Developing strategic and operational plans, budgets and forecasts based on history, what is happening today and your understanding of the future is paramount to continued success. Moore Stephens Consulting provides financial and non-financial business planning models and consultancy to clients looking to gain a morescientific insight into the future than can be achieved through traditional forecasting approaches. We enable the client to focus on specific aspects of business and provide the critical competitive edge needed in today's global markets.

Traditional 'what-if?' business models are superseded by multi-dimensional 'living' models which simulate the future many thousands of times, producing statistical analysis of any area of uncertainty. Such analysis allows the user to select any given business measure and ask not only what its expected value is, but also the percentage likelihood of it exceeding any chosen value or lying in any selected range, along with identification of those areas of the business which contribute most uncertainty and risk to that measure's ultimate value.

The benefits include:

• greatly enhanced insight into the likely future of the business
• identification of the major areas of risk and impact, opportunities and efficiencies
• understanding of relationships between different business variables
• focusing of business monitoring where it is needed most
• models take and receive automatic feed from existing and external data sources
• use of business intelligence tools to browse the future, not just the past
• models based on optimal mix of past data and trends and subjective forecasting.