Watch Video

Watch a short video introduction (6:38 minutes) to the exercises you are about to do in ProVal.

Do Exercises in ProVal

In the previous step, you unzipped OPEBTraining09.zip into a folder, e.g., C:\PROVAL\TRAINING. This folder should now contain the following files:

Provaldd.sf	ProVal client (mostly empty, but contains a few field names)
Pvasmp.sf	‘’
Pvout.sf	‘’
Pvvip.sf	‘’
Val2009.xls	Excel file containing 1/1/2009 data for plan conversion exercise
Val2010.xls	Excel file containing 1/1/2010 data for data screening exercise
Term Rates.xls	Excel file containing termination rates

Complete the following tasks:

• Open the client using the File | Open Client command.
• If a message appears saying this client “was developed under a previous version of ProVal,” click Yes to update the client.