Cash flow forecasting for a small business in Columbia, SC
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Know Your Cash Position 30, 60, and 90 Days Out

A profitable month and an empty bank account can be the same month — every growing business learns that eventually. Cash flow forecasting gives small business owners the view that ends the guessing: what's coming in, what's going out, and exactly when the two cross.

What We Offer

From Bank-Balance Guessing to a Working Forecast

Rolling cash flow forecastsa 30/60/90-day view, refreshed as invoices, payroll, and payments move. Not a spreadsheet you build once; a picture that stays current.
Budgets that get usedan operating budget tied to your real seasonality, reviewed against actuals monthly, so "over budget" is a conversation in week two, not a discovery in month six.
Receivables disciplineaging reviews, collection rhythms, and payment terms that stop your clients from quietly financing their business with your cash.
Timing the big movesequipment, hires, inventory buys, and tax payments placed where the forecast says they fit, instead of where hope does.
Why We Do It

The Bank Balance Was Never the Whole Story

Owners tell us cash is the thing that wakes them up — not sales, not competition, cash. The frustrating part is that the money usually exists; it's just tied up where they can't see it. Deposits out with suppliers, retainage held on finished work, receivables aging past forty days, tax payments landing in the same week as payroll. A forecast doesn't create cash. It shows you where yours is stuck — which is usually enough.

Results

What a 90-Day View Changes

Clients describe the same shift: decisions move earlier. A crunch visible six weeks out is a phone call; visible six days out, it's a crisis. Slow payers get addressed while the invoice is young. Growth spending lands in the months that can carry it. And the owner stops checking the bank app as a nervous habit — the forecast already answered the question.

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Who We Serve

Built for Businesses Where Timing Is the Hard Part

The contractor with deposits, draws, subs, and retainage moving on different calendars. The hospitality owner whose costs arrive daily but whose profit shows up in bursts. The practice owner funding payroll growth ahead of the revenue it will bring. If your question is less "are we profitable?" and more "why doesn't it feel like it?" — start here.

The 8 Furlong Approach

From First Look to Steady Rhythm

Understand — your inflows, outflows, terms, and seasonality as they actually behave. Prioritize — the two or three timing problems doing the real damage. Solve — the forecast, the budget, and the receivables routine, built and running. Measure — a monthly review where forecast meets actuals. Grow — when the cash picture is steady, pricing and margin work with our fractional CFO has solid ground to stand on.

Who You'll Work With

Forecasts From People Who See Your Whole Financial Picture

Melynda Wright, CPA, builds the forecasting discipline; Donna Lowe keeps the books it feeds current. Same team, same numbers, no translation loss.

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Take The First Step

Find Out Where Your Cash Is Hiding

Bring three months of statements to one conversation. We'll show you what a 90-day forecast of your business would have said — and what it would say now.

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