What you do not see coming
Managing cash flow and key management indicators
A dashboard you actually maintain, not an attractive one you abandon.
Objectives
- Build a three-month cash flow forecast that can be maintained in ten minutes a week
- Measure your dependence on a client, a supplier, a season
- Spot the signals that precede a difficulty rather than those that merely record it
- Use a spreadsheet and an artificial intelligence assistant to read your figures without letting them dictate the conclusion
Programme
- Morning: Anticipating, not just observing: Profit, cash, order book: three horizons that are often confused · The three-month forecast: built on your own statements · Client concentration and seasonality: two simple calculations, two decisions
- Afternoon: The tool in the service of judgement: The minimal spreadsheet that survives the summer · Having an AI read your figures: what it sees, what it invents · Choosing your three indicators, and letting go of the others
Prerequisites
Have your bank statements and a spreadsheet.
What you take away
Your three-month cash flow forecast and your three indicators.