What is cash flow and how does it effect business?

What is cash flow ?

cash flow is a balance between the money coming in to  business an infloe ( sales revenue ) and the costs of the business for example paying the energy bills of the business, an outflow

but does that sound a little bit like profit ( but remember profit is making sure that your  totalspending is less than your sales revenue) - yes it does but there is a difference a business can be profitable but still have a cashflow problem this is because you can be making sales renvue and lots of it but…