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Do you know the 5 Steps to Manage your Cash Flow? In Finance: 🎯Your Cash in always King. 🎯Your Resources are always Constrained. 🎯Your Objective is to invest available cash and maximize Value. So here is How to Manage Cash Flow for Value Maximization: 1️⃣ Understand your operating cash inflows and outflows 2️⃣ Calculate the Cash Conversion Cycle (CCC) 3️⃣ Optimize each of the 3 components of the CCC 4️⃣ Finance the CCC using the most appropriate source of capital 5️⃣ Monitor and Repeat The Cash Conversion Cycle measures how long a company’s cash is tied up in net working capital. Here’s the formula to calculate the Cash Conversion Cycle (CCC): ➕the average number of days required to sell inventory (days inventory outstanding or DIO) ➕the average number of days to receive cash from credit sales (days sales outstanding or DSO) ➖the average number of days suppliers wait for your cash payment (days payable outstanding or DPO) And here’s the CCC formula broken down into its sub-components: ➕Average Inventory Balance / Purchases (or COGS as proxy) x 365 ➕Average Receivables Balance / Credit Sales x 365 ➖Average Payables Balance / Purchases (or COGS as proxy) x 365 🎯 The tricky part about the CCC is optimizing it. Why? ⚫ Because you need to minimize the DIO, but also avoid stock outs ⚫ Because you need to minimize the DSO, but also avoid turning away customers ⚫ Because you need to maximize the DPO, but also avoid damaging supplier relationships 🎯 Once you’ve calculated your Cash Conversion Cycle and you have optimized its components, it’s time to focus on Financing. 🎯 Your Cash Conversion Cycle can be financed with Internal Capital - but only as long as there aren’t any other competing uses with higher ROI for those cash resources. 🎯 If there are competing projects with a higher ROI potential, the financing of the net inventory and accounts receivable balances during their conversion periods usually needs External Capital. 🎯 Cash Flow Management should be part of your corporate culture, so once your financing plan is in place, proceed to monitor and repeat on a monthly basis. What would you add? -------------------------------------- 💎 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 my free newsletter - The Finance Gem 💎 and get my unabbreviated Linkedin post content and other finance gems delivered straight to your inbox >>(𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗶𝗻 my Linkedin profile & below in 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀) ➕ Follow me for more finance, business, and cash flow insights. 🔔 Ring the bell at the top right of my profile so you don't miss out on new posts. #entrepreneur #finance #business
This is great. Super useful right now. Don't forget relationships are also very important. Sometimes you'll get it wrong. Customers & suppliers can be forgiving if you have invested time in them. And get better at your CCC!
Very useful , but first , make sure your business is earning a reasonable profit. Even the greatest cash flow management won’t help if your fundamentals are out of whack.
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