Patent Document ID: 20050209944
Application ID: 11072566
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method for predicting financial performance measures of a company, the method comprising: displaying on a computer user interface a financial performance template for displaying actual performance measures for a first time period, predicted performance measures for a second time period and a change in performance measures from the first time period to the second time period; each of the time periods displaying financial performance measures comprising NOPAT, Capital, WACC, 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 into the computer the values for the first time period for the actual performance measures of NOPAT, Capital, WACC, EP, Market Value of Equity, Market Value of Debt, and either number of company shares or share price; calculating with the computer for the first time period the Enterprise Value, the Current Value and the Future Value based on the received performance measures, 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 into the computer the values for the second time period for the target performance measures of Target TRS, Target Dividend Per Share and Target NOPAT Growth; calculating with the computer for the second time period the predicted performance values based on the received actual performance measures and the target performance measures, calculating with the computer for display the change in the performance measures from the first period to the second period; and establishing company business goals based on predicted performance measures calculated for a received target performance measure.