What-if planning without the spreadsheet sprawl
Scenario planning breaks down when every question spawns another tab. A reconciled model lets you ask in plain language and trust the recompute.
By The Rexfin team
Every finance team has the folder: Model_v7_FINAL_actually_final.xlsx. Scenario
planning in spreadsheets starts clean and ends in archaeology — a maze of tabs where
no one’s quite sure which assumption feeds which cell.
Why spreadsheets fight you on scenarios
A scenario is just a set of changed assumptions and everything that depends on them. Spreadsheets make the changing easy and the depending fragile: one moved row and the dependency graph quietly breaks. So teams copy the whole workbook per scenario, and now you maintain five models instead of one.
A model that knows its own dependencies
When your financials live in a structured model instead of a grid of cells, the dependency graph is explicit. Change an assumption — “freeze hiring,” “raise prices 8%,” “lose the top customer” — and every dependent line recomputes, because the model knows what depends on what.
With Rexfin you do this in plain language:
“What’s our runway if we freeze hiring next quarter?”
The model applies the change, recomputes burn and cash, and shows you the answer with the assumptions attached — then lets you compare it side by side with the base case.
One model, many scenarios
Because scenarios are layered on top of one reconciled model, you’re never maintaining parallel spreadsheets. The actuals stay current, the definitions stay consistent, and the scenarios stay comparable.
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