Over the past twenty years, our clients have increasingly required financial analyses that provide live interactive vision and decision support.

Fiscal Vision is what we provide to all of our clients through the use of our unique, proprietary interactive process and our proprietary decision support tool FAMS-XL©.

Decision Support is a phrase that is often heard these days, but what does it mean... We have redefined it through the success of our process which provides our clients with "clear vision with regard to viable alternatives and the consequences of each of those alternatives".

Our "Live Interactive Process" provides our clients with a forum conducive to maximum efficiency and effectiveness. Stakeholders are given an opportunity to provide real time input to the process in our live interactive sessions, giving an assurance that the input is complete and all viewpoints have been considered. Our process naturally builds consensus as it marshals all participants toward the most effective alternative and resultant decision.

FAMS-XL© is our proprietary "Financial Analysis & Management System"

A Powerful Tool for today's Utility Manager, Finance / Budget Director and general financial staff. FAMS-XL© is a powerful live interactive tool that simulates the financial dynamics of a utility or general government area over a multi-year planning period, and calculates for our clients numerous viable financial alternatives, provides the consequences of each alternative and has the power and flexibility to test many key variables and assumptions along the way.

The Magic of FAMS-XL© is in its flexibility and its ability to be customized to reflect the specific financial dynamics of your utility or general government area. It was designed to provide utility managers, budgeting and financial staff with a powerful, gracefully complex tool with which to open the "black box" to rate making and illustrate budgeting constraints along with impacts of 'choices' on governmental levels of service. FAMS-XL© accomplishes this goal brilliantly. It also provides a uniquely understandable window into the rate making and financial management process for not only elected officials, but special committees, advisory boards and the general public as well.

Choices and Consequences
Our live interactive process clearly identifies the viable capital and financial planning choices available to you and demonstrates the financial consequences of those choices.

Utility & Government Projects for which we use FAMS-XL© include:

• RATE STUDIES
• REVENUE SUFFICIENCY ANALYSES
• CAPITAL PLANNING & FUNDING ANALYSES
• FINANCIAL FORECASTS IN SUPPORT OF BOND ISSUES
• RATE STRUCTURE REVIEW AND DESIGN
• COST OF SERVICE ANALYSES
• IMPACT FEE / CAPITAL CHARGES STUDIES
• SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS & FEE STUDIES
• FINANCIAL FEASIBILITY STUDIES
• FISCAL IMPACT ANALYSES