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The 13-week cash forecast

The 13-week cash forecast is a tab in Forecasts, for each company.

How it is built

• Weeks start on Monday. Actual weeks come from the ledger's cash accounts, with transfers between bank accounts netted out.
• Each forecast month is spread across its weeks using patterns learned from the ledger, such as payroll, rent and when customers pay, so the weeks add up exactly to the month.
• AR and AP aging set when opening balances are collected or paid, and payroll pay dates are placed as events.
• If the monthly model sits well below recent actuals, the affected weeks follow the ledger's history, and the screen says so.

Cash and liquidity

Cash, available credit and total liquidity are shown as three separate figures, each with its own runway, against a minimum you set as an amount or as weeks of payroll and debt service. A shortfall is classed as timing, structural or growth before anything is suggested.

Actions

Plan actions such as accelerating collections, re-timing payments, deferring capital spending or distributions, drawing on a credit facility or arranging funding, each with a status and a confidence. Three views show the current forecast, committed actions only, and the management plan. A potential action never changes any of them.

More in Reporting and planning

• The monthly briefing
• Budgets and budget versus actual
• Forecasting
• Report packages and board packs
• KPIs

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