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Cash Flow Forecasting

Fast, easy cash flow forecasting. Automated actuals and reconciliation with budgets.

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Cash Flow Forecasting

Fast, easy cash flow forecasting. Automated actuals and reconciliation with budgets.

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Cash Flow Overview

Manage accurate project budgets and cash flow forecasting with reliable data. Use Mastt to see in real time how your project, program or portfolio is tracking across month to month in the classic 'S Curve'. Mastt allows you to:

  • Cash Flow Forecast & Performance: Forecast and measure your cash flow back to baselines and targets.
  • Incorporate Payments: Automatically incorporate actuals from payments when they are paid.
  • Charts and Visualizations: Visualize cash flow composition across committed, uncommitted, risk, and contingency categories.
  • Auto Reporting: Generate reports automatically for seamless communication and analysis.

What is Cash Flow Forecasting?

Cash Flow Forecasting is the process of estimating the amount of money that will flow in and out of a project over a specific period. It helps project managers anticipate financial needs, allocate resources effectively, and avoid cash shortages. By forecasting cash flow, teams can make informed decisions, plan for contingencies, and ensure financial stability throughout the project lifecycle.

Challenges managing Cash Flow

Common challenges we see when performing Cash Flow:

❌ Duplication of Effort: Constantly updating cash flow data for new contracts, commitments, risks or other forecasts is a waste of time.

❌Complicated Formulas: Inaccurate or complex formulas make visibility into cash flow make up impossible.

❌ Updating for Actuals: Incorporating what has been paid / actuals into the cash flow forecast is a painful manual reconciliation.

❌ Inaccurate Projections: Without visibility, cash flow projections are inaccurate and guarantee errors.

❌ What's Changed?: Comparing actual vs. forecasted vs baseline cash flow takes a good day or so!

❌ Charts: Preparing cash flow charts for financial years, calendar years, cumulative, non cumulative, select budgets etc, takes forever!

Errrrrm is this good use of time? Hope all the formulas are correct! 😅

Mastt Cash Flow Solutions

💡 ERP Data Integration: Integrate financial data from various sources for accurate forecasting, such as ERP.

💡 Automated Updates: Updates to contracts, risks or other uncommitted amounts is automatically translated into the cash flow.

💡 Customizable Reporting: Tailors reports to meet the specific needs of your project or portfolio.

💡 Total Visibility & Analytics: Nothing hidden behind complicated formulas, data at your fingertips.

Cash Flow Features

Mastt's simple, easy to use Cash Flow tools make getting started today a possibility.

🔵 Cash Flow Table & Forecast: Crisp, clean table of cash flow. Forecast budgets, contracts, variations, risks, and more into months and years.

🔵 Baseline Measurement: Set a cash flow baseline to measure progress.

🔵 Target Setting: Set a cash flow target to guide future planning.

🔵 Payments: Automatically incorporate actuals from payments when they are paid and 'close out' at month end.

🔵 Charts and Visualizations: Visualize cash flow composition across committed, uncommitted, risk, and contingency categories.

🔵 Flexible Ranges: Set any range for your forecasts. Configure charts to suit your reporting needs.

🔵 Auto Reporting: Generate reports automatically for seamless communication and analysis.

The fastest and easiest cash flow on the planet.

Cash Flow Best Practice

Mastt's simple, easy to use budget tools make it getting started today a possibility.

🟢 Monitoring Cash Flow: Regularly monitor and update cash flow projections based on actual expenses to identify lessons learned for future forecasting.

🟢 Account for Lag: Approvals in construction take time and delays are common, so adopt a conservative approach.

🟢 Balance Unassigned Cash Flow to Zero: Identify work elements not cash flowing and ensure all data is up to date.

🟢 Ensure Accurate Payment Tracking: Accurate payment data is essential to know what's left to spend, helping avoid double counting or incorrect assumptions about payments.

Step by Step Guides

Are you a Mastt user? For detailed information about this feature, please visit this Help Page article. You can also explore more articles at help.mastt.com.

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