Finance Atena Insights

Digital Transformation: Finance Atena's Approach

Finance Atena — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 10:30:00 GMT

In September 2023, the article “Digital Twin Business Model (DTBM) for Strategic Business Planning” was published in ilSole24Ore, in the “Companies & Territory” section.

This new DTBM methodology, developed using the Finance Atena® Platform, provides a true strategic, economic, financial, and organizational digital twin of the company, upon which all business and managerial decisions can be accurately simulated. This enables decisions to be directed toward the best possible optimization of investments, costs, revenues, tax profile, profitability, bankability, and, in general, corporate sustainability—including from the perspective of sustainable finance (EU Taxonomy, Sustainability Report, ESG), through the optimal utilization of these factors.

Digital Twin Business Model: the Finance Atena webinar

Finance Atena — Thu, 25 May 2023 10:30:00 GMT

With the aim of assisting entrepreneurs and investors, Atena has developed a new strategic consulting methodology known as the Digital Twin Business Model (DTBM).

Prime Assumption Rules: the Webinar

Finance Atena — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 09:30:00 GMT

Last Wednesday, February 22, the “Prime Assumption Rules” event, sponsored by Finance Atena, was held on LinkedIn Live and Zoom. The session was moderated by Leandro Nadir Baroncini, Founder & Creative Director of Emotions for Business, who served as the interviewer, and Paolo Zammitti, Head of Finance Atena, who explained to our viewers the concept of Prime Assumption Rules - what they are, how important they are to the reliability of predictive models, and why no one ever talks about them.

Sustainability, Innovation, and the Future

Finance Atena — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 08:45:00 GMT

Last Monday, January 16, Finance Atena held its event titled “Sustainability, Innovation, and the Future,” during which Leandro Nadir Baroncini, Founder & Creative Director of Emotions for Business, interviewed Paolo Zammitti, Head of Finance Atena.

Predictive Analytics: a comparison of methodologies

Finance Atena — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 07:30:00 GMT

During the live event on“Warehouse Sustainability”held on Wednesday, September 14, 2022, Paolo Zammitti, Head of Finance Atena, addressed the topic of sustainable warehouse management, beginning with a question: What value is placed today on a company’s true sustainability?

Finance Atena and the 3-tier software architecture

paolo.zammitti@atenait.it (Paolo Zammitti) — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 09:45:00 GMT

A business project is not a static system. Prices, costs, market conditions, financing arrangements, business strategies, and investor objectives all change.

For this reason, an economic and financial evaluation cannot be limited to producing a single result or representing the company through a rigid model. It must be able to adapt to the complexity of the project, simulate different scenarios, and analyze the contribution of individual activities.

Leverage in Predictive Analytics

paolo.zammitti@atenait.it (Paolo Zammitti) — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 09:00:00 GMT

Imagine a project with 10 million euros in capex, where all the time spent on financial analysis is devoted to recalculating the financial leverage n times, varying it from 10:90 to 30:70, with thethe goal of reaching the holy grail of a NPV close to 0 (or a WACC of 0.55%, as required by current regulations for projects with public funding) and making the project appealing to the public administration.

Then imagine talking to the investor and discovering that they have a maximum of 100,000 euros in equity to put into the project. The rest remains to be seen. Or imagine the opposite scenario. The investor brings a consortium with them, and they have enough equity to fully cover the investment’s value.

Interview with Stefano Baroncini

Finance Atena — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 10:00:00 GMT

During his interview on Live Social Radio, Stefano Baroncini, CEO and Founder of Atena, highlights the limitations of traditional tools used to evaluate investments, entrepreneurial initiatives, and business strategies. The problem isn’t just about the ability to perform calculations, but above all the difficulty of representing, in a coherent and integrated way, all the variables that influence a project’s evolution. Revenue, costs, investments, financing needs, liquidity, debt, and profitability are not independent elements, but rather parts of a single, constantly evolving system.

Il Sole 24 Ore presents Finance Atena

Finance Atena — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 07:30:00 GMT

We must ask ourselves why the finance sector—which deals with investment analyses involving millions of euros and business models that have a major impact on and carry significant responsibility toward the market and the community—still relies on “do-it-yourself” models in Excel spreadsheets for its predictive economic and financial analyses. The average accuracy of Excel spreadsheets in approximating economic and financial reality is in the range of 15–20%. It’s like photographing reality with an old camera equipped with obsolete lenses that can only produce blurry and unclear photos.