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13-Week Cash Flow Forecasting

13-Week Cash Flow Forecasting

Accurate 13-week cash flow forecasts are crucial for financial health—particularly for PE-backed companies who need to gauge near-term cash and liquidity. These forecasts often line up surprise-free, but they can also serve as an early warning bell, alerting you to potential liquidity issues before they become emergencies.

Our experts combine an operational finance lens with a technical approach to build robust 13-week cash flow forecast models that generate forward-looking insights. Working hands-on with your management team, we uncover potential liquidity concerns and unlock trapped value—minimizing costly surprises and ensuring proactive business decision-making.
PAIN POINT

Inability to make informed business decisions without real-time visibility into cash and utilization of invested capital.

What Accordion brings:
Anticipate surprises.
Build rigorous 13-week cash and liquidity forecasts to anticipate upcoming events and avoid surprises.
Enable better business decisions.
Link cash and liquidity forecasts with business outlook and debt compliance to provide clarity to stakeholders for strategic decision-making.
Enhance efficiency.
Implement efficient processes and enable weekly updates using automated or standardized templates.
PAIN POINT

Financial instability due to liquidity issues masked by accrual accounting practices.

What Accordion brings:
Uncover buried liquidity issues.
Focus on actual cash movement (direct method) to uncover liquidity issues before they become urgent.
Understand working capital.
Identify changes in working capital funding requirements.
Improve debt management strategies.
Connect the dots between borrowed funds and profitability to make informed decisions about debt management.
PAIN POINT

Stakeholder misalignment due to inadequate/inconsistent communication about cash and liquidity outlook.

What Accordion brings:
Establish cash flow reference point.
Ensure common reference point so all stakeholders understand company’s cash position and financial health.
Drive stakeholder alignment.
Create alignment and accountability across the organization with weekly process, responsibility, communication, and variance tracking.
Look forward.
Connect debt covenants with balance sheet to generate a “forward view” that allows proactive communication with stakeholders and creates greater confidence in management planning.
We consistently create value for the world’s most sophisticated private equity firms and their portfolio companies.
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We consistently create value for the world’s most sophisticated private equity firms and their portfolio companies.
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Meet a few
of our experts.

Sanjeev Parlikar
Sanjeev Parlikar
Senior Managing Director

Sanjeev is a Senior Managing Director with over two decades of experience in corporate and operational finance, M&A, and strategic advisory. He focuses on the growth and development of our Strategic Finance Practice, managing client relationships, leading projects – and always on driving value creation for our clients. Sanjeev has also led numerous complex M&A and financing transactions for global corporations and private...

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Zach Chandis
Zach Chandis
Managing Director

Zach is a Managing Director with over 15 years of advisory, financial, and operational experience with companies across a range of industries including transportation, pharmaceuticals, software, technology, industrials, energy, construction & manufacturing, business services, consumer, telecom, and media. Zach is differentiated by his experience in several areas of finance: private equity, special situations, investment banking,...

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Jeremy Pawlak
Jeremy Pawlak
Managing Director

Jeremy is a Managing Director who has cross-functional experience working with executive teams in the areas of finance, accounting, operations, and strategy.  Jeremy is a CFA Charterholder and Certified Corporate FP&A Professional.

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Marc Passalacqua
Marc Passalacqua
Managing Director

Marc is a Managing Director with over two decades of finance, strategy, advisory, interim management, and performance improvement experience at both middle market and large corporate companies. He specializes in assisting companies elevate their finance and treasury functions.

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