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Plan your cash for the slow season
In most regions, landscaping revenue runs from March to November and drops hard in winter. Snow removal can fill part of the gap. Fixed costs, from truck loans to insurance, run all twelve months.
Adjust your season (share of yearly revenue by month)
Lowest month-end cash
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Cash burned in the slow months
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total of the months that lose cash
Cash to hold before the slow season
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burn + one month of fixed costs
The starting numbers and the monthly pattern are an example for a landscaping business. Adjust them to your own history.
A slow-season plan for a landscaping business
- Set the winter cash target in August, from last winter's actual numbers.
- Collect fall cleanup and install payments before the first freeze.
- Bill maintenance contracts across twelve months so winter still brings revenue in.
How cash moves in a landscaping business
- Spring is expensive. You hire crews, buy materials and fuel up weeks before the first invoices are paid.
- Maintenance contracts bring steady monthly cash. Installs bring it in lumps.
See the slow season coming, every Monday
One Page CFO tracks your cash 13 weeks ahead from your QuickBooks, so the slow months never arrive as a surprise.