Business Planning & Forecasting

Cashflow forecasting and budgeting are essential for business planning. It helps you learn about your financial trends and patterns; highlight impeding problems; facilitate robust business even in a tough economic environment; support growth planning and builds investor confidence.

Many start-up and small business owners face challenges on budgeting and cash flow related tasks including:

Cashflow and poor financial analysis – it can be very hard for businesses to keep tight control on cashflow management and produce timely and insightful financial analysis for management.

Irregular financial reports – having financial reports that doesn’t match up, construct accurate picture, or have wrong and misinterpreting information can be a huge problem.

Investor readiness – where a business is looking to attract investments or funding; ensuring all accounts, business and financial plans are accurate and up to date can be a painful task.

Cash is the lifeblood of any business and access to enough cash to meet needs is essential for survival. Many successful businesses with excellent product, service and business strategy, unfortunately often fail due to a cash shortfall or cash crunch. In some cases, this is difficult to avoid but mostly, a clear financial plan and strategy supported by robust monitoring and financial risk analysis can guarantee success. Approaching a bank with no or poor cash flow forecasts, no or an inadequate budget and lack of planning and strategy may well raise a big “red flag” for that bank and result in significantly reduced chances of securing finance.

We can help you ensure that your budgets and cashflow forecasts are up-to-date, for you to analyse the information on time, and spot trends or issues as early as possible. Our team can help you with any ad-hoc financial reports and financial analysis that you may need for financial planning or investor readiness.