RefDate

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100%

n:
Year:
Month:
n

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24

Year

Month

1999
1999
1999
1999
1999
1999
1999
1999
1999
1999
1999
1999
2000
2000
2000
2000
2000
2000
2000
2000
2000
2000
2000
2000

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

1
10%

2
40%

3
20%

4
15%

5
10%

1
2
3
4
5
1999 1999 1999 1999 1999
Jan Feb Mar Apr May

6
5%

7
0%

6
1999
Jun

7
1999
Jul

8
1999
Aug

9
1999
Sep

10
1999
Oct

400
1,200
400
-

300
600
1,600
500
-

200
450
800
2,000
600
-

100
300
600
1,000
2,400
700
-

Amount

2,000
3,000
4,000
5,000
6,000
7,000
8,000
7,000
6,000
5,000
4,000
3,000
2,000
-

200
-

800
300
-

11
1999
Nov

12
1999
Dec

13
2000
Jan

14
2000
Feb

15
2000
Mar

16
2000
Apr

17
2000
May

150
400
750
1,200
2,800
800
-

200
500
900
1,400
3,200
700
-

250
600
1,050
1,600
2,800
600
-

300
700
1,200
1,400
2,400
500
-

350
800
1,050
1,200
2,000
400
-

400
700
900
1,000
1,600
300
-

350
600
750
800
1,200
200
-

18
2000
Jun

300
500
600
600
800
-

19
2000
Jul

250
400
450
400
-

20
2000
Aug

200
300
300
-

21
2000
Sep

150
200
-

22
2000
Oct

100
-

23
2000
Nov

24
2000
Dec

Hello
Will someone give me some help in setting up a model to forecast accounts
receivables. I should be something like this:
I regret the rather long-winded question but ....
Input:
B1
F1
G1
H1
Payment proportions
0.00

0.10

C1
0.40

D1
0.30

0.10

0.00

meaning that 10% of cash flows are received in the month of sale, 40% in the
first month after sale, 30% in the second month and 10% in the third month. The
model should allow to work with payment proportions extending over up to month
five after sales.
I have Start month as input in cell B2 (dd-mm-yyyy). I have entered here:
01-01-1999
Row
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29

Mth.
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Credit
sales

2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
7000
8000
7000
6000
5000
4000
3000

C10 D10 E10

Jan Feb Mar Apr May .......

200

Dec

800 600 400

300 1200 900 600
400 1600 1200 800
etc.

In C10 I have the formula: =B2

In D10 I have the formula: =EDATE($B$2, COLUMNS($A$1:A1) which I drag to M10.
In A15 I have the formula: =EDATE($B$2, -(COUNTA($B$1:$H$1)-1)).
In A16 I have the formula: =EDATE($A$15, Rows($A$1:A1) which I drag to
A29.
What I am after is some help with the formulas to calculate the monthly cash
flows (as indicated in rows 18-20).
If I enter for example 0.10; 0.40; 0.20; 015; 0.10; 0.05 in cells B1:H1
then I should have 200; 800; 400; 300; 200; 100 in cells C18: H18 etc.
Somewhere I feel it should be rather elementary, but nevertheless I can't figure
out the right formulas.
Hans Knudsen
hans.knudsen@mail.tele.dk

Somewhere I feel it should be rather elementary, but nevertheless I can't figure

out the right formulas.
Hans Knudsen
hans.knudsen@mail.tele.dk