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Cash timing, not just cash level.

And the one question no dashboard can answer: why is the forecast worse than Monday?

Cash timing

Knowing your cash balance is easy. Knowing when cash will land, and how sure you are, is what a CFO actually needs. The Business Ledger shows money coming in from customers and going out to vendors, laid out forward in time, each piece with a confidence that moves as SAP moves.

The delta

A dashboard shows you a number. When the number gets worse, it cannot tell you why.

The ledger keeps every change as an entry. So you can compare any two moments and see exactly what moved: which orders slipped, which payments came late, which holds were applied, and who or what caused each.

"Why is the forecast worse than Monday, and who caused it?" is a question the ledger answers directly.

Why is the forecast worse than Monday? Two cash forecast lines over the next eight weeks. The line from Monday is higher than the line from now. The gap between them is shaded and explained on the right: three orders slipped a week, one customer payment came late, one credit hold was applied. W1 W2 W3 W4 W5 W6 W7 W8 Next eight weeks Cumulative net cash Forecast as of Monday Forecast now Moved since Monday 3 orders slipped by a week 1 payment from a customer, late 1 credit hold applied to an account each opens in SAP

Ask why three times

A CFO asks why three times. The first answer is a customer. The second is an order. The third has to be a real SAP document you can open. In the Business Ledger it is.

Ask why three times and land on a real SAP document A chain of five steps from a cash position, to a customer, to an order, to a delivery, to the SAP document itself, with the question Why between each step. Ask why three times. Land on a real SAP document. Cash position next month Customer who is late Order what slipped Delivery not yet shipped SAP document open it in SAP Why? Why? Why? Every step is an entry in the ledger, and every entry links to the document behind it.

Both sides of cash

Receivables and payables sit in the same ledger, so cash in and cash out are read together, not stitched together.

What this is, and is not

It is a fast, honest view of what is likely to happen to cash and why.

It is not your financial close. The forecast is management information. What has actually happened is SAP's own values, drillable to the document.

See it

Orders and deliveries by day around an as-of line, beside weekly cash in from sales and cash out to purchasing
Cash and the order cycle

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Start with the data. Add the answers when you want them.

And the one question no dashboard can answer: why is the forecast worse than Monday?

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