Financial fundamentals
Understand the basic numbers behind cash flow, burn, and runway.
RunwayCal Learn
Understand the numbers behind better business decisions.
Learn cash, runway, planning, reporting and finance concepts in plain English, then follow the topic into the part of RunwayCal that helps you use it. You do not need a finance background to start here.
Choose what you want to understand.
Start with the essentials.
These concepts explain the numbers you will see most often when reviewing the financial health of a business.
Planning the months ahead
Explore how hiring, spending, and growth choices affect the plan.
- Can I Afford to Hire Another Employee?
- How Much Runway Should a Company Have
- Runway vs Profitability
- High Burn vs Low Burn
- Grow Faster or Preserve Runway
- How Much Cash Buffer Should My Business Keep?
- Can My Business Afford Another Location?
- Can My Business Afford a Large Expense?
- Operational Runway vs Accounting Runway
Board and investor reporting
Communicate financial position, changes, and plans with more context.
Calculators and planning models
Work through runway, burn, and cash questions with practical models.
Financial risks and warning signs
Recognize the patterns that can put cash and runway under pressure.
Dashboards and financial visibility
Learn how cash flow, dashboards, and reporting views support a review.
How RunwayCal calculates
See how selected RunwayCal metrics are calculated and what inputs they depend on.
Multi-location finance
Review each location on its own and understand the business as a whole.
Automation and financial systems
Learn how integrations, imports and connected data fit into the financial workflow.
Try the numbers yourself.
Use these calculators to explore a question, then review the assumptions behind the result.
Get one useful finance idea each week.
Plain-English notes on cash, runway, planning and financial decisions for people running growing businesses.
Understand where the business stands. Plan what comes next.
RunwayCal connects cash, costs, revenue, teams, commitments and plans so you can make the next decision with more context.