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Planning

Debtor days: why your cash flow problem is really a collection problem

You can be profitable, busy, and still short of cash, because the money is sitting in invoices nobody has paid yet. Debtor days is the number that tells you how long, and where to push.

Dash FP&A Desk15 September 20264 min read

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Planning

Thirteen weeks on one page

When cash is tight, a monthly forecast is the wrong resolution. The trouble almost always happens inside a month, in a week you did not look at.

Dash FP&A Desk2 June 20265 min read

Planning

Scenario planning without the spreadsheet sprawl

Every serious plan needs a downside and an upside. The problem is never the thinking. It is the ten near identical spreadsheets you end up maintaining.

Dash FP&A Desk30 May 20265 min read

Planning

Forty seven metrics, and nobody is looking

Dashboards grow by accretion. Somebody asks for a chart once, it stays forever, and eventually the page is so full that the two numbers that matter are impossible to find.

Dash Product Team30 April 20265 min read