Forecasting

Cougar can forecast any contract type (lease, debt, or services), supporting all currencies and associated financial structures; tax, partnership, amortization etc.

To generate the forecast Cougar combines contract information, imported from the source system or manually entered, with trend information such as interest rates, exchange rates, and CPI with any type of business assumption manually setup and entered for example renewal probability, down-time, and rent free period.

Unlike any other forecasting system available today, Cougar produces a full set of forward looking financial statements for number of years into the future with the supporting details for each forecast year.

Budget Preparation

Preparing the budget should be a collaborative exercise - but it shouldn't take months of manual labor. Cougar is designed so that your Property Managers can work with your Asset Managers and others - each contributing their expertise to different parts of the process.

Cougar has access to your accounting system's General Ledger so it uses the same level of detail that your Chart of Accounts will allow. We have full history, and as every month is closed off, we upload those actuals too. Your budget is prepared using the latest available data. During the budget season, data can be easily refreshed and reforecast, so that the review process is seamless.

Cougar can drill into microscopic detail for detailed recoveries and end-of-year reconciliations. It can also accommodate detailed percentage rental projections. Cougar takes you below-the-NOI line. Budgeting for debt service and other detailed financing options is made simple and accurate. We can also budget for non-operational items and have those allocated back to properties.

Once the budget has been reviewed and approved, you can export it back into the General Ledger at the push of a button.

Valuation

Cougar can value any cash flow, lease, unit, property or portfolio at any point in the future, or in a rolling format (growing year over year). Out-of-the-box Cougar offers comprehensive solutions for both the Discounted Cashflow (DCF) and Direct Capitalization methods of valuation, with full transparency into how calculations are being performed. In addition, Cougar ships with the ability to customize or create new valuation methodologies by modifying the underlying calculation rule-set.

Investor Reporting

Facilitated by standard integrations with all major property management and accounting systems, combined with its forecasting capabilities, Cougar is the only solution that can seamlessly report on historical, actual, and forecast information.

Out-of-the box Cougar ships with over 200 report templates with critical industry reports such as Funds from Operations (FFO), Cash Available for Distribution (CAD), EBITDA, NOI, Coverage Ratios, Same Store Operations, Debt Analysis, Leasing Activity and Expirations, Portfolio Geographic Spread, Development Pipeline, Levered/Unlevered Returns and Top Twenty Tenants.

Additionally, using Cougar’s reporting Dashboard and Reporting functionality new reports can be created, customized and saved as public (available to everyone) or private.

Performance Management

Cougar provides performance management capabilities through Standard and On-Screen reports, and through an integrated Performance Dashboard. Standard reports are generated off of the Cougar Universe ™, On-Screen reports are generated off of the live Cougar transactional database. Performance Dashboards are driven off of both. This dual source reporting strategy allows for real-time and analytical reporting without compromising performance.

All reports allow for detailed analysis via drill down capabilities and variance reporting, facilitating exception based management strategies to quickly and efficiently identify problem areas, identify root causes issues, and develop and execute resolution strategies.