May 22 Finance Check: Runway Questions Founders Should Ask Monthly
A monthly cash review that connects burn, receivables, founder salaries, hiring plans, and realistic fundraising timelines.
Runway is not just bank balance divided by monthly burn. Founders should also track receivables timing, committed expenses, delayed customer payments, founder salary assumptions, hiring plans, and the time it will realistically take to close funding or debt.
A monthly finance check can be simple: current cash, expected cash in, fixed costs, variable costs, runway under base case, runway under stress case, and decisions required before the next review.
For early Philippine startups, clean cash discipline is strategic. It improves investor trust, reduces emergency fundraising, and helps founders negotiate with partners from a position of clarity.