Use the calculator tape interface to enter data
in one row at a time and specify information in these columns: Name,
Description, Type, and Value.
Procedure
- Click the Calculator tab.
- Create a row by clicking the Add variable button. In the Name column, the new variables and constants are
added as V1, V2, and so on, by default.
- Click the name of each variable and constant and rename
them. Do not specify a name that is already in use.
- Optional: In the Description column, provide
descriptions for the variables and constants.
- In the Type column, select the type for each row. The variables can be of the following types: formula, triangular,
or normal. The named constants are of the fixed type. Depending on
the type you select, enter different types of data i n the Value column:
- Fixed: Enter a single value in the Value column.
- Normal: Enter a mean and standard deviation in each
of the Value columns.
- Triangular: Enter the low, likely, and high data in
the Value column.
- Formula: Enter an expression of previously defined
variable names as an algebraic equation.
- Select Run Simulation. An example
of the results of simulation are shown in the figure.
What to do next
You can now analyze the financial model result and assign
the results to a time period.