Market Study - Vacant Office Blocks
We are a South African based company that wants to move in the market of converting Office Blocks to Apartment
We use the Metric System
Can anyone please recommend software:
1. To do a Market Analysis
2. To do Financial Analysis
for our endeavours.
Thanks
Peter de Beer
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Hello Peter
For financial analysis I use Microsoft Excel. There is also a free on-line version called Open Office which is brought to you by the people who believe in open codes. I'll send Joel a note suggesting he post a url but you can probably Google it.
Unfortunately all this gives you is a blank spreadsheet. All the data and the formulas you must develop yourself.
Personally I like doing it that way. Then I know what the assumptions built into the system are. But it could also be that I am just too much of an old dog to want to learn new software tricks. Back when I started in this biz we ran spreadsheets on 1-2-3 on our 286 chip computers where we had an astonishing 256K of RAM "Wow" we thought "who would ever need more computing power than that?".
At the time I was doing these big cash-flow analyses which would look at cash needs by month for 5 years. So I take one to an investory buddy of mine and he looks at it and takes one 81/2x11 page out of the pile. He folds it into thirds so that back of one-third of the sheet is available to me. "Mark", he says, " show me how it works in this much space. If I see it work there then I may be willing to look at all these numbers."
Its still not bad advice, if you cannot do the financial analysis of a project on the back of a business envelope the project is too complicated.
Not the answer you wanted I know but maybe somebody else will come up with something more helpful.
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On 2004-09-15 12:38, commercialking wrote:
Its still not bad advice, if you cannot do the financial analysis of a project on the back of a business envelope the project is too complicated.
Not the answer you wanted I know but maybe somebody else will come up with something more helpful.
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CommKing,
Great advice and very true.