Dashboard

Runway, cash on hand, and the trend that matters — your financial overview, up top.

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The dashboard answers the three questions that get asked most, in the order they get asked: how much cash is there, how long does it last, and which way is it moving.

The numbers

•Cash on hand — your anchored balance from the latest sync. Everything else counts up and down from this, so it is the number to sanity-check first.

•Runway — how many months the current forecast says that cash lasts. Not a fixed figure: it moves with every actual that arrives and every decision you model.

•Net burn / profit — the recent trend. Burn is what leaves after what arrives; the trend matters more than the month.

Reading runway honestly

Runway is a projection, and it inherits every assumption underneath it. Two things distort it more than anything else:

•Periodic payments not yet modelled. A quarterly VAT settlement or an annual renewal that has not been entered as a contract makes runway look longer than it is. See Contracts & Subscriptions.

•A revenue line still on its historical default. If revenue is seasonal or growing, a trailing average carries the wrong number forward in both directions.

A runway that has not moved in weeks usually means the forecast is not being fed, not that the business is unusually stable.

Every card links through to the page behind it, so you can go from a headline number to the line that produced it in one click — which is the fastest way to find out why a number changed.

Working with runway day by day rather than as a monthly headline is cash flow planning.

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