Arcast® financial planning & analysis software
One platform for managing projects and all relevant financial data streams
Details shape the bigger picture
In the Arcast FP&A software, investment projects, assets, and any other cases that require valuation are represented as projects.
Each valuation combines project-specific inputs — such as production profiles, investments, revenues, and operating costs — with shared economic assumptions like product prices, currencies, inflation, and ownership shares. Multiple projects can be combined into a consolidated portfolio, which may also include decision trees for more advanced decision analysis and forecasting.
As assumptions and data evolve, Arcast ensures consistent and comparable calculations over time and across teams of users working in parallel.
Single source of truth
Project data, economic assumptions, ownership shares, and tax calculations are separated into distinct files. The calculation engine reads these files to produce standardized results and cash flow outputs. This structure lets users share inputs and ensures that all calculations use the same underlying assumptions.
Streamlined reporting
Results are presented as tables and charts, and report on key performance indicators such as NPV, IRR, and break even price. All calculation inputs and cash flows before and after tax are displayed in the detailed profiles report. Users can also create custom reports tailored to specific analytical needs. All results can be exported to spreadsheets for further analysis.
Open and flexible modeling
Project definitions, economic assumptions, and tax files use editable formats so that organizations can adjust the model to match in-house requirements and terminology.
Introducing financial modeling with Arcast
The Arcast software organizes financial analyses by modeling entity. The core modeling entity is the project. More complex decisions can be modeled with decision trees, where decisions and alternatives appear as nodes and branches. Projects, decision trees, and subportfolios can be grouped in a portfolio to calculate consolidated results.
Projects
In Arcast, a project represents a development initiative, asset, or scenario to be valuated. Large datasets can be split into multiple projects to facilitate analyzing their individual contributions.
When setting up a project, users can input values of monthly, annual, or mixed time steps. Arcast calculates NPV and cash flows before and after tax based on user-defined tax regimes.
Portfolios
The portfolio view is helpful for analyzing how projects perform collectively. Portfolios may represent subprojects, business units, or an entire organizational asset base. Projects, subportfolios, and decision trees can all be combined and use shared economic assumptions.
Portfolio calculations generate standard KPI and cash flow reports as well as:
- Rank reports with sortable results by NPV, IRR, production, costs, investments, etc.
- Profile reports with project-level results that can be grouped, sorted, and filtered.
Decision trees
More complex decision structures can be modeled with decision trees. Visual modeling helps clarify decision scenarios involving multiple dependent or exclusive choices, each potentially with probabilistic outcomes.
The Arcast software evaluates all possible outcomes, consolidates each branch’s data, applies probabilities, and selects the highest NPV option at each decision node. The root displays expected values for production, costs, investments, and cash flow in the same structure as projects and portfolios.
Next steps
Continue exploring on your own or get in touch with us directly.
