An affordability analysis that is based on a what-if scenario. A what-if analysis is useful if you do not have complete data or if you want to explore the effect of various changes to your income, liabilities, or available funds or to the qualifying ratios or down payment expenses that are used in the analysis.
What-If Scenario A contingency analysis or examination of the effects of certain events that may occur in the future. Specifically, such analyses focus on the effect on cash flow, liquidity, operating income, operating expenses and overall affordability. For example, what would happen if the primary income-earner in a household was laid off for six months; or what effect would the loss of an anchor tenant or a four-percentage-points increase in the landlord's interest rate have on cash flow. In addition to examining the effects, these analyses also looks at possible options and how to prepare for such contingencies.
The process of automatically generating detailed projections for hundreds of different scenarios - not one of which has a snowball's chance in hell of being even remotely possible.
(Scheduling). The what-if method uses an anticipated or planned schedule that indicates key milestones, as a baseline to measure project delays(Schumacher, 1995). Also see "Sensitivity/what-if analysis"
Process in which certain values are changed in a spreadsheet in order to reveal the effects of those changes. 3.14