A business can end a fiscal year showing a solid profit but still find itself out of money. A business owner that focuses too much on profit and not enough on cash flow can be doomed to fail. Receipts ...

I was giving a keynote address to a group of medical practice business owners when one of the people in the room came up to me after and shared about his cash flow challenges. His practice was ...

U.S. Bank has launched a cash-flow forecasting tool for smaller commercial clients, the latest step in the Minneapolis bank's push to become a one-stop shop for the banking and payment needs of ...

Why forecasts are necessities for startups Experts advice on how to be conservative in your forecasts. The cash flow pro forma Business plans and financing proposals are based on projections. Past ...

Traditional banks have begun offering businesses of all sizes a tech tool that fintechs had developed for small firms: cash-flow forecasting, or anticipation of how money will flow into and out of a ...

A cash flow projection is an invaluable tool for understanding your business’s progress over a specific time period. It may cover upcoming months, weeks, or even just a few days. Financial planning is ...

New challenges and sophisticated technologies are quickly reshaping the role of financial consultants — from AI, cloud services, automation, big data analytics and workforce reshaping to open ...

When you make decisions on where and how to invest in your business, one of the factors guiding you will be incremental cash flow: how much additional cash your business will generate because of the ...

“With interest rates where they were for the last 20 years, everyone forgot how to cash forecast,” according to a senior Citi treasurer in its Top Treasury Priorities of 2024 report published in ...

While many business owners and entrepreneurs have a good grasp of the importance of sales and profit, they may not understand why it’s essential to stay on top of cash flow. Understanding operational ...

New tools and techniques, including AI and ML, are helping treasurers to optimize cash flow—and giving them a bigger role in strategic business decision making. Not that long ago, corporate ...

The economic uncertainties of the past few years have made cash forecasting far from an exact science—but it’s more important than ever. Regardless of size, location or sector, the ability to organize ...