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Measuring Cash Flow   Understand that cash flow plans are not
glimpses into the future. They're educated guesses that balance
a number of factors, including your customers' payment
histories, your own thoroughness at identifying upcoming
expenditures, and your vendors' patience. Watch out for assuming
without justification that receivables will continue coming in
at the same rate they have recently, that payables can be
extended as far as they have in the past, that you have included
expenses such as capital improvements, loan interest and
principal payments, and that you have accounted for seasonal
sales fluctuations.  Start your cash flow projection by adding
cash on hand at the beginning of the period with other cash to
be received from various sources. In the process, you will wind
up gathering information from salespeople, service
representatives, collections, credit workers and your finance
department. In all cases, you'll be asking the same