Tutorials : Analyzing investment using Focal Point : Module 1: Configure the financial model : Lesson 3: Create attributes to retrieve the financial metrics
  
Lesson 3: Create attributes to retrieve the financial metrics
In this lesson, you create the attributes to retrieve the financial metrics. You use the alias of the time grid attribute as a prefix for the alias of each these result attributes.
Financial metrics
A good investment analysis measures the probabilities of different financial metric outcomes, their magnitude and the risks that go with it before arriving at a decision. These are some of the important financial metrics:
 
Metric
 
Description
Net Present Value
NPV
The difference between the present value of cash inflows and the present value of cash outflows, over a period of time
Return on Investment
ROI
Compares the magnitude and timing of investment gains with the magnitude and timing of investment costs
Payback period
 
The length of time required for cumulative incoming returns to equal the cumulative costs of an investment
Internal Rate of Return
IRR
The discount rate at which the NPV of costs (negative cash flows) equals the NPV of the benefits (positive cash flows) of the investment
Steps
1 In the list of attributes for the Mobile App module, click Add Attribute.
2 Create an attribute for the Net Present Value:
▪ In the list of attributes, select Matrix.
▪ In the Name field, enter NPV Distribution.
▪ In the Alias field, enter mobile__NPV.
▪ Click OK. The attribute NPV Distribution is added to the list of attributes.
3 Similarly, create these attributes:
 
Attribute type
Attribute name
Alias
Float
NPV Mean
mobile__NPVMean
Float
NPV Standard Deviation
mobile__NPVStddev
Integer
ROI
mobile__ROI
Float
IRR
mobile__IRR
Integer
Payback Period
mobile__ paybackPeriod
Matrix
ROI TO Date
mobile__ ROIToDate
Matrix
ROI TO Go
mobile__ ROIToGo
Matrix
Payback period distribution
mobile__ paybackPeriodDist
Lesson checkpoint
In this lesson, you learned how to create the financial metric attributes to retrieve the investment analysis results. For more information, see Attributes for retrieving financial model results.
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