Simmons &
Simmons
Group, LLC
4-Sight Features
Strategic Financial Planning isn’t just about predicting what the revenue will be in five years, it’s about being prepared to respond to an uncertain future. With 4-SIGHT’s interactive dashboards you can quicky and easily visualize the most likely future scenarios so that you can plan accordingly.
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4-SIGHT Model is fully customizable for your institution. It includes an interactive Dashboard to display tailored scenarios and predictions.
Identify the Main Drivers
Does Retention Rate or Discount Rate have a bigger impact on total revenue and expenses? The 4-SIGHT Dashboard will tell you which variables contribute the most to your bottom line so you know where to focus your investments and effort.
Scenario Planning
What’s the worst that could happen? Using the interactive dashboard, you can adjust input variables to generate best-case and worst-case scenarios. One institution modeled a 20% decline in recruitment over four years to determine the reduction of operating expenses that would be needed to remain viable.
Track Strategic Initiatives
How will Strategic Initiative Y affect revenue? Enter your main strategic initiatives into the Initiatives Module to see their contributions over time to Total Revenue and Expenses displayed on the Dashboard. For those initiatives that require an up-front investment, the payback time will be shown.
Identify Critical Thresholds
At what point should you take corrective action? Using 4-SIGHT, you can identify the critical thresholds for key variables that signal it is time to act. For example, if total enrollment is projected to drop below the threshold, leaders should consider extraordinary measures to recruit more students or cut operating expenses.
Most small private institutions are tuition-dependent, so 4-SIGHT begins with a robust enrollment model that accurately tracks the retention and graduation rate of each student cohort. This cohort-based approach means that 4-SIGHT financial projections are closely tied to retention and student success - as they should be.
Baseline Enrollment Projection
Baseline Revenue and Expense Projection
Strategic Financial Planning isn’t just about predicting what the revenue will be in five years, it’s about being prepared to respond to an uncertain future. The 4-SIGHT dashboard will tell you which variables contribute the most to your bottom line so you know where to focus your investments and effort.
What will the operating margin be in 5 years? From enrollment projections, the tuition, room, board and scholarship rates are applied to each cohort to produce a highly accurate projection of your institution’s net student revenue, the main source of revenue for most institutions. This is combined with other sources of revenue and expenses to generate the baseline Total Operating Revenue and Expenses.
Does Retention Rate or Discount Rate have a bigger impact on total revenue and expenses? The 4-SIGHT Dashboard will tell you which variables contribute the most to your bottom line so you know where to focus your investments and effort.
Identify the Main Drivers
Does Retention Rate or Discount Rate have a bigger impact on total revenue and expenses? The 4-SIGHT Dashboard will tell you which variables contribute the most to your bottom line so you know where to focus your investments and effort.
Identify the Main Drivers
Baseline Enrollment Projection
Most small private institutions are tuition-dependent, so 4-SIGHT begins with a robust enrollment model that accurately tracks the retention and graduation rate of each student cohort. This cohort-based approach means that 4-SIGHT financial projections are closely tied to retention and student success - as they should be.
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Baseline Revenue & Expense Projection
What will the operating margin be in 5 years? From enrollment projections, the tuition, room, board and scholarship rates are applied to each cohort to produce a highly accurate projection of your institution’s net student revenue, the main source of revenue for most institutions. This is combined with other sources of revenue and expenses to generate the baseline Total Operating Revenue and Expenses.
Scenario Planning
What’s the worst that could happen? Using the interactive dashboard, you can adjust input variables to generate best-case and worst-case scenarios. One institution modeled a 20% decline in recruitment over four years to determine the reduction of operating expenses that would be needed to remain viable.
Track Strategic Initiatives
How will Strategic Initiative Y affect revenue? Enter your main strategic initiatives into the Initiatives Module to see their contributions over time to Total Revenue and Expenses displayed on the Dashboard. For those initiatives that require an up-front investment, the payback time will be shown.
Identify Critical Thresholds
At what point should you take corrective action? Using 4-SIGHT, you can identify the critical thresholds for key variables that signal it is time to act. For example, if total enrollment is projected to drop below the threshold, leaders should consider extraordinary measures to recruit more students or cut operating expenses.
Identify Critical Thresholds
At what point should you take corrective action? Using 4-SIGHT, you can identify the critical thresholds for key variables that signal it is time to act. For example, if total enrollment is projected to drop below the threshold, leaders should consider extraordinary measures to recruit more students or cut operating expenses.