The liquidity model
Explain how the selected plans become one runway figure.
Runway is not a separate forecast — it is the cash consequence of the plans you already made.
Liquidity → Overview combines a scenario's selected Revenue, Headcount, Expenses and Investments plans into one cash picture, with scenario tabs across the top — Default scenario, named scenarios such as Best case scenario and Worst case, and + Add new scenario.
Six cards summarise the result. Opening Balance is cash at the start of the period. Runway counts the months before cash runs out — ∞ where it never does — against a Runway Target, the buffer you actually want. Monthly inflows and outflows build the Cumulated Cashflow, which turns the opening balance into the Ending Balance. Capital Need is the funding gap if that ending position falls short.
The chart plots three flow types — Inflow, Neutral flow and Outflow — against an Ending balance trend line, with Visible bars choosing how many months show. Below it, an expandable table breaks the same months into Opening Balance and a total per plan, so a movement in the chart can be traced back to the plan that caused it.
- 1Scenario tabs — Default, named scenarios, Add new scenario
- 2The six summary cards
- 3Visible bars, controlling how many months the chart shows
- 4Inflow, Neutral flow and Outflow, against the Ending balance trend line
- 5The monthly table — Opening Balance plus a total per plan
ValueWorks 2026.08
Takeaways
Runway is the cash consequence of the plans a scenario selects, not a separate forecast.
Six cards: Runway, Runway Target, Opening Balance, Ending Balance, Cumulated Cashflow, Capital Need.
The monthly table is the audit trail — it shows which plan moved the number.
Surfaces covered
- Liquidity
Also taught in the Academy
Module 6 · Liquidity and runway
Take it as lesson 6.1 in Business Analyst & FP&A