Cash Saving Strategy

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Amir Saif amirsaiftaz@gmail.com

Cash saving strategy

Management series

Inspiration from Management Article

Cash is a King

We will walk through the tools and strategies we need to

survive the current downturn and to improve our competitive

position

How to save cash?

What is latest Survival strategy?

What to do?

Understand and realize

Cash is King

Why cash is everything?

Until recently, most senior executives regarded managing cash flow and

liquidity as tactical functions, a mundane set of activities left to

administrative managers.

No more.

As the global financial crisis has choked off credit, cash

management has become strategic.

Companies with weak operating cash flows are finding it more

difficult to secure outside funding, just when flows are harder than

ever to generate.

The resulting cash pinch can threaten the largest global

players.

A critical first step in such cash-flow discipline is adopting a 13-week tool that shows what's flowing into and out of each business segment on a

weekly and monthly basis.

The idea is to capture real-time information on flows and

compare them with budgeted amounts.

Persistent variances signal fast-emerging problems in product lines,

customer channels and vendor relations problems that can be addressed before it is too late.

Cash flow Plan

• 13 Week cash flow tool builds a short term view of how cash flows through the business

• It also provides a foundation for long-term downside scenarios that trigger action

Cash flow Plan

13 Week cash flow tool builds a shortTerm view of how cash flows throughthe business

It also provides a foundation for long Term downside scenarios that triggeraction

• Give cash position on a weekly basis

• Tracks cash inflows and outflows directly through bottom-up construction

• Provides the ability to report actual vs budget variances each week

• Permits situation specific forecasting, including store, selling lines of business and reducing headcount.

• Reveals how much cash is necessary to preserve and protect the business under different conditions

• Identifies choke points and opportunities to improve processes

• Highlights differences in efficiency between product lines, customer channels and vendor relationships

• Provides a powerful understanding of which rivals are vulnerable, which customers are strongest and which vendors might not survive.

This plan can show how much cash need to protect the business under different

conditions.

Many senior executives have also begun to model downside

scenarios informed by cash flow and liquidity measures.

The value of this approach builds with time.

From marketing standpoint, the desk was a big win. But from a cash flow perspective, it was a

nightmare.

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