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Frac CFO

Investment & Acquisition Decision Model

Choose the best combination.
Not just the best-looking deal.

Evaluate projects, acquisition targets, or investments under real-world budget, capacity, dependency, and risk limits.

✓Scenario-ready
↗Value-focused
◷Constraint-aware
From “Which looks good?” to “Which combination works?”
Acquisition Portfolio
Budget €750k
A
Target A
€280k · NPV €142k
SELECT
B
Target B
€190k · NPV €96k
SELECT
C
Target C
€250k · High risk
D
Target D
€120k · NPV €65k
SELECT
€590kCapital Used
€303kPortfolio NPV
€160kCash Left
□ Budget ConstraintNever exceed available capital.
✓ Optimized PortfolioBest feasible combination.
The real allocation problem

A good investment can still be the wrong choice.

Because you are not choosing in a vacuum.

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Budget

Which opportunities fit available capital, financing limits, and minimum liquidity?

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Capacity

Which projects fit available people, equipment, management time, and implementation bandwidth?

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Risk

Which combination keeps downside, concentration, and exposure within acceptable limits?

Built around your decision

Your assumptions in. Decision logic out.

No generic ROI ranking sheet.

What you provide

  • Purchase price or initial investment
  • Expected cash flows
  • Financing and working-capital needs
  • Base, upside, and downside assumptions
  • Dependencies and mutually exclusive choices
  • Budget, capacity, and risk limits

What the model solves

  • Which opportunities should be selected
  • How much capital should be allocated
  • Which constraints are binding
  • Expected portfolio NPV and return
  • Remaining budget and operating capacity
  • How the answer changes under different scenarios
Optimization engine

Evaluate opportunities together.

This is where the model becomes more powerful than a normal investment spreadsheet.

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Maximize NPV

Choose the feasible portfolio expected to create the most economic value.

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Respect Budget

Keep total investment inside capital, financing, and liquidity limits.

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Handle Dependencies

Model projects that require, exclude, or depend on other choices.

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Control Risk

Cap exposure, concentration, or downside based on your decision rules.

The output is a portfolio. Not the project with the prettiest IRR. The best feasible combination under your constraints.
Worked example

Six acquisition targets. €750k available.

Decision rules

  • Keep at least €100k cash remaining
  • Maximum two acquisitions
  • Stay below the portfolio risk limit
  • Target C requires Target B
  • Targets D and E cannot both be selected
  • Management capacity is limited
The question changes
Which combination should you actually buy?

The model tests the feasible combinations, calculates the economics, and identifies the portfolio that best satisfies the objective and constraints.

Different question from: “Which target has the highest IRR?”

Where it fits

One framework. Many capital decisions.

A

Business Acquisitions

Compare targets, financing needs, returns, and portfolio limits.

B

Capital Budgeting

Prioritize internal projects competing for the same capital.

C

Expansion

Select locations, equipment, markets, or business units.

D

Real Estate

Choose properties under capital, financing, and portfolio constraints.

E

Search Funds / PE

Structure acquisition-target selection and capital allocation.

F

Entrepreneurs

Allocate limited personal or business capital across competing opportunities.

How the project works

From raw opportunities to a repeatable decision system.

Step 01

Define

Clarify the decision, objective, and opportunity set.

Step 02

Model

Structure cash flows, purchase costs, returns, and scenarios.

Step 03

Constrain

Add budget, capacity, dependency, and risk rules.

Step 04

Optimize

Identify the best feasible combination of opportunities.

Step 05

Stress Test

See how the answer changes when the assumptions move.

You keep the model.

Change assumptions. Add opportunities. Adjust budgets. Test scenarios. Rerun the optimization. The deliverable is not one answer — it is a reusable decision system.

Stop evaluating investments one at a time.

Send your opportunities, acquisition targets, or project assumptions. Frac CFO will turn them into a structured financial decision model.

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Decision support uses the assumptions provided and does not replace legal, tax, financing, operational, or commercial due diligence.