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The Fear of Changing Banks

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Financial Needs – Understand your financial needs. If you have a cash flow forecast, make sure that all your cash needs are shown on it, and that you have projected out your needs for more than the typical 13-week forecast. How often are they going to want financial reports?

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Budgeting for Analysis

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The budgeting process laid bare the issues the company had been facing but management had been ignoring. The owner loaned additional money to the company to shore up cash needs. Develop a cash flow forecast. Improve cash visibility by instituting a daily cash report showing the ins and outs of company operations.

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Internal Controls

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The cash receipts journal should match bank deposits. Any credit memos should be approved by management. Cash Management. He didn’t understand where the cash was going. Develop a cash flow forecast, identifying cash to be received and cash expenditures each week. Recommendation.