Financial PlanningForecasting the funding a plan will actually need.Accounting & FinanceBuilding a funding forecast.1Forecast revenueBy volume and price, with the assumptions written down.2Derive the cost baseVariable costs by driver, fixed costs by step.3Project working capitalReceivables, inventory and payables move with revenue.4Add capital expenditureThe assets the plan requires and their timing.5Build the cash flowMonth by month, to find the low point, not the year end.6Size the facilityFund the trough with headroom, not the average.Annual figures hide the trough. A business can end each year in surplusand still run out of cash in month seven.Financial Planninglearnposters.com
Financial Planning — printable business wall chart from LearnPosters. Free vector PDF, US Letter and A4.

Financial Planning, step by step

Building a funding forecast.

  1. Forecast revenueBy volume and price, with the assumptions written down.
  2. Derive the cost baseVariable costs by driver, fixed costs by step.
  3. Project working capitalReceivables, inventory and payables move with revenue.
  4. Add capital expenditureThe assets the plan requires and their timing.
  5. Build the cash flowMonth by month, to find the low point, not the year end.
  6. Size the facilityFund the trough with headroom, not the average.

Annual figures hide the trough. A business can end each year in surplus and still run out of cash in month seven.

Questions about the Financial Planning poster

What’s on the Financial Planning poster?
6 numbered steps. Building a funding forecast. Forecast revenue — By volume and price, with the assumptions written down.; Derive the cost base — Variable costs by driver, fixed costs by step.; Project working capital — Receivables, inventory and payables move with revenue.; Add capital expenditure — The assets the plan requires and their timing.; Build the cash flow — Month by month, to find the low point, not the year end.; Size the facility — Fund the trough with headroom, not the average.. Annual figures hide the trough. A business can end each year in surplus and still run out of cash in month seven.
Who is the Financial Planning poster for?
Financial Planning belongs to the Accounting & Finance section rather than to a school year, because business is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning corporate finance can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
When should you use the Financial Planning poster?
Growth consumes cash. A fast-growing firm can run out while profitable. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Financial Planning belongs on the wall where that business work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
What other posters go with Financial Planning?
Behavioural Finance, Capital Structure and CAPM sit alongside Financial Planning in the Accounting & Finance section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Behavioural FinanceCapital StructureCAPM
Is the Financial Planning poster free to download and print?
Yes. Financial Planning downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Accounting & Finance section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
What size does the Financial Planning poster print at?
Financial Planning is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Financial Planning loses nothing.Printing guide

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