Input Requirements
When CAPACITY is used to replicate an existing business plan the following Input data are required:
- Identification details for the housing
association
- Business Plan Accounting Data
- at least one year’s historical and (ideally) 30 year’s projections
- Income and Expenditure Account, Balance Sheet, Cash flow Statement - General Assumptions
- Business Stream Assumptions
- data on the subset of the 16 business streams appropriate to the particular housing association.
A different sub-set of business stream data is required from that used to generate an original forecast. On all input screens the blue and green coloured cells must be completed to produce a reconciled forecast. Yellow coloured cells should be left blank since the model can derive the content from other inputs. Details of the forecasting routines for individual items and the implications for definition of data for input are given in the Input Guidelines. A simplified summary of the forecasting and reconciliation logic is given on the following sheets pages, a big distinction being between housing property-based activities and non-property-based activities.
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