full, complete information and good tools to work efficiently? How many ideas you have refused because reasoning needs a lot of time and is costly? It's easy to make the wrong decision if you don't take all possible scenarios into account or lost opportunities because you don't have enough time to prepare a new financial model. Making the best decisions means creating detailed financial model of your idea, performing financial and risk analysis. And there's no easier, more powerful solution to do this than Invest Sign!

Have you ever seen financial spreadsheets representing multimillion projects containing only best case, worst case, and most likely scenarios? Or, have you worked in situations where marketing, R&D, engineering, and other specialists offered the new way or two and more ways to increase the competition of enterprise but financial reports already have been made and is costly to review them? The fact is that many companies make decisions without taking more than three different possible outcomes into account as they don't have opportunities to make them. In reality, market is almost always changing and you need quickly to adapt these conditions, and be ready quickly to make scenarios that could affect an organisation's bottom line.

Speed up Investment decision process

Invest Sign changes all that. Using Invest Sign you can easy make a budget of the enterprise or a project, you are working with. Without a lot of costs and time you can make various scenarios, compare them and choose the effective one, which the most increases the Value of Enterprise.

What this means for you -- the decision maker -- is that you finally have, if not perfect, the most complete tool possible. You quickly can see what could happen, how likely it is to happen, and therefore be able to judge accordingly which risks to take and which ones to avoid. While no software package can predict the future, Invest Sign can enable you to work efficiently and choose the best personal strategy based on the available information.

FEATURES With Invest Sign you will describe any type of your project! Tied project budgets into the organisational strategy More accurate and effective financial modeling and analytics Managing multiple budget types of projects and enterprise Project valuation methods (NPV, IRR, MIRR, PI, PB, DPB, ARR) Financial ratio analysis, financial accounts and data tables analysis Sensitivity, Scenario and Stress analysis, Monte Carlo simulation Full Data Financial reports and Risk analysis result reports

Managing Multiple Project types

Invest Sign allows quickly describe costs, income, funds of sources and focus on project. The program manages multiple types of project including time and materials, fixed price and cost plus projects. Invest Sign structure allows handily adjust any type of your business or investment project. You might have a new idea, want to expand existing business to new areas of market or want to motivate strategic objectives and need financial substantiation. Or, you may have proposal and need to make decision how good it is. Whatever your situation, Invest Sign can help!

Easy adjust Invest Sign to your Project requirements
You can flexible adjust Invest Sign to country tax policy as VAT, national insurance contribution, profit tax, real estate tax and insurance and other tax policy, and market variables.

Describe Investment of project
Invest Sign allows ably to describe the investment you are going to make. The investment costs in Invest Sign are divided into two groups - cardinal investment costs (related with long term asset as equipment, buildings, territory and others) and prior-manufacturing costs (other costs, related with prior-investment research, preparative research and experimentation; project realization costs as organizing supply, marketing, selection of personal, seeking for partners, managing project realization and others).

Describe Operational plan
Describe operational activity and focus on main project areas, having the biggest influence on project success.

      Production costs Describe production costs in detailed as direct material costs, direct labour costs, overheads, administrative expenses, define and calculate amortization. Get all needed financial summary tables to analyse with costs related data.

      Revenues and other Income Forecast income from sales or other revenue and benefits you can get as results of your project activity. You have possibility to describe income for each product (or group of products) and services.

      Need of working capital After you described production costs you have the amount of needed working capital. The working capital is used as Investment costs and the need for every year you will get when you enter turnover minimum (in days) for sections as Accounts receivable, detailed Inventory, Cash in account, Payable accounts and others.

Choose and optimize needed financial funds
Describe financial funds which you have (planning to have) for your project. Enter data of financial funds you can get as share capital (increase in share capital), commercial or other credits, subsidies, leasing. If you need commercial credits then schedule their payback and interests. Choose various types and combinations of financial funds and select the best one which the most increases the project value.

Make Your Data Work for You!

Say you are building your project financial model and you know what costs have historically been for your product's materials, you can forecast sales and have all needed financial means. Invest Sign lets you use that data accurately and evaluate your project from three main viewpoints:

View all needed data which supports methods of Investment appraisal and ratio analysis

       Project Valuation of Efficiency Investment appraisal is one of the main parts which is very important accepting or rejecting a project. These methods are frequently used. They are four major methods (Net present value or NPV, Internal rate of return or IRR, Payback period or PB, Profitability index or PI) and advanced methods (Modified Internal Rate of Return or MIRR, Discounted Payback period or DPB, Accounting rate of return or ARR).

      Financial abilities to realize Project Calculating financial ratios and then comparing them against each other or comparable industry averages for the same time period will provide an insight into the project's (or business) financial condition and operational performance. In Invest Sign, financial ratios are categorized for detailed analysis into these sections:

        Liquidity ratios A complete liquidity ratio analysis can help uncover weaknesses in the financial position of business.

        Activity ratios These ratios measure management's effectiveness at using its assets.

        Gearing ratios Shows capabilities to cover the liabilities and have opportunity to work efficient in a long time period.

        Profitability ratios Measure the ability to generate a return on its resources.

      The Risk analysis of Project Risk Analysis, in a broad sense, is any method — qualitative and/or quantitative — for assessing the impacts of risk on decisions. Methods of Risk Analysis are used that blend both qualitative and quantitative techniques. It is Sensitivity, Scenario and Stress Analysis, Monte Carlo Sampling.

Perform advanced Financial analytics

Using Invest Sign you can perform advanced financial and economic analysis, and export financial tables and other summarized data to your reports to support your decision. Invest Sign is structured to give opportunity to execute these types of analysis:

Easy have all needed Financial Reports to present results

      Economic analysis of alternatives With Invest Sign you can easy check various alternatives, view results as evaluation methods (NPV, IRR, PB and others), financial ratios, and choose the best one which the most increases the project (or enterprise) value.

      Financial accounts and other summarized data tables analysis Invest Sign gives opportunity to analyse all three general financial accounts: Profit and Loss, Cash flow, Balance sheets. There is additional sheet sometimes needed for different cash flow analysis of the project - Cash flow sheet (2). These sheets are supported with different summary data tables with makes financial accounts analysis more complex and blanket.

      Optimization of working capital and alternatives execution of financial funds With Invest Sign you can easily estimate and optimize the need of working capital both for base variant of your project and for alternatives. You can choose various types of financial funds for project, for example: have only your sources or obtain some equipment with leasing and take some commercial loans, and choose the best one which the most increases project value.

Present Results with Financial reports

Invest Sign provides a wide range of graphing options and financial summary tables for interpreting and presenting your results to others. You can easy export main financial reports and other tables to MS Word and Excel program to represent results of your project and support the decision. Easy save all needed data using expanded Export data... window in any of your selected language. Get a powerful presentation of results.

Create histograms and cumulative curves - all without touching your keyboard! Invest Sign menus and handy toolbars make navigation a snap. Work with a program with your preferred way. All graphs may be copied to the Windows clipboard just making one click.

Invest Sign also gives you a full statistical report on Monte Carlo simulations, as well as access to all the data generated. Plus, you can generate a one-page, pre-formatted, ready-to-save Quick Report with a single mouse click. Quick Reports include cumulative graphs, histograms, summary statistics and all generated data you are working with.

Specify any key variable to vary, and see the change on Project results

Identify the Factors That Cause Risk

Invest Sign allows you to use Sensitivity and Scenario Analyses to determine the critical factors in your financial model. Use Sensitivity Analysis to identify the uncertain factors in your project according to the impact they have on your results. See the results clearly with easy-to-interpret tables!

Scenario Analysis identifies which scenarios - or combinations of key factors - lead to particular outcomes. Find out which situations to strive for or avoid. For example, you may need to know what your production costs, investment costs as net working capital, and price points all are when profits are highest.

Performing Stress analysis and specifying extreme ranges of key factors, you can see how different extreme situations would affect your project results.

These analyses let you gain insight into your situation that your competition won't have, and learn how to increase profits and avoid losses!

Have full advantages of using Risk analysis

So, say you have described your project, choused the best economic alternative of realization, estimated the need of working capital, choused and optimized financial funds which the most increases the project value. Using sensitivity analysis identified the critic key variables and know what instruments to take to control them. Using scenario and stress analysis you made the most common, the best and the worst scenarios, made critic scenarios and have instruments to avoid to them. The only thing you need is to know how likely all possible outcomes to occur within your expectation. You need to answer questions such as "What are the chances of this project finishing under budget?" or "What is the probability of profit exceeding your desired sum of money (for example €500,000)?"

Get all needed data and statistics in Monte Carlo analysis

Invest Sign gives abilities to perform the last stage Risk analysis and lets you see all possible outcomes in your situation - and tells you how likely they are to occur! Invest Sign uses a technique known as Monte Carlo simulation to show you all possible outcomes. Running a Monte Carlo analysis with Invest Sign involves five simple steps:

1. Identify Uncertain Variables
Determine which key variables in your project are uncertain and choose them in Monte Carlo analysis panel. These key variables you may have identified in Sensitivity and Scenario analysis.

2. Define probability distributions
Represent those variables with Invest Sign probability distributions selecting them with clever fitted combos and estimate ranges of values.

3. See the possibility for correlation conditions
You have to look for the correlations among any of the selected risk variables. If correlations exists you have to diminish these correlations and (or) limit their expected dependency characteristics.

4. Run simulation
Run your simulation to determine the range and probabilities of all possible outcomes for the variables you've identified. The simulation run in Invest Sign is very simple. You have to push button "Calculate" and simulation runs. When Invest Sign performs calculations then in the bottom of the window reference come: “! Monte Carlo analysis: calculations are made.”

5. Analyse results and make a decision
Results, graphs, common statistics and generated values and for each variable (variables and NPV) you can look by pushing button “Results” of selected variable or project results. Invest Sign allows to make analysis in two ways:

     Data and statistics analysis for each variable (needed to ensure that selected model and distributions are correct);

     Data and statistics analysis of project results (the purpose is to calculate coefficients and support decisions).

The power of Monte Carlo simulation lies in the distributions of possible outcomes it creates. Simply by running a simulation, Invest Sign takes your financial model from representing just one possible outcome to representing thousands of possible outcomes. By using Invest Sign, the information you can get from your project financial model becomes tremendously more accurate, and infinitely more valuable. Using Invest Sign, you will get all needed data to answer questions like, "What is the probability of profit exceeding $800,000?" or "What are the chances of losing money on this investment?"

Manage your Project Efficiently

Using Invest Sign you can efficiently manage the project during it's lifetime. Program allows easy to review forecasted data and correct with real product's materials, sales, prices and other important input data. You can always compare the forecasted outcomes and results of evaluation methods with real ones of your project activity. So, you get the most important benefit using Invest Sign during project lifetime, ability to control and manage effective the project team activity.

You can see that some prediction was too optimistic, might view new opportunities to expand some areas of project activity or maybe have got attractive offer in new area and don't know how does it effect the finally project results. Use Invest Sign, easy calculate and expand your project financial model, calculate needed additional financial funds and increase the project value. The market is almost always changing and it's up to you, how you are going to use the opportunities and avoid failures.

Loosing Opportunities is Costly; Invest Sign is Not!

We have seen how not taking risk or having no opportunity to perform detailed analysis into account can bring down even the mightiest enterprise giants. Considering the impact of the decisions you make every day, you can't afford not to perform risk and financial analytics. Invest Sign puts risk and financial analysis within reach of almost any budget. Just one smart decision made using insight gained from Invest Sign will pay for the cost of the software many times over. So join the growing list of clever companies who have made Invest Sign a key part of their decision-making processes! Order today!

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Software recommendations

Processor: Pentium III-class PC (500 MHz or higher recommended).

RAM: 128 MB of RAM (256 MB preferred).

Hard Disk: 100 MB disk space required (including projects).

Display: Designed for XGA resolution at 1024 x 768 or higher.

Operating System: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 6 installed, Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003.

Privileges: Administrative privileges on the system.

Technical support: Available through maintenance plan.

Free technical support: Available through Support main page.

Training: Available through InvestSign's Software Training Courses.