Understand the concept
Record opening cash and dated receipts, not booked revenue.
Teaching action
Ask the learner to restate the principle using their own example.
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Outcome: Maintain a 13-week cash forecast.
Review edition: This curriculum is open for inspection. It is not yet available for purchase, credentialing, or unsupervised instruction. Review cash assumptions and debt restrictions.
Record opening cash and dated receipts, not booked revenue.
Ask the learner to restate the principle using their own example.
Schedule supplier, payroll, tax, freight, and debt payments.
Work one case together and narrate the decision at each step.
Calculate weekly closing cash as opening plus inflows minus outflows.
Give the learner a new case; observe the process before offering a correction.
Reforecast each week and document what changed.
Request an independent explanation and ask which assumptions might change the result.
Forecast a retailer payment that arrives four weeks late.
Show weekly balances, the minimum cash week, and a response before cash runs out.
Accept a written, spoken, or accessible equivalent response when it demonstrates the same skill. Mark each criterion met, developing, or missing; never mark attendance alone as competency.
Primary source to review: Official topic guidance ↗
Content review: Review cash assumptions and debt restrictions.