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| Combined with CaseWare Working Papers, Scenarios is an interactive analysis tool that lets you easily explore "what if" and "goal seeking" scenarios, providing your clients with new perspectives and a deeper understanding of how key drivers affect their business. |
Overview
Find new ways to drive financial results
Scenarios lets you create complex, interdependent scenarios where many factors are affected at the same time, letting you clearly see the financial implication of continuing current trends, or changes to key business drivers.Enjoy a whole new way of looking at things
Scenarios is the first business tool that displays balance sheet, income statement, cash flow, business drivers and analytics on a single screen. When you change a key driver, you'll see the implications immediately without ever having to leave the page!Project and plan for the future
With CaseWare Scenarios, your clients can project years into the future to discover the affects of changes in the business environment, such as fluctuations in sales, interest rates or taxation.Easily break up elements
Details allows users to break each element into multiple sub-elements, providing a more detailed, more complete, and more industry-specific picture of financial performance.Start creating scenarios immediately
Seamlessly integrated with Working Papers, Scenarios gives you immediate access to the client data without having to import or input additional information.Features
| Below are the features for Scenarios. To view all enhancements, press the Open All button on the right hand side. Or press the heading to see enhancements for that subject. | Open All Close All |
- Seamless Working Papers Integration
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CaseWare Scenarios is easily integrated into any existing Working Papers engagement giving you immediate access to the client data without having to import or input additional information. Most users will simply need to import Scenarios as a document library and the full functionality of Scenarios will be instantly available.
- Quick Scenario Creation
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With CaseWare Scenarios, you can select your desired Entity (with consolidated files) and Accounting Period. You can change the entity and period of time to display the relevant data. Scenarios are generated based on actual historical data or on previously developed scenarios.
Information can be combined across scenarios allowing you to forecast the implications of a single or multiple business decisions, implementing best practices, etc.
- Powerful Split-Screen Interface
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Split screen views clearly display the relationships between all business drivers and financial results while doing "what if" analysis.
- Easy Data Linking
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From the Scenarios toolbar, you can link to the full Trial Balance and the Assign Mapping dialog in Working Papers.
The Flow Chart button displays a dialog that enables you to review a flow chart for any analytics you select. The flow chart view clearly shows the specific variables that affect each ratio; how they affect it; and the cascading effects of manually changing the variables.
- Goal Seeking
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With Scenarios Solver users may set goals for various analytical indicators then adjust driver values needed to reach these goals. Essentially you are working backwards from a result using different mixes of driver values.
- Benchmarking Access
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Scenarios seamlessly integrates with CaseWare Benchmarking allowing clients to view and compare their financial performance relative to that of their peers.
- Analytics and Drivers
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CaseWare Scenarios provides you with a multitude of performance measures to determine goals and scenarios:
- Current Ratio
- Working Cap %
- Quick Ratio
- Cash Flow
- Gross Profit Margin
- EBIT Margin
- Profitability %
- EPS
- Debt Ratio
- Owners Equity
- Times Interest Earned
- Debt
- Asset Turnover
- Break-Even
- Revenue/Employee*
- Revenue/Area*
- Revenue/Customer*
- P/E Valuation*
*=items are non-financial measures
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