Cash runway 101: how to always know your zero-date

Runway isn't a number you calculate once a quarter — it's a live figure that should update as cash moves.

Finance teams spend the month reconstructing where the money went instead of steering where it's going. Budgets, actuals, cash position and runway live in separate places and only come together after close.

Signs this is happening to you

• You find out a department overspent only after the books close
• Cash runway is a spreadsheet someone updates occasionally
• There's no live view of budget vs actual by department

What it's really costing you

• No time to course-correct before the money is gone
• Runway surprises that should have been visible months earlier
• Finance stuck doing data assembly instead of analysis

How C Pulse solves financial visibility

C Pulse gives finance a live cockpit: budget-vs-actual with status flags, a cash runway with a projected zero-date, and expense anomaly detection — all current, all role-secured.

• Budget vs actual with on-track / warning / over-budget status
• Cash runway with a projected zero-date
• Expense approvals and category anomaly detection

Sensitive figures like salary and P&L are gated behind a finance-sensitive permission, so the same dashboard is safe to share across the leadership team.

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