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Energy Planning & Analytics Software: IMPACT

Integrated Financial Forecasting and Reporting System

IMPACT provides energy companies with the ability to fully prepare and consolidate their budgets, financial forecasts, strategic plans, cash forecasts, and regulatory plans.

IMPACT is an integrated financial forecasting solution developed specifically for the energy industry. It offers powerful analysis designed to ensure the integrity of the financial planning process, and increase the productivity of financial planners.

Developed and implemented by energy industry specialists, IMPACT provides energy companies with the ability to fully prepare and consolidate their budgets, financial forecasts, strategic plans, cash forecasts, and regulatory plans.

FORECASTING

Rolling Forecasts: IMPACT provides the ability to quickly create, update, compare, and roll forward multiple “what if” scenarios of a financial plan.

Driver-Based Forecasting: IMPACT’s flexibility allows for any driver or metric to be modeled, tracked, and compared across scenarios.

Strategic Planning: The merger and acquisition analysis, divestiture analysis, and restructuring capabilities allow users to conduct a complete evaluation of all possible investment and expansion options for the business.

Rate Analysis and Planning: IMPACT’s financial account structure enables end users to easily track rate base accounts versus other assets that may not be a part of the rate base. Utilities use IMPACT’s rate base analysis to determine cost of service and how to allocate to members/customers.

Regulatory Planning: IMPACT provides the foundation for regulatory analysis with an efficient way to capture costs and plan for rate cases with revenue requirement calculations, debt service coverage calculations, detailed cost-of-service studies, and links to operational data.

Analyzing Financing Alternatives: IMPACT’s unlimited scenario analysis and business logic addresses buy versus build decisions and cash flow/financing options. IMPACT’s automatic financing functionality can be structured to provide the best possible capitalization mix when considering financing and/or equity issuance decisions.

Capital Project Analysis: IMPACT has delivered accounts and logic for analyzing the lifetime value of projects. The model can forecast the affects of new capital expenditures, AFUDC rates, changing book and tax depreciation schedules, as well as model asset retirement and salvage.

Reporting: IMPACT’s comprehensive enterprise reporting is used by energy companies for all levels of reporting to multiple levels of users, including executives, rating agencies, investors, and creditors. IMPACT eliminates the need to keep separate reports in disparate systems, and can serve as a central location for both the generation and distribution of all key financial reporting activities.

DATA INTEGRATION

The IMPACT Data Integration system interfaces with external systems, spreadsheets, and IMPACT. The Data Integration system collects data from those systems, aggregates or manipulates the data according to user-specified rules and filters, and prepares it in a format that can easily be imported into IMPACT. The primary benefit of the Data Integration system is to simplify and expedite the process of obtaining data from various external systems and minimize the potential for errors common with the data-gathering process.

The IMPACT Data Integration system can integrate directly with external systems, such as:

• SAP, Oracle, and other GL and ERP systems
• Powerplant or other fixed-asset systems
• Any Oracle-based system
• Any Excel-based data source

Users of the IMPACT Data Integration System define rules and filters for the data that is obtained from the external systems and then run mappings that generate data in a similar format to the current import sheets. The IMPACT Data Integration System removes the manual process of entering data and makes the process of obtaining external data more efficient.

KEY BENEFITS

IMPACT provides one transparent view of all your financial planning activities - budgeting, forecasting, and reporting - while reducing inefficiencies and inaccurate information.

• Greatly improved corporate governance
• Accurate, timely information for improved decision making
• Increased communication and collaboration throughout the organization
• Strengthened credibility with executives, rating agencies, lenders, and regulatory commissions
• Deeper analysis (consider alternatives more quickly) for profitable decision-making. Improved enterprise-wide access and collaboration to create the financial plan while providing security and administrative controls to mitigate risks associated with a spreadsheet-based system.
• Real-time consolidation and calculations for the timeliest analysis, decision support, and reporting capabilities available