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ARGUS Valuation – DCF Excel Importing

The Excel Import Wizard was designed to save time when entering data from Excel into ARGUS
Valuation – DCF. The Excel Importing feature allows data to be easily imported into an office, retail,
industrial, apartment or senior assisted properties in ARGUS Valuation – DCF. This feature can import
Miscellaneous Revenues, Operating Expenses, Capital Expenditures, and Tenant Data.

If there is more than one file to import using the same Excel format, a Profile can be created. Many Excel
files can be imported using the same Profile.

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Step 1 – Setup

The first screen is where the Excel file(s) are chosen for the import. Profiles are saved selections from
the import process that can be used over and over again. Excel files that are built with the same format
can use a Profile to import data into ARGUS Valuation – DCF.

The Browse Folder

icon allows browsing to
other locations where
Profiles and/or
Folders are saved. If
a profile is used, all
preset parameters will
be used on the Excel
Spreadsheet.

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Step 2 – Property Information

Each of the next steps will function very much like the one below. From this point on, identify what data is
needed for the import into ARGUS Valuation – DCF by selecting the appropriate cells in the Excel file.
Click Next to continue to the next step in the process.

These icons
The box in the open up the
upper left corner of Excel workbook.
the window
displays the status Excel workbook
of each step in the ranges may be
import process. defined and
ARGUS Valuation populated into
- DCF will show a the import fields.
check mark next to
completed fields,
an arrow next to
the field that is
currently being
displayed and a
question mark
next to those fields
that may need to
be defined.

In the Excel
import process,
the ARGUS
Valuation - DCF
Excel Import box
displays the
selected cell for
the import.

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Step 3 – Additional Data

Users now have the ability to import data such as Owner, Lender, etc. This information will be placed in
the Additional Data tab within the Property Description window.

Step 4 – Area Measures

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Step 5 – Miscellaneous Revenues

Click the Excel icon and identify what is to be imported into ARGUS Valuation – DCF as a Miscellaneous
Revenue by highlighting the appropriate block of cells. In the Excel file below, cells B13-O18 were
highlighted. The range includes not only the one Miscellaneous Revenue for that property, but also four
additional lines that were left blank. These blank lines were added so this Profile (template) can be used
for more than one property.

Below is the screen for Miscellaneous Revenues in ARGUS Valuation – DCF. Each of the revenue and
expense screens will be entered in the same fashion.

Because the
header row can
be selected in If there are large
the range, there numbers of line
is an option to items to import,
exclude it from select the Extend to
the import. Bottom checkbox.
ARGUS Valuation -
DCF will import
every line below the
selected data range.
When a header
row is selected, Replicate allows
the Excel column data to be replicated
names appear in for the entire
the Column analysis period.
Definition fields. Specify how many
months will be
Note: If the replicated in the
header row is not Periods field.
included these
fields will simply
show Column A,
Column B, etc.

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ARGUS Valuation – DCF Excel Importing (cont’d)

Step 6 – Reimbursable Expenses

Step 7 – Non-Reimbursable Expenses

If there are no
inputs in a certain
section, click Next
to skip the section
and go to the next
one.

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Step 8 – Capital Expenditures

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Step 9 – Market Leasing Assumptions

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Step 10 – Rent Roll

Notice that the Rent Roll section of the import is very similar to the revenue and expense screens, with
several extra Column Definition fields. The Row(s) per Tenant field defines how many rows were used in
Excel for each tenants lease. The Unit of Measure field is for the one format of Base Rent that is being
imported. The Frequency cell defines how frequently the rent is being adjusted. Reimbursement revenue
can also be imported in one format (Expense Stop and other paid amount formats).

Once the Rent Roll screen has been completed, click on the Next button or click on the Finish button.
The below window will appear. If Yes is clicked, a profile can be created and the ranges selected in the
exercise can be used again.

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Step 11 – Finish and Import

Click on the Import

button to bring the
information into
ARGUS Valuation –
DCF. Select
Update to import to
an existing file or
select New for
creating a new file.

If New is selected, a new ARGUS Valuation – DCF file will automatically open and be named the same as
the Excel file being imported.

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Once the file is imported, adjustments may be needed to the imported information. Additional information
not included in the import process may need to be entered, such as the analysis timing, property
inflations, reimbursement methods, market leasing assumptions, and yield information.

This is an example of the Reimbursable Expense screen and how it would look after the Import. Some
adjustments may be needed (i.e. % Fixed and Inflation).

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