EPISODE A4.004 Create Tracking Report on Cash Flow Management

Introduction
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Show Objectives
Got your big girl or big boy pants on? Today's show will determine whether the business survives the rapid growth of Stage IV. This is a real skill set to be mastered and the following is what we have done and consulted others to do.
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Key Issues - ​Owner/Manager perspective:

1. Identify all the sources of cash (what is coming in),
2. Identify all of the demands on cash (what is going out),
3. Build a spreadsheet that indicates periods of negative velocity.

What You Need to Know
Money In
Cash Received

• Paid Cash Sales
• Paid Accounts Receivable
• Bank Interest
• Refunds & Rebates
• Dividends
• Loans
• Inventory Sales
• Other Income

Money Out
Cash Paid Out

• Materials
• Labor
• Servicing Debt
• New Financing
• Leases
• Mortgages
• Travel & Per Diem
• Other Expenses

Cash and Credit Available

• Cash on Hand
• Available Credit

What You Need to Do​
Even though your accounting software can provide this information, I recommend you build your own spreadsheet at first. Create your own formulas and relationships, play your own version of "what if". The reason? You will understand the concept of Velocity of Cash IN and OUT at a level not possible from reading a report. Once you understand it at this level getting the software give you a report is fine.

1. Create a spreadsheet that covers all of the elements of cash in and cash out.
2. Using historical data for variable and constant (fixed) items, project the numbers over the next 3 months or longer - we match the sales cycle at a minimum.
3. Place close attention to those months when cash out exceeds cash in and especially when it cleans out all of your cash used for operations (Cash on Hand or COH).
4. If you didn't understand why a Line of Credit was essential - now you will.
5. Shift your Executive behavior at either delaying cash out to a better period or increasing the cash in to balance the equation.

Since we are at Stage IV there is a good chance you have a CFO working with you and use their counsel on how to make this work.

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