SimpleFi Solutions offers the below pre-packaged solution to get you started with CapEx Planning. We offer both quick start programs and small-to-medium pre-packaged managed implementations. Reach out to [email protected] for more information.

Business Problem and Proposed Solution

• Manual (Excel based) reporting for CapEx Planning including:
  • Capital Project origination and approval
  • Cash projections
  • Depreciation calcs for forecasts and plans
  • Variance commentary
• Project version control confusion
• Hard to collect and explain variance commentary
• Inflexible and prone to error (broken links, broken formulas)
• Solve With: SimpleFi’s prepackaged solution for CapEx Planning
  • Eliminate overhead, Drive accountability and improve transparency

WORKING CAPITAL PLAN

• Set project drivers and assumptions
• Schedule cash outflows

PROJECT PLANNING

• Create new projects within the application
• Review and approve projects
• Forecast projected capital expenditures

CAPEX PLANNING; AUTOMATED CALCULATIONS INCLUDING DEPRECIATION

• Depreciation & Amortization
• Net Present Value
• Internal Rate of Return
• Cash Flow

ANALYTICS AND REPORTING

• Track investment spend across departments
• Generate P&L forecast based on project drivers

Solution Goals – CapEx Planning

• Streamline capture and analysis of proposed CapEx projects
• Perform analysis on cash needs and P&L impact of new projects
• Push the results of approved CapEx spending and related expenses to your current consolidated forecast and planning processes
• Provide print ready, drillable comparison reports for both executive reporting, cash availability insights, and business unit analytics
• Ability to drill to detail – i.e., asset class, asset, project
• Collect project commentary automatically
• Project Metrics (typical):
  • Reduce efforts by 60% to track, analyze, and forecast CapEx (Excel)
  • Instant insight into drivers of Capital Spend to ensure alignment with company strategy
• Industries: Mfg, Distribution, Wholesale, Retail, etc.

CapEx Planning accelerator includes the following assets

• Standard templates for your planning process including: project planning, asset / depreciation planning, working capital planning, and work flow management
• Packaged script calculations
  • Depreciation projections
  • Residual Book Value
  • Variance calculation
• Data Action to trigger calculation
• Reporting
  • CapEx by Asset Class
  • CapEx by Project
  • Variance Analysis
• Planning process flow
• Discounted Cash Flow