Leading Edge Financial Tools
Business Analytics - Online Analyzers
Europa Capital has the distribution rights for licensing analyzers and assessments. The online analyzers provide industry specific answers and feedback instantly. As a result, answers for an acquisition or merger can be quickly assimilated into a plan. Everyone will immediately know where the company stands, positive or negative. A negative score typically requires advisory services, implementation or planning before an acquisition or merger can be completed. The second method, an assessment, requires on-site accumulation of information and provides a more in-depth look at a company with scoring. Through the use of analyzers and assessments, opportunities for improvement can be detected.
Business Performance Analyzer
Based on industry provides a lost profit range that can be recaptured. Shows potential savings and cost reductions on both an annual and YTD basis in comparison to industry type. Because many companies are in more than one industry can customize with up to three industry categories.
Sales Trend Analyzer
Provides a weighted five year projection using seasonal trend, regression, exponential smoothing, combination. Based on goal, how well is the company doing? Where is the company really heading?
Indication of Market Value
This business list pricing model is not a valuation but a pricing based on the industry rules for a particular company. Each industry has rules for pricing a business value utilizing EBITDA, EBIT, and SDE along with income criteria. This analyzer determines a range of potential prices for the business dependent upon company performance in that industry.
Bankruptcy Prediction Analyzer
Highly accurate. Uses five statistical prediction models. Each with a degree of accuracy of 72% to 94% on a one to two year basis. The rationale behind this analyzer is that if each statistical probability model has a high degree of accuracy, that accuracy is going to be greatly enhanced when five such models are combined. The next step - turnaround planning.
Life Transition Analyzer
This analyzer shows whether the client really has enough resources to meet their goals for the future. That could be retirement, or making a lifetime dream reality. If this analyzer shows that there are not enough resources to meet the goal, planning is required through two transition strategy plans..
Productivity Analyzer
Analyzes productivity on a company wide or business unit basis. Determines best productivity strategy of increasing productivity and expanding sales while maintaining current personnel or increasing productivity and eliminating positions.
Constraint - Capacity Analyzer
Pinpoints conflicts between multiple capacity interactions. Is the culprit market or operationally driven? This analyzer can actually pinpoint the conflicts between multiple capacity interactions. Is the real culprit market based or does the problem lie within the company's operations.?
Accounting - Forensics Analyzer
Determines whether accounting issues are occurring. Answers the question, "Is a further investigation or advisory required?" This forensics software identifies potential financial problem areas along with probabilities for aggressive accounting. Finding the truth is imperative.
Breakeven Scenarios Analyzer
Compares the current breakeven reality adjusted by fixed and direct costs with a sales slider to gain a desired future reality. The decision then becomes which future reality to implement.
Assessments
Europa Capital assessments score a client company. For a company to be very appealing it needs to be growing with increasing profitability and shareholder value. These assessments are all industry specific. The presentation is usually done in the format of an interactive flipping book. Each assessment provides an executive summary including an overall score. Each book is extensive running over a couple hundred pages each involving intensive drill-down analytics, metrics, and KPIs. With supporting documents, the book can be upwards of four hundred pages. This drill-down to accurate numbers provides for a reduction of waste and problem costs. This better allows the client to understand the depth of problems along with the solutions.
Type of Assessments
1. Acquisition Assessment
2. Bankruptcy & Liquidation
3. Divestiture Assessment
4. M&A Assessment
5. Integration Assessment
6. Operations Assessment
7. Productivity Assessment
8. Sales & Marketing
9. Shareholder Value
10. Strategy of the Sale
11. Turnaround & Workouts
12. Transition - Life & Business