Predict the Best Path to Profitability
Detailed financial modeling with consistent reporting for the whole team
Why Choose Arcast?
The Arcast® software helps finance team members collaborate on financial analyses and forecasting, ensuring consistent calculations and streamlined reporting along the way.
Zoom in to the details of a project. Get a bird’s eye view of the consolidated portfolio. Analyze the economic impact of all possible options in a decision tree. Make informed choices that maximize total value.
Features & Benefits
Always Compare Apples to Apples
Calculations are consistent over time and between projects and users, which means that colleagues can make head-to-head comparisons of different projects or instances of the same project at different times.
After calculation, all results are presented in standardized reports for quick recognition and easy comparison of analysis types.
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- File versioning
- Sharing of:
- Economic assumptions
- Owner share data
- Tax regime calculation files
- Report templates
- Configuration files
- Predefined standard reports:
- Summary
- Cash flow
- Profiles
- Plot
- Custom, user-defined report templates
- Results shown in real or nominal values
- Values shown in any units or currency
- Exportable results across the board
- Projects and profiles can be tagged with metadata for advanced grouping, filtering, and analysis
Free Up Time for Decision-Making
The Arcast software is prepackaged with a wide array of calculation routines for studying specific aspects of projects and portfolios. All calculations are performed with the same set of shared files. Units and currencies are automatically converted upon calculation.
Instead of debugging calculations or figuring out differences between calculations, users can focus on analyzing and reporting on the results to inform business decisions.
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- Cash flow and various KPI calculations, including:
- Net present value (NPV)
- Internal rate of return (IRR)
- Capital efficiency index (CEI)
- Risk reward (RR)
- Calculation of per-barrel results for oil & gas industry projects
- Break-even price calculation
- Goal-seek analysis
- Automatic calculation of project cutoff
- Abandonment costs moved relative to cutoff
- Calculations based on owner shares or 100% project values
- Sensitivity analysis
- Automatic conversion of input units or currencies to calculation and report units and currencies
Ensure Consistent Tax Calculations Automatically
All tax regimes are modeled as separate Microsoft Excel® workbooks, which are then loaded into the Arcast® software, populated with data from the analysis, and executed. Tax calculations are fully transparent, as users can review the populated tax files.
If a tax regime undergoes changes, only the corresponding tax file needs to be updated. The file may then be automatically shared with all users. Thanks to the consistent tax calculations, it is also possible to perform tax consolidation of all projects belonging to the same tax regime.
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- Built-in support for multiple tax regimes
- New tax regimes can be added by users
- Tax consolidation of projects in the same tax regime
- Tax calculations for different tax position situations
- Support for ringfence calculations of projects
- Full report of after-tax results as cash flow and KPIs
Get a Top-Level View of Aggregated Results
Consistent calculations across projects make it possible to aggregate the results on a portfolio level, including full tax consolidation per tax regime, or several if applicable. Results are shown as total portfolio values but may also be broken down on each entity.
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- Aggregated cash flow, revenue, costs, and investments of all projects
- Tax consolidation of projects belonging to the same tax regime
- Portfolio dashboard with:
- Portfolio summary of key results (NPV, IRR)
- Rank of the projects by individual values
- Options to exclude or include projects and investigate their impact on the portfolio
- Detailed portfolio profile report with:
- All individual project profiles and results
- Functionality to group, filter, and sort results by category
- Direct export of data to new or existing Excel® workbooks
Model Complex Economic Scenarios
Decision tree modeling facilitates scenario planning by structuring all the potential options and financial outcomes along branches. Entire projects — including production, cost, and investment data — can be added to each end node in the tree. When calculating, full consolidation is performed along every branch.
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- Interactive modeling through drag-and-drop of decision, probability, and end nodes
- Complete Arcast project data associated with an end node
- Annotation using text, lines, arrows, and images
- Calculation of the optimal path of the decisions that will give the highest NPV
- Information boxes on tree nodes to show node values
- Root results of decision tree structured identically to results from a single project or portfolio
- Decision trees added to a portfolio in the same way as single projects
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