Cash flow: where SME money actually gets stuck
In almost every business we open up, the cash is in one of four places — slow-moving stock, customers who have learnt they can pay late, tax and input credits that were calculated wrong, or an inter-company arrangement that nobody has reviewed in years.
We map your cash conversion cycle end to end: the day you pay for material against the day you get paid for the finished goods. Then we move the dates so they stop colliding.
- Receivables: ageing by customer and salesperson, credit limits, and a collection routine that runs weekly
- Inventory: SKU-level ranking by movement and margin, so slow stock gets cleared instead of counted
- Payables: a payment calendar that protects vendor relationships without funding them out of your overdraft
- Short and medium-term forecasts, refreshed monthly, that make bank conversations calm instead of urgent