Real-time, intelligent utility financial modeling
Intelligent & easy-to-use interface beyond an Excel Rate Model
24/7 access by multiple users on various devices with version control
Unlimited scenario development and sharing capabilities
Efficient data updating that boosts your productivity
FAMS is a subscription-based online financial planning tool designed for government entities. Our 300 years of combined experience on over 1,500 studies is the force behind our industry-leading tools for financial forecasting and sustainability solutions.
With FAMS, you have 24/7 access to this financial modeling power in an easy-to-use web-based interface that allows ultimate flexibility and control in performing multiple high-level sensitivity analyses and scenario management activities.
Your financial data at your fingertips, anytime, anywhere
Click on each graph’s or chart’s key data points to immediately understand the specific factors driving the results you see for each scenario.
Deeper Dive
Beyond your traditional Excel Rate Model
FAMS is a more intelligent and easy-to-use interface.
Features include:
Create, compare and share multiple scenarios side by side in real time.
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Scenario Management
Data Automation
Align data import and export formats to match your system requirements and improve efficiency
Sensitivity Analysis
Establish cases or ranges of key inputs or assumptions to stress test your scenarios.
Instant Access
On any device, simultaneously with others at your organization.
Data Validation
Web-based interface eliminates improper inputs and errors to source code.
Version Control
Allows for scenario sharing between multiple users; alerts you about data updates.
Easy to Use
Optimize decision making with quick toggling between defined inputs, assumptions and scenarios.
Customizable
So that each user can create custom key performance indicator dashboards, adjust the forecast period, and even manipulate their viewing mode”
Intelligent Interface
Responsive design displays content to the size of your device; click-expandable charts show deeper details.
You can store saved inputs to define new options with simple button clicks to quickly adjust key variables, including inherent growth assumptions, capital spending assumptions, operating spending, reserves, and rate adjustment plans.
Defining Your Options
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In real time, you can compare the results of multiple scenarios side by side relative to your key performance indicators (KPIs) and adjust FAMS to focus on the issues and the periods of time that are most relevant to your community planning.
Quick Comparisons
You can run FAMS during a staff or public meeting while discussing specific capital projects to develop real time “what-ifs” to see the impacts of any potential changes and evaluate your options to manage these changes.
Capital What-Ifs
FAMS allows you to track several key performance indicators (KPIs) on your customizable dashboard to give you real-time line of sight of the indicators that are most relevant to your utility enterprise or government service.
Customized KPIs
FAMS is designed to integrate with your existing financial reporting systems. You can export any of the detailed information that automatically syncs with the active scenario. Data uploaded within the tool can be imported using your internal system’s preferred format.
Data At Your Fingertips
FAMS is embedded with various support tools and resources. You can scroll through tips for first-time users, access a customized user manual, directly e-mail support, and set up alerts to notify you of key information or other system updates.
Support When You Need It
FAMS tracks and compares your scenarios in an easy side-by-side comparison page. For each custom scenario, you have a summary view of the various assumptions, inputs, and rate adjustment plans for each option.
Comparing Your Options
FAMS allows you to input key data and assumptions to quickly develop and evaluate new scenarios. You can store these inputs and scenarios for ease of future use to facilitate more fluid meetings and efficient discussions around your key issues and decision alternatives.
Robust Scenario Management
FAMS is a dynamic financial forecasting system designed to give real-time answers to tough questions based on your most current data and conditions, including sustainability of the “status quo,” identifying revenue targets to satisfy projected costs for a defined level of service, determining required revenue streams to support operational and capital spending budgets, and communicating impacts to the level of service provided.
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