Monthly Processing Tutorials
The tutorials in this section review Compass ways to load historical financial data as well as maturity and repricing information on the existing portfolio.
Monthly Download (19:56)
Learn how DataBridge is the part of Compass that automates the process of reading data files extracted from your other data processing systems.
Click on the links below to view and download Compass training materials.
Rate Forecast (2:56)
Plansmith provides an optional automated download of a rate forecast from Blue Chip Financial Forecasts©, which surveys 50 of the country’s top economic forecasting firms.
https://plansmith.com/pub/tutorials/RateForecast/Rate_Forecast2024.mp4
Red Flags (15:21)
Learn how to identify and correct Red Flags, which indicate that a logic or data error exists within the account.
https://www.plansmith.com/pub/videos/red_flags/red_flags.html
Add a New Account (17:40)
Learn how to add a new account to your Compass Chart of Accounts
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Account Projections Overview (9:14)
Learn how this screen allows you to model the growth, pricing, income and expense of the Balance Sheet and Income Statement.
Forecasting Overview (13:42)
Forecasting: Applying Manual Edits and Growth Models to the Balance Sheet
https://youtu.be/NrWRbnM65MU
Forecast Editing Tools (11:49)
The Quick Edit feature provides great power with several shortcut and calculation aides
Forecasting Webinar (57:32)
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.
Pricing Models Overview (11:20)
Learn how to link Interest Rates to the Yield Curve with spreads, floors & ceilings.
Pricing Models Webinar (1:17:45)
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.
Prepayment Utility (28:30)
Learn how Compass captures the financial instution’s specific prepayment experience and allows both simple and complex
prepayment modeling at the account or category level.
Rounding Out Your Assumptions Webinar (1:05:49)
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.
Best Budgeting Practices (25:50)
This 26-minute webinar reviews best practice techniques for creating your annual budget and locking your budget for the new year.
https://youtu.be/02BH_rAVtN0
Suspend Auto Reforecasting During Budget Approval (10:45)
Learn how to suspend auto
https://youtu.be/Ogyrp_nSMFM
Locking the Budget (6:33)
Learn how to use the Lock Budget feature to transfer the projections into the Budget Tab.
https://youtu.be/13_yuOAYe-8
Year-End Shift (8:21)
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://youtu.be/5wqkHnVGELk