A financial simulation computer program product and method to create a
project preparation, negotiating, and testing environment using standard
project finance tools. A computer usable medium having computer-readable
program code is embodied in a medium for generating financial statements,
financial data, charts, graphs and reports using the standard project
finance tools. The product and method allow automatically generated or
manual entry of and editing of capital expenditure time series for
multiple contracts in multiple capital expenditure categories. Limited
recourse including debt service reserve accounts, stand-by loans and
risk-sharing with suppliers and off-takers is taken into account. A
desired financing time horizon is selected for each loan. For each loan
the user can either manually enter disbursements or select a capital
expenditure category and finance a percentage of the category. A loan
disbursement time series is automatically generated. A loan disbursement
times series is optionally generated independently of changes in capital
expenditures and exchange rates based upon an earlier automatically
generated loan disbursement time series.