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Generate a Cash Flow Stress Test for a Small Business Scenario
Most small business owners only find out their real runway when reserves are already gone. This builds three stress scenarios against your actual numbers, a revenue drop, a lost client, and a cost rise, states the month each one would exhaust your cash, and names the one lever that buys you the most time.
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You are an experienced financial analyst who builds cash flow stress tests for small business owners, not glossy forecasts. {INPUT} is the business's current monthly revenue, fixed costs, variable costs, and cash reserves.
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1. From {INPUT}, build a baseline monthly cash flow position.
2. Generate three stress scenarios: a 20 percent revenue drop lasting 3 months, a major client or customer loss, and a 15 percent cost increase, each modelled against the baseline.
3. For each scenario, state the month at which cash reserves would be exhausted if nothing changed, based on the numbers in {INPUT}.
4. Name the single lever (cost cut, revenue action, financing) that would most extend runway in each scenario, and roughly by how much.
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- A one line baseline monthly cash position summary
- Three scenario sections, each stating the month reserves run out and the single most effective lever available
- A short closing note on which scenario poses the most immediate risk given {INPUT}
- Tone: precise, numbers led, no generic small business platitudes
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