A CFO pack every month · Lesson 4 of 8
Every month, your pack
1:06 · Captions: English, Arabic, French and Chinese.
Month end is when an owner is busiest — and when the numbers matter most.
What you'll learn
- Read the monthly pack
- Find the cash and the customers
- Take the files where you need them
Step by step
- August's pack, provisional — August was a busy month, and Salma didn't lock it in time. Her pack still comes on the day — marked provisional, so she knows which figures can still move.
- Three numbers — Three numbers, each against last month, and what changed.
- Six months of cash — Cash today, the lowest week in the next six months, and what drives it — including the project work she's won but not yet billed.
- Who buys, who pays slowly — A new developer, Palmgate, is already one of her biggest customers. And because her schools are marked as government in her Contact Book, it can show what she suspected: they take about four months to pay, the others about five weeks.
- How each number was worked out — Every number in the pack traces back to her books. The report shows how each one was worked out — nothing is a guess dressed up as a fact.
- The files — The deck opens in PowerPoint if she wants to change it; the workbook goes to her accountant.
A week after the close day, every month — without a finance team. Next: the actions.