Working capital at completion
Keep the next rota funded
Separate security working capital from cash, match guarding invoices to receipts and plan payroll dates with a two-page completion worksheet.
For sellers 13 pages 11-minute read Updated Oct 2026
Who this guide is for
For security business owners preparing a sale. Use it when guarding payroll, customer approvals, monitoring advances or installer stock make the completion balance hard to explain.
What you will take from it
- Reconcile operating balances under a written working-capital definition.
- Build a dated calendar from actual receipts, payroll and supplier payments.
- Keep borrowing, cash and the agreed price separate from the operating schedule.
What is inside
- Agree what the balance includes
- Follow each invoice to a receipt
- Put payroll on its actual dates
- Match advances to unfinished work
- Build the dated cash calendar
- Settle the open points before signing
The tool: security completion cash worksheet
A two-page fillable worksheet for the agreed operating balance and dated receipts and payments. Record evidence, uncertainties and the next action.
It comes as its own file as well as a page of the guide.
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