Using commercial share of wallet to rate business prospects

• US 8,417,612 B2
• Filed: 03/28/2012
• Issued: 04/09/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. (American Express Company)
• Original Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. (American Express Company)
• Inventors: Haggerty, Kathleen, Lyon, Charles Christopher, Okoh, Benedict O., Phelan, Robert E., Ruterman, Jon Kevin, Turner, Geraldine A., Yuan, Chao M., Biswas, Arnab, Chatterji, Siddhartha
• Primary Examiner(s): Hammond, III, Thomas M
• Application Number:
  US13/432,968
• Publication Number:
  US 20120185297A1
• Time in Patent Office: 377 Days
• Field of Search: 705 35- 45
• US Class Current: 705/35
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/02 Banking, e.g. interest calculation or account maintenance credit or loans G06Q40/03
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance

Abstract

Commercial size of spending wallet (“CSoSW”) is the total business spend of a business including cash but excluding bartered items. Commercial share of wallet (“CSoW”) is the portion of the spending wallet that is captured by a particular financial company. A modeling approach utilizes various data sources to provide outputs that describe a company'"'"'s spend capacity. Research analysts can use CSoW/CSoSW to provide a comprehensive and robust indication of the business prospects of a rated company.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

modeling, by a financial assessment computer-based system, industry spending patterns, wherein the computer-based system comprises a computer processor and a tangible, non-transitory memory and wherein the modeling comprises;

identifying the cost of goods sold and operating expenses;

at least one of identifying the cardable operating expenses from the operating expenses and identifying a cardable operating expenses ratio from aggregate corporate data;

at least one of summing the cardable operating expenses with the cost of goods sold and summing the cost of goods sold with the product of operating expenses and the cardable operating expenses ratio;

estimating, by the financial assessment computer-based system, a commercial size of spending wallet of a company based on, at least, known financial statement data of the company, total known business spending of the company, and the model of industry spending patterns, and wherein the model of industry spending patterns is used to infer financial statement data and spending data that is not known.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising issuing a corporate rating based on at least the commercial size of spending wallet of the company.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the corporate rating is issued for the company.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the issuing further comprises issuing a corporate rating based on at least the commercial size of spending wallet of the company and historical financial information of the company.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the company is a customer of a provider, and the corporate rating is issued for the provider.

6. The method of claim 5, Wherein the issuing further comprises issuing a corporate rating for the provider based on at least the commercial size of spending wallet of the company and historical financial information of the provider.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the issuing further comprises updating, by the financial assessment computer-based system, an existing corporate rating based on at least the commercial size of spending wallet of the company.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the estimating further comprises outputting, by the financial assessment computer-based system, the commercial size of spending wallet as a score.

9. A system comprising:

a computer processor configured for financial assessment; and

a tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by the computer processor, cause the computer processor to perform operations comprising;

modeling, by the computer processor, industry spending patterns, wherein the modeling comprises;

identifying the cost of goods sold and operating expenses;

at least one of identifying the cardable operating expenses from the operating expenses and identifying a cardable operating expenses ratio from aggregate corporate data;

at least one of summing the cardable operating expenses with the cost of goods sold and summing the cost of goods sold with the product of operating expenses and the cardable operating expenses ratio;

estimating, by the computer processor, a commercial size of spending wallet of a company based on, at least, known financial statement data of the company, total known business spending of the company, and the model of industry spending patterns, and wherein the model of industry spending patterns is used to infer financial statement data and spending data that is not known.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise issuing a corporate rating based on at least the commercial size of spending wallet of the company.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the corporate rating is issued for the company.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the issuing a corporate rating is further based upon at least one of the commercial size of spending wallet of the company and historical financial information of the company.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the company is a customer of a provider, and the corporate rating is issued for the provider.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the issuing a corporate rating is further based upon at least the commercial size of spending wallet of the company and historical financial information of the provider.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein the operations further comprise updating an existing corporate rating based on at least the commercial size of spending wallet of the company.

16. The system of claim 10, wherein the operations further comprise outputting the commercial size of spending wallet as a score.

17. An article of manufacture including a non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by a computing device configured for financial assessment, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:

modeling, by the computing device, industry spending patterns, wherein the modeling comprises;

identifying the cost of goods sold and operating expenses;

at least one of identifying the cardable operating expenses from the operating expenses and identifying a cardable operating expenses ratio from aggregate corporate data;

at least one of summing the cardable operating expenses with the cost of goods sold and summing the cost of goods sold with the product of operating expenses and the cardable operating expenses ratio;

estimating, by the computing device, a commercial size of spending wallet of a company based on, at least, known financial statement data of the company, total known business spending of the company, and the model of industry spending patterns, and wherein the model of industry spending patterns is used to infer financial statement data and spending data that is not known.

18. The article of manufacture of claim 17, wherein the operations further comprise issuing a corporate rating based on at least the commercial size of spending wallet of the company.

19. The article of manufacture of claim 18, wherein the corporate rating is issued for the company.

20. The article of manufacture of claim 18, wherein the issuing a corporate rating is further based upon at least one of the commercial size of spending wallet of the company and historical financial information of the company.