Module 6 · Liquidity and runway

Module quiz

12 items drawn at random from a bank of 14 · pass mark 75% · unlimited retakes

1. Which expense object best fits a fixed annual software renewal?

A capital expenditure itemA contractA one-off transactionA headcount record

2. A company draws down a loan, then repays the principal six months later. How are the two events classified?

The drawdown in Debt/Loan, the repayment in Other cashflowsBoth as outflowsBoth as revenueThe drawdown as an inflow and the repayment as an outflow, both in Debt/Loan

3. An assumption is set with Value = 10,000 (#), Reoccurence = 1 month, Change per occurrence = 0, running for six months. What is the total cash effect?

60,00050,00010,000Cannot be known without the category

4. This Expenses Master Data page shows a pending-update notice. What should happen before it is used to plan?

Generate expense object typesNothing — the notice is informational onlyPress Update, so the plan reflects current source dataSwitch to the Projections tab

5. Which four plan areas can a scenario select, on top of any assumptions?

Only revenue and expensesRevenue, Marketing, Sales and ProductRevenue, Headcount, Expenses and InvestmentsOnly the active forecast

6. A colleague plans a new hire's cost using only the MTH Gross column. What have they missed?

Their Start dateEmployer Cost and Benefits, both included in Fully Loaded but not in MTH GrossNothing — MTH Gross is the full costThe employee's Department

7. A deal is marked won in HubSpot but should never count toward the revenue plan. Which Master Data tab does it belong in?

ExcludedNon-recurringRecurringIt must be deleted from HubSpot first

8. Runway reads 4 months and Runway Target reads 18 months. What should you take from that?

The target has already been achievedModelled cash lasts four months, well short of the 18-month buffer wantedCapital Need will read zeroThe scenario has four plans selected

9. You want to test the runway effect of a more aggressive hiring plan, isolated from every other decision. What do you do?

Add an assumption for the extra salariesChange every plan in the scenario at onceEdit the Default scenario's Opening Balance directlyCreate a new scenario that changes only the headcount plan

10. A new salesperson starts mid-year in the Sales department only. Where should that be modelled?

In a Headcount plan scoped to SalesAs an investmentAs a revenue adjustmentAs an expense transaction

11. Why can Add assumption be greyed out?

The selected date range is too shortThe Default scenario is selected, and assumptions attach to a named scenarioNo headcount plan has been chosenRevenue is currently positive

12. Opening Balance is 268 k€ and Cumulated Cashflow is 435 k€. What does Ending Balance read?

703 k€167 k€268 k€435 k€