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Analyzing Your Cash Flow


Someone once said, In a small business, cash flow is more important than your mother. Strong words, but without cash in the bank, you may be forced to make near-term decisions that can harm the long-term prospects of your company. Without cash you may be forced to delay hiring key employees, pay late charges, lose prompt-payment discounts, keep inadequate inventory, etc. Analyzing your cash flow is the first step in assuring a healthy stream of cash.

Before you can print the Cash Flow Analysis report, you need to run the Cash Flow Analysis. It can be found in the MYOB Analyst in the Banking Command Center. The first window is a worksheet. Enter the number of forecast days and review the worksheet. Add change or delete entries on the worksheet. When everything is complete click Analyze Cash Needs. To print the Cash Flow analysis report, click the Print button at the bottom of the window.

To make proper use of Cash Flow Analysis, FirstEdge needs to know about certain recurring transactions (recurring checks and recurring income). FirstEdge can then combine the recurring entries with any other entries in the Money In and Money Out columns of the Cash Flow Worksheet that you may have entered and project your account balance.

Check to see if your recurring transactions are entered:

For more information, see Cash Flow Analysis report

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