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Rolling 13-week cash forecast

Inputs: opening bank balance, expected collections and scheduled payments. Illustrative amounts in thousands of rand. Updated weekly after reconciliation and review of payment timing.

Judgement: collection dates are assumptions, not guarantees. If the week-two receipt of 45 arrives in week four, cash at the end of week three falls from 95 to 50. Review the funding gap before approving discretionary spend.

Monthly management reporting pack

Inputs: reconciled ledger, approved budget and prior-period balances. Refreshed monthly after close. Management approves commentary before board or investor circulation.

Decision note: operating profit is 8 below budget. Review sales mix and direct-cost assumptions before changing the next forecast. The actual operating margin is 16.7%, versus a budget of 21.5%.

Receivables exception alert

Synthetic example: invoice DEMO-104, amount R45,000, unpaid 18 days after its due date. An overdue threshold flags it in the agreed collections workflow.

Inputs: invoice due date, settlement status and latest bank reconciliation. Check after each successful data refresh. Finance reviews possible payments in transit and assigns the account owner before contacting the customer. Duplicate alerts and data failures need explicit handling.

Action: confirm whether it will be collected this week, update the forecast assumption and agree who follows up. An alert supports a decision, it does not send a message or authorise payment.