3 Months Runway Left !!
Aug 21, 2023UFO (MIKE):
WHAT DO YOU SAY TO YOUR CLIENTS WHO ONLY HAVE 3 MONTHS OF RUNWAY LEFT AHEAD OF THEM
DAN GILL CPA:
- Have you kept your financials up to date?
- Have you explored all your financing options?
- What are the biggest barriers to positive cash flow right now?
- Do you have an emergency plan?
UFO (BRIGITTE):
All of the above … and, zooming in on the emergency plan, they need to seriously ask themselves the question if they have solid grounds to continue their business? What do solid grounds continue to look like? For example, it would include a verifiable promise of funding or a verifiable sales pipeline that will convert into cash in time before doomsday … emphasis on verifiable…
And they should be already in acute conservation mode, they should have paid your employees and vendors what they owe them (to keep a good reputation in the market), and they should have already wound down their business down to the absolute minimum survival mode, so that they may be able to restart it when they get cash in.
If they do not have solid grounds to continue, the 3 months marker is time to finish paying what they owe and close operations. Closing operations may take at least 3 months if not more.
Please manage your finances so that you always have more than 3 months' runway to make these difficult decisions
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