Liquidity management and cash flow planning for entrepreneurs
The aim of this course is to give you a quick overview of the meaning and the elements of cash flow planning. The individual chapters summarise the most important points, including short videos, and are complemented by links to the COMMITLY Help Center and to in-depth articles. As a bonus there is a free eBook with tips & examples.
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Chapter 1 : Introduction to cash flow planning
A short introduction and an overview of the course. Balancing theory and practice, 2 min.
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Chapter 2 : Why do cash flow planning at all?
A summary of the most important points on what cash flow planning means for companies, entrepreneurs and managing directors. A collection of links to our theory sections.
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Chapter 3 : What quality should the result of cash flow planning have?
For all its pragmatism, a cash flow plan still has to meet certain minimum criteria. Cash flow planning as part of reporting, and how it differs from accounting.
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Chapter 4 : How do you create a cash flow plan?
Every one of us knows cash flow planning from our private lives. But how do you create one? On the basic approach to cash flow planning and on the approach taken by COMMITLY.
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Chapter 5 : Short-term cash flow planning using open items
The focus of the short-term view of liquidity is the management of open items. That limits the view, however, to the period covered by the payment terms of incoming and outgoing invoices. Includes a short video.
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Chapter 6 : What is the usual process in COMMITLY?
COMMITLY focuses on medium- to long-term cash flow planning. In a crisis in particular, long-term cash flow planning is indispensable and above all provides the urgently needed orientation. In the UK, a plan covering 36 months is even required in order to apply for support loans.
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Chapter 7 : Webinar on short-time work (in Austria)
For many Austrian companies, short-time work is one of the ways to cope with the liquidity shortages caused by lost revenue, supply chain bottlenecks, compliance with Corona protection measures and much more. But can Austrian companies really afford short-time work? COMMITLY partner FinancePartners explains how to create a cash flow plan with COMMITLY, using a simplified example for Austrian SMEs.
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Bonus: free eBook with tips & examples
Liquidity management is an essential management task for securing the survival of a company. So is digitalisation. In this book we give tips for efficient cash flow planning, benchmarks, and we let experts have their say.
