to meet payroll

Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 668: Having Cash Flow Problems.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 668. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful – a little rainy, but otherwise beautiful Los Angeles, California.

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This episode is about business. It’s about something called “cash flow.” Let’s get started.

Kylie: I’ve just crunched the numbers and we’re not going to be able to meet payroll next month because of cash flow problems.

Miguel: That can’t be. The cash flow projections from last month showed that we’d be fine.

Kylie: We didn’t anticipate a shortfall in income this month and didn’t set aside enough cash to hedge against a cash flow problem.

Miguel: What can we do? We need a stopgap solution