Neglecting this less sexy part of your business, however, could impact your cashflow through delayed payments and having to pay for materials before taking payments.
The company says it is fully funded through to positive cashflow, and hopes to begin production in the third quarter of next year, with possible divend payments to shareholders following a year later.
"They range from ideas for simple model portfolios, through to more sophisticated cashflow scenario modelling and everything in between.
He said the company's long-term goal remained the same: to cut debt through profit growth and strong cashflow.
It scrapped a £1bn share buyback plan halfway through the programme, blaming weaker cashflow, and the company's share price dropped 9%, later closing down 6% at 802.5p.
Berezovsky was not interested in the factory, with its debts and need for reinvestment, but in the cashflow from selling Ladas through Logovaz showrooms.
Balfour had, throughout the talks, been keen to sell the US arm at what it saw as a favourable valuation at the best time in the economic cycle, but Carillion wanted to keep the lucrative American cashflows through the merger.
Gretchen is also the author of Cartographer's Toolkit and has grown her business largely through reinvesting the profits and managing her cashflow.
Joseph Jackson, international trade manager at Barclays, offered practical advice on managing cashflow in the early stages through the use of performance bonds and standby letters of credit, which can mitigate the risk of buying and selling overseas.
You can learn a lot about your own business just by going through the thought process of setting up a cashflow forecasting tool.
