Generating Expert Comments

Procedure

To generate expert comments that compares a customer's financial data to a Financial Benchmark A portfolio that aggregates financial statement data for a group of customers fromyour eCredit database. You define rules to select the customers included in the portfolio. eCredit calculates an average financial statement and cash flow statement, and the quintile distribution for the ratios for the portfolio members. You can use thisdata as benchmarks when analyzing risk for customers that are comparable to the portfolio members. or Standard portfolio: A standard portfolio stores the percentile distribution for financial ratios obtained from external databases of industry standards. This distribution is used to generate Expert Comments through the Financial Analysis feature. You use the Portfolio Management module to enter standard portfolios.

  1. Select the customer. How?

  2. Select the Financial Analysis tab.
    The Financials screen appears.

  3. In the Portfolio field, select the portfolio you want to compare to the selected statement. You can generate Expert Comments using a Financial Benchmark or a Standard portfolio.

  4. In the Quarter field, select the financial quarter for the portfolio.

  5. Select the check box for the statement you want to compare to the portfolio.

  6. Click Expert Comments.
    The Expert Comments screen appears.

  7. To print the Expert Comments, click Print.

  8. To scroll down to a particular section, select the section from the list at the top of the screen.