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Cash, terms & credit

Cash flow, working capital, receivables financing and supplier discounts.

Cash flow forecast

Daily projection of the business balance with payment methods, installments, supplier terms, payroll, rent and taxes.

Daily balance and when cash gets tight

Working capital

Working capital need from collection, inventory and payment terms, the cash conversion cycle and the cost of each way to fund it.

Need from terms and the cost of each funding option

Receivables advance

Real cost of advancing card sales or invoices, with the effective rate and a comparison with loans, credit lines and waiting.

Real cost of advancing card sales and invoices

Supplier discount

Interest hidden in supplier terms compared with your return on cash and the cost of a loan, and how much you gain by paying early.

Interest hidden in the supplier’s terms

Late fee and interest

Work out an overdue bill with a late fee, daily or compound late interest and an optional inflation adjustment, from dates or days late.

Overdue bill: fee, interest and adjustment

Receivables aging

Calculate the bad debt allowance by aging bucket, days sales outstanding and how much cash late payments tie up in receivables.

Allowance, DSO and cash tied up

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Financial ratios and health

Business financial ratios (liquidity, leverage, profitability and efficiency) with a traffic light, a 0–10 score and the cash cycle.

Liquidity, debt, margins and cash cycle

Inventory and EOQ

Economic order quantity, safety stock, reorder point, turnover and the cost of idle inventory.

How much and when to buy

Burn rate and runway

Burn rate, runway, break-even month, default alive or default dead, and when to start the next fundraise.

Months of cash, default alive and when to raise

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