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13-Week Cash Flow Forecast: Will Your Cash Last?
Plenty of profitable businesses still run out of cash. Customers pay late, a big stock order lands in the wrong week, and suddenly the bank balance is the problem, not the profit.
This forecast shows it coming, week by week, for the next 13 weeks.
Set your opening cash, sales, growth, costs and ad spend, and choose how quickly customers pay you. The dashboard draws your cash balance week by week, marks the lowest point, and tells you in one plain-English sentence whether you’re safe or heading below zero.
It’s a simplified demo with sample data. For a real business I build the forecast around your own sales, payment terms and costs, in the format your bank or investor expects.
If you’d like a cash flow forecast for your numbers, send me a message.
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An earthy olive green gradient with lime yellow highlights, soft blur photos, and clean, light typography for a fresh and outdoorsy first impression.
A milestone ruler, a route map with distance, pace, and time, records for blood oxygen, speed, and heart rate, plus a simple session setup with distance, time, and intensity make every run easy to plan and track. Fine tick marks, soft cards, and a floating tab bar keep the whole app calm and easy to use.
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A client asked me last week: “Why is there still a balance sitting in prepaid? I already paid all of it.”
Fair question. Honestly, it’s one of the most common things business owners get confused about.
Here’s how I explained it. When you pay your trade licence for the year, that money has left your bank. But you haven’t used the whole year yet. So the unused part isn’t an expense yet. It’s something you’ve paid for and still own, like a credit waiting to be used.
Say you pay 10,350 for a 12 month licence. Each month, 862.50 moves into expenses. Whatever hasn’t been used by 31 December stays on the balance sheet as prepaid.
The client still wasn’t fully getting it from the schedule alone, so I broke it down year by year. 2020, 2021, 2022. Same prepayments, just showing how much was used and how much was still left at each year end.
That’s when it clicked for them.
The visa, shared desk, insurance and licence costs all work the same way. Pay now, use over time, expense a little each month.
If your accountant keeps saying “prepaid” and you nod along, ask them to show you a schedule like this. It’s your money, you should be able to see where it is.
This is part of my contra series, where I explain accounting without the jargon.
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Great explanation! Breaking prepayments down year by year makes it much easier for business owners to understand how their money is accounted for and why balances remain on the balance sheet.
Designed the new StyleRef landing page.
Drop three photos in, and the page pulls one style out of them: colour, material and camera rules, written as a spec you can paste into any AI tool.
The page shows it happening instead of explaining it.
See it in action → StyleRef.io
Using the actual extracted spec makes the demonstration much more useful. Showing the three source images beside one generated result would let visitors judge what the tool preserves, rather than relying on the animation alone. That input-to-output comparison can answer the main buying question quickly.
