Template · quarterly
Cash flow Sankey template
This is a quarter of cash movement drawn as a Sankey diagram. Opening cash and receipts enter, payments leave, closing cash is what remains.
It answers the question a board asks first: the cash went out of the door, and this is which doors.
Free to build and style. No account until you save.
The numbers that drew it
- Opening cash [$2,400k] Cash in
- Customer receipts [$3,150k] Cash in
- Cash in [$1,260k] Payroll
- Cash in [$540k] Suppliers
- Cash in [$180k] Rent & utilities
- Cash in [$260k] Marketing
- Cash in [$150k] Taxes
- Cash in [$400k] Equipment
- Cash in [$2,760k] Closing cash
Making it with your own numbers
- 1
Start with opening cash
Opening cash is a source, like receipts. Closing cash is a target, like any payment. That is what makes the two sides balance.
- 2
Paste your payments
One line per category. Keep the categories your board already knows, not the ones the accounting system uses.
- 3
Export at deck size
1600 by 900 drops onto a slide without resizing. Clean PNG and SVG need a Pass; the watermarked PNG is free.
The studio opens on this diagram, with the numbers in the panel beside it. Select all, paste yours over them.
Questions
- Can a Sankey show negative cash flow?
- Yes, when closing cash is smaller than opening cash. Ribbons carry amounts, so the shrinking closing node does the talking.
- Should I split operating, investing and financing?
- You can. Add a middle node per category, then flow the payments out of it. Three columns stay readable; five rarely do.
- How long does the next quarter take?
- One paste. Open the saved diagram, paste the new numbers, re-run. The previous quarter is kept as a dated snapshot.
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