Goal-seeking and “What if”

Goal-seeking demonstrates the changes required to achieve the desired results. In financial statement analysis having a desired financial ratio value allows the software to investigate the level of changes necessary to reach the desired value.
"What if" shows activity driver sensitivities in a flowchart format.

eg Goalseek how the return on capital employed (ROCE) can be increased from 12.95% to 15%. Strategic Focus identifies promising strategies and shows them in order of effectiveness. In the above example the ROCE goal could be achieved by changes in any of the following strategic actions; Price increase, Cost of sales amount, volume of sales increase,changes to expenses, non-current assets, current assets, current liabilities and other income, accounts payable days, accounts receivable days, raw material days, WIP days and product days. However some strategies require larger shifts than others. The strategic actions can either be implemented individually or combinations can be used. A drop in cost of sales of 3.17% would achieve a ROCE of 15% as would a price increase of 1.99% If an individual change seems too radical you can enter a comfortable amount and get the software to determine the other possible compensatory actions.