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Cash Flow Forecast

A fully interactive 12-month cash flow forecast with scenarios

£20

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Cash Flow Forecast

Overview

Profitable businesses still run out of cash – customers pay late, VAT and tax bills land in the same month, a new hire starts or a big purchase goes through. This workbook turns your sales, costs and payment habits into a month-by-month forecast of your bank balance for the next 12 months. It shows the lowest point and when it happens, warns you if you'll dip below your safety buffer or past your overdraft, and lets you test Optimistic and Pessimistic scenarios and quick 'what-ifs' without touching your base figures.

Price
£20
Who it’s for
Planning & Finance
Works with
Microsoft Excel for Windows and Mac
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See how it works

A walk through the main sheets

The sheets you will use most, in the order you will use them – shown with the sample data every workbook comes with.

Step 1

Assumptions

The base-case figures: sales, cost of sales, payroll, overheads, money owed at the start, regular payments and one-off items. What you do: fill in every yellow cell that applies.

Assumptions
Scenarios

Step 2

Scenarios

What Base, Optimistic and Pessimistic mean, as adjustments to the base figures. What you do: edit the yellow cells or rename the scenarios.

Step 3

Workings

The calculation engine – one block for your selected scenario and one each for Base, Optimistic and Pessimistic. What you do: nothing – no need to edit.

Workings

Step 4

Who it is for

Made for people like you

  • Example – text
  • Owner-managed limited companies – Cash after wages, PAYE, VAT, corporation tax, dividends and loan repayments.
  • Sole traders and partnerships – The same forecast with drawings in place of dividends (and no VAT if not registered).
  • Businesses planning a change – The cash effect of a new hire, a price change, a big purchase or slower-paying customers.
  • Anyone talking to a bank or lender – A clear 12-month forecast with scenarios to support a funding request.

Quick start

Up and running in minutes

  1. Example – text
  1. Settings – At the top of the Forecast sheet enter the business name, the first month of the forecast, today's bank balance, your overdraft limit, the minimum cash buffer you want to keep and whether you're VAT registered.
  2. Sales – On Assumptions enter each revenue stream's sales for the first month (ex VAT), its monthly growth, the seasonality pattern, and how quickly customers pay.
  3. Costs – Enter cost of sales as a % of sales and how quickly suppliers are paid; each payroll role; and each overhead with how often it's paid and whether VAT is added.
  4. Money owed at the start – Enter what customers owe you now, what you owe suppliers, VAT owed for the last quarter and VAT built up so far this quarter.
  5. Regular and one-off items – Enter monthly dividends or drawings, loan repayments, then any one-off items (tax bills, equipment, loans in, grants) in the month they'll happen.
  6. Read the Forecast – Check the headline tiles, status and summary, then the charts and the month-by-month table. Try the Pessimistic scenario and a few what-ifs to see how much room you have.

Key features

  • Month-by-month receipts, payments and closing bank balance.
  • Customer payment terms, VAT, payroll, loans and one-off items handled automatically.
  • Best, expected and worst-case scenarios side by side.
  • Warnings when the bank balance drops below your safety buffer or overdraft limit.

What’s included

  • Forecast – The 12-month forecast
  • Assumptions – Your inputs
  • Scenarios – What-if comparisons
  • Guide – Full user manual
  • Workings – Calculation engine – no need to edit

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