Winter 2014 Newsletter |
Warren & Selbert
Updates
We are pleased to
announce the return of our seasonal Warren & Selbert
Newsletter. Each quarter, we will keep you updated on changes
to the ABC
model, relevant industry news, and our company in general. If
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• Our
team is expanding! Dana Iltis and Jacob Pekelis joined us in
2012.
Each graduated from UCLA with a degree in Mathematics and Economics.
Arthur
Reading is our most
recent addition. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science from UCSB
this past
December, and he earned his undergraduate degree in Physics and
Materials
Science from M.I.T in 2009.
• Jon
Eidelson recently became a grandparent, making him the third employee
at Warren
& Selbert to gain that status.
• Eric
Seale completed his fourth and final leg of the John Muir
Trail,
located in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California.
• Erik
Hellman has been
furthering his education with computer science courses at our
local
community college.
• Coming
up in
February, we look forward to attending both the Infocast Wind and Solar
Finance
& Investment conferences. We are hoping that 2014 is
the year that we
finally win an iPad from one of their raffles.
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ABC Updates
Inverted
Lease Template
ABC has a new Inverted Lease template. An
increasing
number of our clients have been working with these structures, which
are
designed to pass the ITC to the equity investor and return full
ownership
of the
project to the developer. The new template is accessible
under the “US
Partnership” section when creating a “New Analysis” in ABC.
Custom
Sections for Custom Questions
Custom Sections can now be created to group together related Custom
Questions
outside
of reserved ABC sections. These new sections provide users with more
intuitive
organization capability, and also significantly increase the number of
custom
questions that are allowed in an ABC file.
Cash
and Taxation Override Questions in PSHIP Files
New PSHIP questions are now available to allow the user to override the
taxability
and cash impact of depreciation, loan, revenue, and fee
streams. These
questions allow greater flexibility with scenario sensitivities, and
can be
especially useful for tiered partnership modelling.
EBITDA
Functionality in New Lease Files
EBITDA streams can now be modified by typing "do solar" in solar files,
"do wind" in wind files, or "do project" in inverted lease
files. By selecting the option that reads "Modify EBITDA
Streams," ABC users can add, remove, or edit the EBITDA streams active
in
their file. This is useful for modelling multiple coverage
assumptions
with different probability production curves.
Fee
Scale Mode in PSHIP Files
Custom question 8.603 has been added to the PSHIP macro suite. Using
this
question,
PSHIP can interpret the fee amount in question 8.5 as a percent of a
partner's
equity (or as a percent of a partner’s equity plus unscaled fees)
rather than
strictly as a percent of total cost.
Renumbering Custom Questions
The
CUST/RENUMBER macro can now be used to renumber custom questions in a
given
section based on the order in which their streams appear in section 23.
Hyperlinks
in PSHIP/REPORTSET
The table of contents (“TOC”) tab in an Excel output run of
PSHIP/REPORTSET
now
includes hyperlinks to each report. This gives the user
quick access to
a report tab by clicking on its name in the table of contents.
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