Investments Category

The Investments category allows you to distribute the project costs evenly across multiple project years or additional costs.

Settings

"Investment Period" group
Begin (SOI)	Enter the month and the year in which the investment begins.
Duration	Enter the investment period in years (a) or months. The investment end date (EOI) is automatically set according to the entered duration. The application ensures that the investment period is longer or equal to the production period.
End (EOI)	Enter the month and year in which the calculation ends.
"Define investment period manually" checkbox	The checkbox is only available, if the system settings allow you to overwrite the investment period manually.
Interest group
Interest periods	Display of the interest period in use. This is defined in the system settings and cannot be edited in the project. You can set monthly and annual interest periods.
Nominal interest rate	Corresponds to the annual interest rate on capital. The interest rate on capital is defined via an assigned location.
Conform interest rate	The conform interest rate is imputed from the nominal interest rate for monthly interest periods. The interest for monthly interest payment with the conform interest rate correspond to the interests for annual interest payment with a nominal interest rate.
Net Present Value Date group
Relative	The SOP and EOP, or SOI and EOI are displayed relative to the net present value date. This exact date can be defined in the system settings.
Date	Shows the net present value date depending on the defined investment period of the system settings: Annually: Shows the year Monthly: Shows the month(s) and year
"Define date manually" checkbox	The checkbox can only be activated, if the system settings allow you to define the date manually.

Cash Flow tab

View combobox	You can choose between 3 different views. Investments Yearly payments Monthly payments (only available for monthly investment periods)
Column Selection button	You can hide or show additional values you have at least reading permission for. The column selection is user-specifically saved. The attributes are hidden by default; they can be displayed but not edited.
Manual Cash Flow checkbox	When activated, you can overwrite the monthly or annual payment. The checkbox is automatically activated for project-specific machines, or when you already have defined manual cash flow to an additional cost in the Insert Additional Costs dialog.
Path	Path of investment type in the project structure
Name	Name of investment type
Type	Shows investment type Additional costs Project-specific machine
Total CashOut	Sum of all payments
Remaining Cash-Out	Remaining payments to be disposed
Additional columns in the Annual payments and Monthly payments views
Year	Year of payment
Annual Cash-Out	Payment distribution per year
Additional columns in the Monthly payments view
Month	Investment month
Monthly Cash-Out	Payment distribution per month

Key Figures tab

Static Investment Calculation

Revenue	The revenue is determined by the monthly sales prices and is converted into the project currency.
Product costs	The product costs are determined by the monthly product costs, and are converted into the project currency. The monthly product costs are constant throughout the considered year
Profit	The profit equals the difference from revenues and costs.
Investments	Investments correspond to the sum of all defined disbursements of additional costs and machines throughout the project period. Investments are converted into the project currency
Direct payments (Refunds)	Refunds equal to the sum of all defined deposits of additional costs, and are converted into the project currency.
Total cash-in	Equals the sum of refunds and revenues.
Total cash-out	Equals the sum of investments and costs.
Return on Invest  (ROI)	Equals the ratio from profit and investments in %.
Depreciation time (static)	Equals the average overplus amount of periods divided by the investments without considering the capital interest.	with

The months from SOI to EOI are used for P.

A deprecation time less than 0 is not shown. A line is shown instead.

Dynamic Investment Calculation

Capital value (Net present value)	The capital value is calculated based on the net present value and the period overplus amount which are discounted by the conform interest rate. No discount is made within the period that is directly defined by the net present value.
Internal nominal interest rate	The internal interest rate is that interest for which the capital value is 0. Monthly and annual interest periods are considered.
Depreciation time (dynamic)	Number of periods from SOI until the net present value reaches 0 or until the accumulated period overplus amounts switch from negative to positive.