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Cash runway calculator

For how many months can your current operating cash absorb a constant monthly burn?

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Time until the cash floor

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Runway = (available cash − protected balance) / (payments − receipts), when burn is positive.

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Cash has already been measured after any opening payments you have made. This constant-flow illustration is not a monthly forecast: it ignores timing within a month, changing sales, seasonality and exceptional payments unless reflected in your inputs.

Include debt service, taxes, inventory purchases and necessary capital spending in payments when the question is how long the bank balance will last. A non-burning example has no finite runway under these assumptions; it does not prove long-term solvency.

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Use the restaurant worked example to connect opening capital, revenue, costs and cash. All its financial values are synthetic.

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