Runway analysis for Australian businesses

A named person on our team owns your file and reviews everything that leaves it. Software does a real share of the grinding underneath it — coding, matching, flagging the obvious gaps — but nothing regulated happens without a person’s judgement, and nothing here is signed or filed by an algorithm.

No — runway analysis is operational work inside your books, not something submitted to ATO. Where a filing does sit downstream of it, inside advisory more broadly, that stays with your registered BAS or tax agent, never with us.

Whatever you already run. Most commonly QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, Sage, Zoho Books and a handful of others — we work inside your system rather than moving you onto one of our own.

A short, free read-only look at what you already have, and a written note on what we found. A scoping call decides the size of the engagement — nothing here commits you to anything.

There is no published price for runway analysis — it depends on volume, how many entities are involved, and how far behind the books are. We quote after the read-only review, which is free.

Runway analysis sits inside advisory, alongside Cash flow forecasting, Budgeting and forecasting, Margin analysis. Most clients end up buying the category as a whole rather than one leaf at a time, but starting narrow is fine.

Gross burn is every dollar out the door, nothing netted. Net burn subtracts what was actually collected. We report both, every time — a figure built on only one tells half the story.

Cash on hand divided by net burn gives months; we convert that to a calendar date and state the balance and burn it's derived from, so it's checkable.

No — that sits with you, your board, and your own advisers. We hand over the cash-out date, the assumptions, and how that date moves under a few named scenarios.

GST is a scheduled outflow built from historical BAS amounts and known due dates, never a figure we've worked out ourselves. Under TASA s.90-10, ascertaining a BAS liability is the restricted act, so we schedule it from what's known.

Yes, directly. SG is due quarterly and scales with headcount, so it's a fixed outflow on its actual due dates. We don't calculate the liability itself — that comes from your actual wage data as confirmed by your registered agent.

Monthly by default, concentrating in the lead-up to 30 June, when a business needs a clean cash position before its registered agent starts annual work. Fast-burning businesses move to weekly.

Usually whether the largest debtor collects on terms or slips, whether a planned hire starts on schedule with its full SG cost, and whether a major supplier renews at the current rate. We model the date under each named scenario.

No. A cash flow forecast projects receipts and disbursements across a horizon. Runway analysis is narrower: given cash and burn today, what month does it run out, and how much does that move under a few scenarios. That's a separate engagement.

No. The date is built from cash you hold today and burn you're actually running — an undrawn facility or unclosed raise doesn't belong in a number meant to tell you honestly what happens if it doesn't come through.

A named advisor reviews the model and every assumption before it reaches you. AI pulls the data and recalculates the figures; it doesn't sign off. If an assumption changes, that's stated at the next refresh, not corrected silently.