Before it's too late - Why should every business make weekly cash flow forecasts?

Do you know the financial health of your business? If you answered "no," you need to consider a weekly cash flow forecast. We're going to explore:

• What these forecasts are
• Why a 13-week cash flow forecast may not be enough
• How to do a weekly cash flow forecast
• Tools/services to make forecasts easy to generate

A weekly cash flow report/forecast breaks down your cash flow on a weekly basis. For example, you can view all income minus expenses for week two of 2022. These reports are very similar to a regular report, but it's filled with less information because the data is for a seven-day period.

Planning your business' future requires you to create weekly cash flow forecasts. Inflows and outflows occur each day, and a weekly forecast allows you to see a:

• Snapchat of liquidity each week
• Understand business financials on a granular level

Well-established businesses worry far less about cash flow because they've built up a steady stream of income over the years. However, new companies often ignore cash flow and end up riddled in debt and have to close operations.

Weekly forecasts empower your business because you always know how much free capital is available to hire new employees, make new commitments, or advertise to potential clients. If you don't leverage cash flow properly, you may make decisions that stall business growth and lead to eventual closure.

Honestly, cash flow is a crucial measure of a business's financial health. From businesses just opening their doors to the world's largest companies, cash flow is crucial in keeping operations going smoothly.

However, there are a few times when running weekly reports may be in your best interest:

• You run a startup or just opened your business
• Cash flow has been low in recent years
• You're running out of startup capital

When cash flow is low, you won't be able to cover your bills and overhead adequately. Additionally, you'll struggle to expand and grow because you don't have the liquidity to take advantage of growth opportunities. If you're running negative cash flow, your only option is to seek financing and outside capital to keep your business operational.

While large corporations are always concerned with cash flow, it's even more important for small businesses trying to secure market share in an industry and keep their doors open.

Creating a weekly cash flow forecast is possible in a few ways:

• Work with your accountant to generate weekly reports
• Use templates to generate reports
• Use an online tool, like Cash Flow Frog, to generate reports automatically

Manually creating forecasts is possible, and it's a measure of all cash coming in and going out of a business each week. But when you generate reports manually, it's a very time-consuming process that demands a lot of resources.

Ideally, you'll use a third-party tool to help create your forecasts for you.

Cash Flow Frog is designed from the ground up to show you the most crucial cash flow data in minutes. You can use our online platform to rapidly generate reports and forecasts to learn more about your cash flow.

We also help you gain insight into your best customers based on how long it takes them to pay their invoices.

Slow payments mean that you have a cash flow bottleneck because the work is done or the product is delivered, yet you're still not paid. Cash flow only counts when money is exchanged - i.e., the invoice is paid.

How it works

Cash Flow Frog is fast and easy to use:

• Sign up for an account
• Integrate to your business's accounting platform, such as QuickBooks or Xero
• Run your report

We make it as simple as possible to run weekly, 13-week, monthly and even annual forecasts. If you want to learn the truth about your cash flow, Cash Flow Frog is the best solution.

Our advantages

There are many reasons to use Cash Flow Frog:

• Seamless integration with leading accounting software
• Branded reports
• Wealth of forecast options
• VAT/GST calculations
• Detailed customer insights
• So much more

If you want to create next-generation cash flow forecasts, Cash Flow Frog can help you immediately. Sign up today to get started.

Cash Flow Frog allows you to create branded reports for your business. Whether you work as an accountant for businesses and need to show them a forecast of their cash flow or you work in HR and need a branded report, you can quickly and easily generate them with our platform.

Weekly cash flow forecasts are crucial to your business's operations. If you're missing growth opportunities because of a lack of liquidity or are having issues paying expenses, weekly forecasts can help you gain insight into your company's financial health each week.