Patent ID: 7177834

Claim:
A method for implementing a machine-readable financial simulation computer program product for creating a project preparation, negotiating and testing environment using project finance tools, comprising: installing the program which is contained as computer readable code on a computer usable medium for generating financial statements, financial data, charts, graphs and reports using the project finance tools providing limited recourse including debt service reserve accounts, stand-by loans and risk sharing with suppliers and off-takers in a computer; entry and editing of data representative of multiple contracts and multiple capital 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 independent of changes in capital expenditures and exchange rates based on an earlier automatically generated disbursement time series, wherein the capital expenditure categories serve as a basis for loan financing comprise a first category which includes total capital expenditure, site, buildings, equipment and pre-production costs; a second category which includes total expenditure in a category element or sub-elements which include imports, local content, customs, imports and customs, local content and customs, and imports and customs; a third category which is an individual contract; and a fourth category which includes a total expenditure of a contract or sub-elements thereof, including imports, local content, customs, imports and customs, local content and customs, and imports and local content.