Cost, Economic, and Financial Analysis

Assessing the Economic Consequences of Decisions

Making the best investment decision is essential. SAIC understands the imperative of continually assessing the business environment's impact on financial performance.

SAIC's consultants specialize in helping clients better understand the economic consequences of their business decisions. SAIC's experience with commercial and government customers allows us to customize best practice solutions and implement them within a customer's operational scope and budget. Our approach works because we have the capabilities, resources, solutions and experience to quickly assess a problem and assemble a team to deliver tangible results.

SAIC offers analytic rigor and insight in:

• Financial and Economic Modeling
• Investment and Business Case Analysis
• Supply and Demand Forecasting
• Life-Cycle Cost/Benefit Analysis
• Financial Risk Analysis and Mitigation
• Weapons Systems Cost Estimation and Modeling

Helping Clients Evaluate Opportunity Cost

By employing proven methods, models, tools, and techniques to support government and private industry customers, SAIC is able to provide high-quality economic, financial, and cost analyses that help clients make successful decisions regarding opportunity cost. The integration of our financial expertise, with the expansive technical capability drawn from throughout SAIC, allows our team to provide value to our customers. We work closely with our clients to help meet their goals and objectives through budget savings and effective resource allocation.

Experience with Clients in Diverse Business Areas

• Development of strategic business plans, valuation exercises, and financial instruments - international telecommunication client's new wireless product line
• Business case analysis to raise investment capital - global medical services firm
• Financial and technical due diligence in support of acquisition - international telecommunications company and publicly traded biotech firm
• Cost-benefit for government information technology (IT) system acquisition including human resource system, mobile command center, collision avoidance and vehicle stability systems - major government clients
• Recommendations to boost economic value - major international airport
• Cost estimating relationships and cost factors - major government client