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The heart of every serious business case analysis is a financial model. This is where cost and benefit impacts are estimated, analyzed, and presented to management with recommendations for action. The case for choosing one action over another is "made" with the financial model, and without it, the business case all but disappears.

Nevertheless, the practical steps in model building are rarely taught or presented in clear, easy-to-follow form. Business case owners who need to support a proposed project, program, product, capital acquisition, or major action, may have little or no background in finance and only very basic skills with spreadsheet modeling. Yet they have to produce a business case with a professional quality financial model–in very few days or weeks.

You may be in this position, or you may have many years of business case experience and still need answers to questions like these:

* Where do I start building the financial model?
* What kinds of spreadsheet skills will I need? Can I get "up to speed" quickly?"
* Exactly how do I estimate cost and benefit cash flow under my proposal? How do I "make the case" for my proposal?
* How do I know my model will stand up in front of our CEO? Our CFO?
* How do I use the model to ask "What if?" and perform risk and sensitivity analysis?

For those facing such questions, Solution Matrix Ltd. has just announced our newest guidebook-in-a-spreadsheet solution, Financial Modeling Pro™. For a complete list of topics and examples, see the chapter summary below. Designed in the same tradition as the best-selling companion tool, Financial Metrics Pro, Financial Modeling Pro is

* A practical step-by step tutorial on building the dynamic model for your business case
* A handbook reference, illustrating simple and advanced cost/benefit estimation methods and best-in-class modeling techniques
* Working examples and templates to modify and copy into your own modeling system.

Begin building your own business case modeling system as soon as start using Financial Modeling Pro. Complete your own model as you move through the tool. Working in a "live" spreadsheet environment, you can try out examples as you read about them.

Examples and templates in Financial Modeling Pro, and the complete, working financial modeling system furnished with it, can be adapted to fit a wide range of business case situations. .

Financial Modeling Pro is delivered by internet download. The download package includes.:

1. The Financial Modeling Pro Excel workbook. 16 worksheets with tutorial text, illustrations, and working template examples.
2. A complete, working example modeling system. This Excel file can be adapted easily to represent many other business case situations.
3. A 74-page text in PDF format, including the complete text and screen shots from Financial Modeling Pro
4. A 15-page text in PDF format, including the complete text and screen shots from the Example model.
5. One-year free upgrade and maintenance insurance.