Free template
The 13-week
cash flow forecast.
Profit and cash are not the same thing, and the gap is where good companies get into trouble. Thirteen weeks is long enough to see a squeeze coming and short enough to stay accurate. This is the template we build for clients, ready to open in Excel or Google Sheets.
What's inside
- The full weekly structure: beginning cash, receipts, disbursements, net, ending cash, revolver
- The disbursement lines operators forget until they hurt (taxes, insurance, debt service, capex)
- The four-step weekly discipline that turns a spreadsheet into foresight
- Works in Excel and Google Sheets (CSV, no macros, no lock-in)
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Download the template (CSV)How to use it
- Fill week 1 from your bank balance and known receipts and payments. Estimate weeks 2 to 13; rough is fine.
- Every Monday, replace last week's forecast with actuals and note the three biggest misses.
- Add a new week 14 so the horizon never shrinks.
- If any week goes negative, act now, while you have weeks of warning instead of days.
The background reading: what a 13-week forecast actually catches. If you want it built and running against your numbers, start a conversation.