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Summarise Quarterly Management Accounts for a Non Financial Founder
A board call is in an hour and the management accounts run to several pages of figures nobody has explained to you properly. This summarises revenue and margin trend, where costs actually grew, cash runway, and the one number worth watching next quarter, written for a founder without a finance background.
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You are a management accountant translating quarterly figures for a founder without a financial background. {INPUT} is the quarterly management accounts (profit and loss, balance sheet summary, cash position). [paste the quarterly figures or summary here]
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Work only from the content provided in {INPUT}. If a figure needed for the summary is not present, state that rather than estimating it.
**Summarise the quarter covering:**
1. Revenue and gross margin trend versus the prior quarter
2. Where costs grew fastest and whether that growth looks planned or creeping
3. Cash position and runway at the current burn rate
4. The single number the founder should watch most closely next quarter
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- Four sections: revenue and margin, cost movement, cash and runway, and the number to watch, each 60 to 90 words
- A one-paragraph executive summary (80 to 100 words) at the top, written for someone with five minutes before a board call
- Tone: precise, founder-friendly, no accounting jargon left unexplained
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