Machine-implementable-project finance analysis and negotiating tool, software and system

A financial simulation computer program product for creating a project preparation, negotiating, and testing environment using standard project finance tools, comprising:

• a computer usable medium having computer-readable program code embodied in a medium for generating financial statements, financial data, charts, graphs and reports using the standard project finance tools, the product having
• means for providing limited recourse including debt service reserve accounts, stand-by loans and risk-sharing with suppliers and off-takers,
• means for allowing automatically generated or manual entry of and editing of capital expenditure time series for multiple contracts in multiple capital expenditure categories;
• means for selecting a desired financing time horizon for each loan;
• means for setting for each loan a percentage of capital expenditure time series to be financed,
• means for automatically generating a loan disbursement time series, and
• means for generating a loan disbursement time series independent of changes in capital expenditure and exchange rates based upon earlier automatically generated loan disbursement time series, and
• means for automatically generating a loan disbursement time series to close part or all of a financing gap with a loan and the total loan amount drawn down from such a loan during the disbursement period limited by a total loan amount for that loan equal to the total maximum amount for principal plus the maximum amount for interest to be capitalized both as entered by the user, assigning a percentage of the financing gap to be closed by that loan and ensuring that the loans assigned to close a percentage of the financing gap do not finance more than one hundred percent of such a financing gap.

A financial simulation computer program product for creating a project preparation, negotiating, and testing environment using standard project finance tools, comprising:

• a computer usable medium having computer-readable program code embodied in a medium for generating financial statements, financial data, charts, graphs and reports using the standard project finance tools, the product having
• means for providing limited recourse including debt service reserve accounts, stand-by loans and risk-sharing with suppliers and off-takers,
• means for allowing automatically generated or manual entry of and editing of capital expenditure time series for multiple contracts in multiple capital expenditure categories;
• means for selecting a desired financing time horizon for each loan;
• means for setting for each loan a percentage of capital expenditure time series to be financed,
• means for automatically generating a loan disbursement time series, and
• means for generating a loan disbursement time series independent of changes in capital expenditure and exchange rates based upon earlier automatically generated loan disbursement time series, and
• means for selecting one of a coupon bond, zero coupon bond, revenue bond and specially customized bond to inject funds in a freely selectable project currency into the project company, allowing the user to inject such funds at face value, at a discount or at a premium and automatically calculating the carrying value of the bond and the net interest expense for each period over the lifetime of the bond.

A financial simulation computer program product for creating a project preparation, negotiating, and testing environment using standard project finance tools, comprising:

• a computer usable medium having computer-readable program code embodied in a medium for generating financial statements, financial data, charts, graphs and reports using the standard project finance tools, the product having
• means for providing limited recourse including debt service reserve accounts, stand-by loans and risk-sharing with suppliers and off-takers,
• means for allowing automatically generated or manual entry of and editing of capital expenditure time series for multiple contracts in multiple capital expenditure categories;
• means for selecting a desired financing time horizon for each loan;
• means for setting for each loan a percentage of capital expenditure time series to be financed,
• means for automatically generating a loan disbursement time series, and
• means for generating a loan disbursement time series independent of changes in capital expenditure and exchange rates based upon earlier automatically generated loan disbursement time series, and
• means for using cash from the cash account to close a financing gap, allowing the user to enter the percentage of the surplus cash to be used and select the first and last month of the financing period and automatically generating a percentage time series and giving the user access to that time series for manual editing.

A financial simulation computer program product for creating a project preparation, negotiating, and testing environment using standard project finance tools, comprising:

• a computer usable medium having computer-readable program code embodied in a medium for generating financial statements, financial data, charts, graphs and reports using the standard project finance tools, the product having
• means for providing limited recourse including debt service reserve accounts, stand-by loans and risk-sharing with suppliers and off-takers,
• means for allowing automatically generated or manual entry of and editing of capital expenditure time series for multiple contracts in multiple capital expenditure categories;
• means for selecting a desired financing time horizon for each loan;
• means for setting for each loan a percentage of capital expenditure time series to be financed,
• means for automatically generating a loan disbursement time series, and
• means for generating a loan disbursement time series independent of changes in capital expenditure and exchange rates based upon earlier automatically generated loan disbursement time series, and
• means for depositing cash from the cash account into interest earning accounts for a freely selectable depositing period allowing the user to select the account currency and selecting one of withdrawal methods equal installments or annuity and capitalizing interest paid on the account.

Method for implementing a machine-readable financial simulation computer program, comprising:

• installing the program which is contained as computer readable code on a computer usable medium in a computer permitting entry of data representative of multiple contracts and multiple expenditure categories;
• selecting a desired loan financing time horizon;
• setting a percentage of a capital expenditure time series to be financed;
• and
• generating a loan disbursement time series and disbursement schedule independent of changes in capital expenditures and in exchange rates;
• and
• method for automatically generating a loan disbursement time series to close part of or all of a financing gap and limiting the total loan amount drawn down from a loan during the disbursement period by a total loan amount for that loan equal to a maximum amount disbursed for principal plus a maximum interest amount to be capitalized both as entered by the user, assigning a rank to a loan and ensuring that loans are drawn down according to their rank with the loan with rank one being drawn down first.

Method for implementing a machine-readable financial simulation computer program, comprising:

• installing the program which is contained as computer readable code on a computer usable medium in a computer permitting entry of data representative of multiple contracts and multiple expenditure categories;
• selecting a desired loan financing time horizon;
• setting a percentage of a capital expenditure time series to be financed;
• and
• generating a loan disbursement time series and disbursement schedule independent of changes in capital expenditures and in exchange rates;
• and
• method for automatically generating a loan disbursement time series to close a financing gap with one or more loans and the total loan amount drawn down for a loan during the disbursement period limited by a total loan amount for that loan equal to the total maximum amount for principal plus the maximum amount for interest to be capitalized both as entered by the user, assigning a percentage of the financing gap to be closed by that loan and ensuring that the loans assigned to close a percentage of the financing gap do not finance more than one hundred percent of such a financing gap.

Method for implementing a machine-readable financial simulation computer program, comprising:

• installing the program which is contained as computer readable code on a computer usable medium in a computer permitting entry of data representative of multiple contracts and multiple expenditure categories;
• selecting a desired loan financing time horizon;
• setting a percentage of a capital expenditure time series to be financed;
• and
• generating a loan disbursement time series and disbursement schedule independent of changes in capital expenditures and in exchange rates;
• and
• method for selecting one of a coupon bond, zero coupon bond, revenue bond and specially customized bond to inject funds in a freely selectable project currency into the project company, allowing the user to inject such funds at face value, at a discount or at a premium and automatically calculating the carrying value of the bond and the net interest expense for each period over the lifetime of the bond.

Method for implementing a machine-readable financial simulation computer program, comprising:

• installing the program which is contained as computer readable code on a computer usable medium in a computer permitting entry of data representative of multiple contracts and multiple expenditure categories;
• selecting a desired loan financing time horizon;
• setting a percentage of a capital expenditure time series to be financed;
• and
• generating a loan disbursement time series and disbursement schedule independent of changes in capital expenditures and in exchange rates;
• and
• method for using cash from the cash account to close a financing gap, allowing the user to enter the percentage of the surplus cash to be used and select the first and last month of the financing period and automatically generating a percentage time series and giving the user access to that time series for manual editing.

Method for implementing a machine-readable financial simulation computer program, comprising:

• installing the program which is contained as computer readable code on a computer usable medium in a computer permitting entry of data representative of multiple contracts and multiple expenditure categories;
• selecting a desired loan financing time horizon;
• setting a percentage of a capital expenditure time series to be financed;
• and
• generating a loan disbursement time series and disbursement schedule independent of changes in capital expenditures and in exchange rates;
• and
• method for depositing cash from the cash account into interest earning accounts for a freely selectable depositing period allowing the user to select the account currency and selecting one of withdrawal methods equal installments or annuity and capitalizing interest paid on the account.