Cash improvement and liquidity management

Our cash management experts are helping organisations to improve and optimise their cash position, enabling them to create capital for further growth and transformation.

More than half of the companies in our ‘Act Now: From recovery to growth’ survey anticipate a liquidity shortfall in the next 12 months. In light of the volatility and uncertainty in the current macro environment, for many businesses the need for visibility, planning and control over short and medium term cash will be paramount to prevent real cash crises from crystallising over the next few years.

Based on our experience of working with companies to improve their cash and liquidity, CEOs, CFOs, treasurers or shareholders are likely to identify the following challenges:

• unreliable cash flow reporting and forecasting;
• difficulty in reliable scenario planning;
  
• absence of a cash focus and a cash conscious culture across all areas of the business to optimise cash;
• lack of visibility of working capital performance across the organisation;
• covenants at risk of breach and high levels of debt;
  absence of realistic downside scenarios and associated mitigating action plans;
• unexpected funding requirements with limited understanding of tactical cash levers that can be pulled in the short to medium term; and/or
• lack of clarity of what other organisations within the same sector are doing to optimise cash.