Dashboard Spotlight: Cash Flow Projection
Focus: Projecting Excess Cash and/or Cash Shortages
The Cash Flow Projection report is one of the favorite dashboards – if not the favorite – of CFOs and their accounting teams. With just a glance, users can see upcoming expenses and revenues, as well as a chronological projection of their available cash.
Whether it’s to identify excess available cash, from which purchases and other investments can be made, or to anticipate (and prepare for) cash shortages – such as tapping into an organization’s line-of-credit, this report helps to eliminate financial ‘surprises’ – both good and bad.
Business Insights Provided by the Cash Flow Projection Dashboard
- Projected chronological cash flow totals ‘x’ days/weeks/months ahead
- Whether you need to reduce expenses to avoid shortages
- Whether you have available cash to invest in business growth and opportunities
- Where cash is being spent over the next ‘x’ days, weeks, or months
- Whether your A/R collections are trending up or down
- Whether sales are slowing or increasing
- Early visibility into unexpected (or unapproved) capital expenditures
- Which expenses are staying steady, and which are trending upwards
- Whether you can afford to bring on new staff . . . or have to let staff go
- Whether cash flow totals have dipped so low that you need to tap your organization’s line-of-credit
The report includes the following components:
KPIs: highlighting current & future total available cash
Totaled by: income (cash, A/R, sales), & expense (A/P, payroll, purchase orders)
Selectable by: date, branch, and transaction type (see previous)
Timeframe: selectable based on your specific needs
Drilldown to: transaction detail (doc number, date, transaction amount, accrued amount)
Special: dynamic chronological calculation of cash flow, optional cash flow adjustment
See the Cash Flow Projection dashboard in action here!
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