INDUSTRY CAPSTONE
Cash-Flow Forecast & Early-WarningSystem for an SME
Create a rolling cash-flow forecast that combines receivables, payables, recurring costs, and scenario assumptions, then adds anomaly/threshold alerts for liquidity risk.
Portfolio Project
Decision Making
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Duration2 Weeks
DeliverySelf Paced + Mentor Review
LevelIntermediate (Applied Finance Analytics)
ResourcesTransaction dataset, forecast workbook, scenario assumptions
Professional Capability Objective
Create a rolling cash-flow forecast that combines receivables, payables, recurring costs, and scenario assumptions, then adds anomaly/threshold alerts for liquidity risk. The capstone is designed around a build-and-validate workflow so the learner produces working evidence, not only conceptual recommendations.
Industry Challenge
Founders often discover liquidity pressure too late because accounting reports describe the past. A useful cash tool should combine forecast uncertainty with clear intervention thresholds.
Your analysis must consider:
- ▶Separate committed, expected, and uncertain cash movements.
- ▶Forecast recurring and variable cash flows.
- ▶Build base, delayed-receipts, and high-cost scenarios.
- ▶Detect deviations between forecast and actual cash movement.
- ▶Define minimum cash and runway trigger levels.
- ▶Translate alerts into concrete actions such as collections, payment timing, or spending review.
Why Employers Value This
Demonstrates your ability to:
- ▶Build a rolling cash forecast.
- ▶Use scenarios and uncertainty in liquidity planning.
- ▶Detect unusual cash movements and forecast variance.
- ▶Design decision triggers for founders.
- ▶Define minimum cash and runway trigger levels.
- ▶Translate alerts into concrete actions such as collections, payment timing, or spending review.
Skills You'll Develop
Cash-flow modeling
Model expected inflows and outflows, monitor runway, and connect forecasts to clear management triggers.
Time-series forecasting
Prepare historical data, model patterns over time, and translate forecasts into practical decisions.
Scenario analysis
Represent uncertainty explicitly and use ranges or scenarios to support more resilient planning.
Liquidity thresholds
Choose operating thresholds that balance missed events, false alerts, capacity, and business consequences.
Variance tracking
Compare actual, forecast, prior-period, or plan values and identify movements that materially need attention.
Professional Portfolio Deliverables
13-Week Cash Forecast
A rolling forecast model with expected inflows, outflows, and ending cash.
Liquidity Early-Warning Dashboard
Alerts for projected shortfalls, delayed receipts, unusual outflows, and forecast variance.
Founder Action Plan
Prioritized actions tied to trigger thresholds and scenario outcomes.
Industry-Recognized Certificate
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What You Will Learn
- Build a rolling cash forecast.
- Use scenarios and uncertainty in liquidity planning.
- Detect unusual cash movements and forecast variance.
- Design decision triggers for founders.
Program Delivery & Engagement: 4 Stages
STAGE 1
Capstone Kick-off
Prepare cash data and assumptions.
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STAGE 2
Build & Analysis
Build 13-week forecast and scenarios.
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STAGE 3
Practitioner Review
Add variance/anomaly alerts and action thresholds.
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STAGE 4
Final Submission & Demo
Present a founder-ready liquidity dashboard and plan.
Completion standard: submit the working artifact, evaluation evidence, limitations, and a short final presentation. The certificate should reflect demonstrated capability rather than content consumption alone.
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