Patent Document ID: 7899735
Application ID: 11072566
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method that analyzes financial performance measures of a company, the method comprising: generating, by instructions stored in a computer-readable memory and executed by a processor coupled to the memory, a display on a computer user interface input device a template with three template areas, a first template area containing historical financial data for a first time period, a second template area containing predicted financial data for the second time period, and a third template area containing financial performance measurement changes from the first time period to the second time period, where the first period precedes the second time period, and where each of the time periods displaying financial performance measures comprising: NOPAT, Capital, Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC), a company's Economic Profit (EP), Current Value (CV), Future Value (FV), Enterprise Value (EV), Market Value of Equity, Market Value of Debt, number of company shares, and share price; receiving through the input device at the first template area or by memory upload into the first template area, using instructions stored in a computer-readable memory and executed by a processor coupled to the memory, historical financial data of a company for at least a first time period, where the values for the first time period for the historical financial data comprise NOPAT, Capital, WACC, EP, Market Value of Equity, Market Value of Debt, and either a number of company shares or share price, Enterprise Value, the Current Value and the Future Value, wherein the Enterprise Value is the Market Value of Equity plus the Market Value of Debt, the Current Value is the NOPAT divided by the WACC, and the Future Value is the Enterprise Value minus the Current Value; receiving through the input device at the second template area or by memory upload into the second template area, using the instructions executed by the processor, target input variables for targeted changes from the first time period to the second time period, the target input variables comprising: target Net Operating Profit After Tax (NOPAT) growth; target Total Return to Shareholders (TRS), and target dividends per share; calculating, by the instructions executed by the processor, the predicted financial data for the second period based on the target input variables applied to the historical financial data for the first period and displaying the results in the second template area; calculating, by the instructions executed by the processor, the financial performance measurement changes from the first period to the second period and displaying the results in the third template area; calculating, by the instructions executed by the processor, a percentage change in Total Economic Profit (TEP) from the first time period to the second time period and displaying the results in the third template area; comparing, by the instructions executed by the processor, a percentage change in target Total Return to Shareholders (TRS) displayed in the second template area to the percentage change in Total Economic Profit (TEP) from the first time period to the second time period displayed in the third template area; adjusting recursively, by the instructions executed by the processor, at least one of the target input variables for a future time period until a percentage change in target Total Return to Shareholders (TRS) displayed in the second template area is equal to a user selectable target Total Return to Shareholders (TRS) value.