Cashflow Forecast

Achieve your business goals with precise cashflow forecasting

Cashflow Forecasts

They say in business ‘cash is king’, which makes a healthy cashflow the life blood of a successful business. A cashflow forecast provides a 12-month guide to the last year or few years of trading history. It helps to build up an accurate picture of trading peaks and troughs, such as seasonal activity and buying trends.

We prepare and maintain cashflow forecasts to help businesses identify future payments and income in advance. If you know when funds are moving in and out of your business, you can plan budgets accordingly. A business with good cashflow practices should never run the risk of becoming insolvent.

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Helping you achieve your goals

A cashflow forecast is a working document and is best reviewed and updated on a monthly basis. Our team will work with you to agree a schedule to meet your business needs. Once we’ve prepared the cashflow document, we will sit down with you to explain the details and what it all means. Together we’ll look at the actuals against variance and discuss the reasons behind the figures. We’ll never just hand you the figures without any explanation.

Cashflow forecasting is vital for all businesses, but especially those that invest heavily in resources like materials, equipment and staff. We work with several retailers and manufacturing clients to produce cashflow forecasts, which they use to inform business discussions around planning and investment. Ultimately, a healthy cashflow helps businesses to achieve their long-term goals.

The benefits of cashflow forecasting

  • Regain control over funds coming in and out of your business.
  • Enables you to budget in advance for large bills, e.g. insurance and tax.
  • Helps identify purchasing trends and realistic solutions to poor cashflow.
  • Strike a balance between short-term cashflow needs and long-term expectations.

Common payroll questions

We’ll need to see evidence of all your business expenditure and overheads, including wages, rent, cost of capital and materials, plus any forecast expenditure for the coming year. We’ll also ask for proof of sales and any other forms of income such as loans or grants.

For most of our clients, cashflow forecasting forms part of a wider package of accounting support, however like all our services, cashflow is available as a standalone service.

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