An AI tool automatically builds financial scenarios by picking three variables: sales price, sales volume, and inflation. It proposes ranges like ±$50 for price and ±1% for volume, then generates an assumption page with tax rates and historical sales volume calculated from past data.
I am going to build scenarios to have a best and a worst case around sales price, sales volume, and inflation. Now that kind of blew my mind because that's what we do. I didn't tell it to do that. I just said choose 3 variables and it decided it would go plus and minus $50 for the sales price, plus and minus 1% for volume, and it told me what it would use for inflation. And then it said, hey, what do you think? Should I proceed with this plan or would you like any adjustments? I'm like, no, that's good. So I literally said please proceed. It put an assumption page. It's not the prettiest assumption page that you'll ever see, but it's pretty good. It would be very easy to clean up. It used blue as the default font. It's got inflation, it's got tax rate, it's got the differential between government and accounting earnings. This cell interested me. This cell fascinated me. The historical sales volume, because that's not in the case. We did not give it that. In order to derive that, you have to calculate that based on the revenue data and the pricing data in the historical year.
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