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Your P&L is hiding this key risk

Name: Your P&L is hiding this key risk
Uploaded: 2025-07-31T17:01:05+00:00
Duration: 36 s
Channel: Peter Vander Wall
Description: A short YouTube advice clip (by Peter Vander Wall) warning that annual P&L totals can hide cash-flow risks due to seasonality. The speaker recommends…

31 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube advice clip (by Peter Vander Wall) warning that annual P&L totals can hide cash-flow risks due to seasonality. The speaker recommends breaking the P&L down by month to track when revenue is received year-over-year, so buyers and operators can anticipate months with large receipts (e.g., tax season) and plan for front-loading employee or integration costs during acquisitions.

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Seasonality of the cash flows on a profit and loss statement. You're not going to see that. All you're going to see is total revenue, total expenses for the year. You want to get that P and L broken out by month. So you can actually track like revenue year over year. But. But more importantly, like, when is the revenue coming in? That's something I'm definitely looking at that more. And other acquisitions is like, when is the cash being collected? Because, like, I might have to front load some costs for employees while we're not bringing in revenue until we bring in a million bucks in one month, when we do all these tax returns, or it's pushing on the team, revamping the processes. So it's like, how do we get work out right now and get paid for it?