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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 the timing in the company's own ledger, and the weeks add up to the month.
• AR and AP aging set when opening balances are collected or paid, and payroll pay dates are placed as events.
• The screen says when a week relies on history rather than the model.

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 diagnosed before any action 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
• Reporting year and fiscal year
• Custom statement layouts

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