Get the Boring Stuff Off Your Desk
Talk through a forecast
Make this your own. Replace the bracketed details, provide the relevant material and choose a result you can inspect.
Your starting prompt
Interview me one question at a time about [business idea] so we can build a [12]-month cash-flow forecast. Establish opening cash, income, costs and payment timing. Mark unknowns as assumptions, keep formulas visible, and show a base case plus slower-sales and higher-cost scenarios. Ask me to verify the inputs before treating the forecast as ready.
Before you call it finished
- Confirm opening cash.
- Separate sales from payment dates.
- Label unknowns and keep formulas editable.
- Check a slower-sales and a higher-cost scenario.
Your notes
My task:
My source material:
What I need to check:
My next step:
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