Introduction

Welcome to XERAS Cloud. XERAS is a cloud-based modelling framework that provides powerful business modelling, financial analysis and forecasting capability within a single modelling environment. XERAS Cloud continues the long history of the XERAS software which has, for more than 35 years, been providing customers with the ability to produce:

• Strategic financial plans.
• Long-term detailed financial plans.
• Short-term, highly granular, budgets and forecasts.

XERAS enables sophisticated and detailed business models, focusing on Activity-Based Costing, and Zero-Based Budgeting concepts within a familiar spreadsheet environment.

XERAS provides a framework for economic, financial and resources modelling of businesses in an innovative, structured and auditable environment. It is ideally suited to individual businesses as well as corporations that are capital intensive or have a degree of replication of similar cost entities, such as equipment or processes. It is equally useful for modelling proposed or existing operations.

XERAS is ideal for performing activity-based costing as the business model can contain sub-activities in a tree structure that mimics the reporting and hierarchy of an operation. The level of detail is controlled by your requirements and is reflected in the modelling structure. Calculations can be dynamically linked to production schedules and base level cost items such as fuel and electricity. This allows fast model re-evaluation when underlying conditions change, and facilitates analysis of alternatives to produce the optimum plan for your business.