What Vanward calculates
Weekly receipts, payments, opening and ending cash and revolver movements.
The method
- Place dated and recurring receipts and disbursements into thirteen weekly buckets. Apply the supplied collection and payment assumptions for aging items.
- For scenarios, opening cash plus receipts less disbursements plus revolver draws less paydowns equals ending cash. Carry ending cash into the next week. Work in cents and apply the entered revolver limits and minimum cash policy.
- For the cash grid, sum positive weekly cells as inflows and negative cells as outflows using whole integer cents. Opening cash plus net inflows equals ending cash; ending cash less the entered minimum equals cushion. Payment suggestions remain separate until added to the grid.
What the company decides
Opening cash, collection timing, payment dates, recurrence, scenario adjustments, borrowing availability and minimum cash. These inputs and judgments are outside the guarantee.
Where it shows in Vanward
13-week cash scenarios, cash grid and exported forecasts.
Method change log
- 2026-11-09 · 1.0 published