How is your company financed? And how and when is this finance going due to be repaid? A funding report can help ensure your company’s finance requirements are identified and properly considered as early as possible.
Key questions
You may want to consider providing the board with more than just a standard cash flow statement and the key questions a Funding Report Questionnaire seeks to answer usually include:
The answers will automatically provide the content for your report.
Financial requirements
Once you have completed your funding report questionnaire you can begin drafting your actual funding report. A good place to begin your presentation is with a timetable of anticipated funding, which takes as its starting point your “Requirement per cash flow forecast” which is then to be fulfilled by columns for “Anticipated funding” from, say, share issue, cash introduced from directors, bank loan or HP loan.