Most small businesses have a timing mismatch between receivables and payables--and you can't pay for things today with cash you expect to receive tomorrow.

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Also include an aging schedule of receivables and payables.

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Quite reasonably, financial wizards like to subtract all kinds of things from enterprise value, like receivables that are offset by payables.

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Cash gets boosted when payables go up or receivables go down.

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