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Cuffs Planning & Models, Ltd. provides financial modeling consulting services for
corporations, and software for use in business school MBA programs.
CUFFS-88 in the Classroom
- CUFFS-88 financial modeling software is
available for use at very low cost in MBA programs. In using this software, students
will enhance their computer skills while learning to think far more clearly about
financial relationships.
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Key Benefits
 | Built-in accounting attributes of income, expense, equity,
contra-asset, ... makes student models easy to read and evaluate, while removing the
tedium involved in cross-period totals and currency translations. This reinforces the
practical understanding of the distinctions between LEVEL and FLOW, DEBIT, and CREDIT. |
| What-if analyses are easy to generate and compare. This enables
students to creatively explore different approaches to problems. |
| Mix of Procedural and Non-Procedural methods enables students to think
about relationships between Accounts (Assets, Liabilities, Equity), and to write their own
procedures for step-by-step computations, all in the same model. |
| Powerful model-solver means that models can contain goal-seeking equations as these:
Financing Gap = Such That
Assets = Liabilities + Equity
Loan Originations = Such That Net Loans
Outstanding = Budgeted Loans |
CUFFS-88 in the Boardroom
- CUFFS-88 has a wide variety of uses in
corporate finance.
Key Benefits
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| For the Controller |
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| Consolidations and overhead allocations, for multiple levels of
subsidiaries, divisions, plants, etc. User-generated account structures allows
consolidation of even unlike business entities. Automatic
handling of differing fiscal years. Automatic currency translation against projected
foreign exchange rates. Special features simplify elimination of interdivisional sales,
costs, and profits. The date-oriented database both simplifies and helps foolproof data
entry when rolling-forward for Budget vs. Actual interim reports. Other unique facilities
make it simple to produce values and reports via either GAAP or Statutory rules, from a single
model. |
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| For the Treasurer |
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| To properly evaluate Wall Street's complex new investments. To do
sensitivity and Monte-Carlo performance testing, under various yield curves, of debt
portfolios, pension plans, immunization studies, new-style "synthetic,
risk-free" debt instruments, etc., and their impact on the bottom line and cash
flows. |
| For the Financial VP |
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| Create more realism in corporate plans ("models") that can
handle tax-loss carryforwards and carrybacks, can reflect planned acquisitions and
divestments, and can even self-adjust its computation methods to forecasted changes in tax
regulations. Improve the capital budgeting process. |
| For the Banker and Investment Banker |
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| Asset/liability management. Invent new financial instruments. Help
construct a debt structure that realistically provides for repayment. |
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