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Complete Business Case Toolkit

• The Business Case Guide
• Financial Modeling Pro
• Business Case Templates 2007 ed. for MS Office
• Financial Metrics Pro
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For Business Case Owners who need to support a proposed project, program, product, capital acquisition, or major action and have little or no prior experience in building business case solutions, have little or no background in finance and only very basic skills with spreadsheet modeling the Business Case Toolkit is a tutorial constituted from carefully selected manuals, templates and working examples.

The Complete Business Case Toolkit is designed to walk you through all the stages of the business case project providing easy to understand instruction manuals, spreadsheet templates, working examples that cover more than 100 financial metrics. It also includes a unique guidebook-in-a-spreadsheet for building the financial model to "make" your case.

In contrast with the previous edition this new all-inclusive Business Case Toolkit presents the material in more concise yet clear and easy to understand manner. The new edition of the Toolkit provides more examples of financial modeling systems that you can easily adapt to fit a wide range of your own business case situations.

Also in this edition of the Business Case Toolkit we included FinancialBusiness Case Templates 2007 package that you will use to shorten your work on setting up financial reports and financial model from weeks and days to a few hours. Just select a document report template (MS Word) and a financial model template (MS Excel) for your case. Then, modify them to fit your own situation. When the case is completed, choose and modify a PowerPoint template to make your final presentation.

Begin building your own Business Case Solutions as you move through the Business Case Toolkit material. Work in a "live" spreadsheet environment. Download the Business Case Toolkit and build your own Business Case Solution by trying and modifying our examples as you read about them.

Available for download for US$180.00

Content of the Toolkit package:

The Business Case Guide, 2nd ed.
by Marty J. Schmidt
ISBN 1-929500-01-7
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The Business Case Guide is a step-by-step instruction manual for building the business case. With 254 pages of clear, practical advice, examples, and a sample case, the Guide is ideal for those with no prior background in business planning or finance. The Guide is also available separately as an eBook (PDF), downloaded from the internet, and in a printed edition.

Since the first edition appeared in 1999, the Guide has become recognized as the authoritative, standard source for those who build the business case.

Financial Metrics Pro™
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A comprehensive set of easy to understand, easy to use spreadsheet templates and working examples covering more than 100 financial metrics.

Cash flow metrics: Business case cash flow statements with working examples of NPV, IRR, CAGR, ROI, breakeven, and and many more.
Financial statement ratios and metrics: A complete set of interrelated financial statements, multi year comparisons, 6 categories of metrics and ratios, and a working Du Pont system.

Financial Metrics Pro defines each financial metric, illustrates the best approaches for spreadsheet implementation and graphing, and summarizes the metric's strengths and weaknesses. Modify, copy, and use in your own spreadsheet models.

Financial Modeling Pro™
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A unique guidebook-in-a spreadsheet, providing an easy to use, step-by-step tutorial for building the financial model to "make" your case. By working in a live spreadsheet, you can try out and modify examples as you read about them.

Financial Modeling Pro assumes no prior background in finance and only very basic MS Excel Skills. The package includes a complete working dynamic modeling system, representing many typical business case situations, and 60-page text in PDF format.

Business Case Templates 2007 Package
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Everyone who builds a serious financial case soon learns that setting up the report and the financial model can be tedious, time consuming tasks. That work can be shortened from days or weeks to a few hours, however, with good template examples. The templates package includes

Business case report templates (MS Word)
Business case financial models (MS Excel)
Business case presentations (MS PowerPoint)

Begin by choosing a document report template (MS Word) and a financial model template (MS Excel) for your case. Then, modify them to fit your own situation. When the case is completed, choose and modify a PowerPoint template to make your final presentation.

Download the Toolkit today for US$180.00

Readers' comments

"The Business Case Guide is the most comprehensive and practical document I have come across on how to develop a business case... An invaluable how-to guide."
Pat Dugan, Consulting Principal, Xerox

"This book can serve as a corporate guide with little to no tailoring... Thorough and logically sequenced. It remains focused on business case development and presentation as a process, which makes it all the more valuable to organizations seeking to implement a standardized and repeatable business case development methodology."
Mike Terrani, Deltona, FL

Readers rate the Guide 5 stars

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