Forecasting: Applying Manual Edits and Growth Models to the Balance Sheet.

The Quick Edit feature provides great power with several shortcut and calculation aides.

https://plansmith.com/pub/tutorials/ForecastEditingTools/Editing_Tools_for_Compass.mp4

This 57-minute webinar reviews the different types of growth models, how to forecast using these growth models, and methods for forecasting non-interest income and non-interest expense.

Forecasting Growth

Learn how to link Interest Rates to the Yield Curve with spreads, floors & ceilings.

https://plansmith.com/pub/tutorials/PricingModels/Compass_Pricing_Overview.mp4

Pricing Model Examples

View this 77-minute session to learn about the essential components of pricing models, creating assumptions, and the application of pricing models in rate shock and budgeting.

Building Pricing Models

Learn how Compass captures the financial intuition’s specific prepayment experience and allows both simple and complex prepayment modeling at the account or category level.

https://plansmith.com/pub/tutorials/CompassPrepayments/CompassPrepayments.html

Click on the link to view and download additional training materials for this module:

Prepayment Converter for Securities: PSAs & CPRs

View this 65-minute session to learn how Optionality is addressed in Compass through the Put/Call Feature and Prepayment Modeling. Understand the application of Decay and Alternate Discount Rates on Non-maturing Deposits (NMD). Review the input and functionality of Taxes and Dividends within the model.

Assumption Documentation Guide

Assumption Recap

RoundOutYourAssumptionsforBudgetingIRR

This 26-minute webinar reviews best practice techniques for creating your annual budget and locking your budget for the new year.

Best Budgeting Practices 2027 Link

Compass Best Practice Techniques Handout

Learn how to suspend auto reforecasting to get your month-end download complete during budget approval times.

Learn how to use the Lock Budget feature to transfer the projections into the Budget Tab.

This tutorial reviews the process referred to as shifting the database which is necessary to accommodate projected data for a new 12-month period by moving the prior year’s actual data and storing it as history.

https://plansmith.com/pub/tutorials/Year_End_Shift2027/Compass_Year_End_Shift2027.html

This tutorial Includes the definitions, uses, and examples of the impact  for common hedges and swaps in Compass. 

https://plansmith.com/pub/tutorials/HedgesAndSwaps/DefinitionsUses/DefinitionsUses.html

This tutorial will show the steps to create an interest rates floor in Compass.

https://plansmith.com/pub/tutorials/HedgesAndSwaps/AssetInterestRateFloor.mp4

This tutorial will show the steps to create an interest rates cap in Compass.

https://plansmith.com/pub/tutorials/HedgesAndSwaps/AssetInterestRateCap.mp4

This tutorial will show the steps to create an asset receiving a fixed paid floating swap in Compass.

https://plansmith.com/pub/tutorials/HedgesAndSwaps/AssetRcvFixedPayFloating.mp4

This tutorial will show the steps to create an asset pay floating received fixed swap in Compass.

https://plansmith.com/pub/tutorials/HedgesAndSwaps/LiabilityPayFloatingReceiveFixed.mp4

This tutorial will show the steps to create an asset pay fixed received floating swap in Compass.

https://plansmith.com/pub/tutorials/HedgesAndSwaps/LiabilityPayFixedReceiveFloating.mp4