Working capital improvement: Transaction-level cash baseline and evidence grading

Executive summary

A method for finding where working capital is actually tied up and why, before any cash release target is promised.

What is inside

What the baseline diagnostic covers

The asset walks a diagnostic lead through defining the metrics, extracting transaction data, rebuilding aging and inventory health, measuring payment behavior on both sides, tracing root causes, grading claims, and signing off the baseline. It ends with a diagnostic questionnaire, an evidence inventory, and a sign-off checklist.

Rebuilding receivables, inventory, and payables from transactions
Days sales outstanding, inventory days, and payables days on consistent definitions
Where cash is tied up: aging, disputes, terms, slow stock, early payments
Root causes behind each pool of trapped cash
Grading claims and benchmarks against evidence
An evidence inventory and gap register
A baseline sign-off before targets are set

How to use it

How teams use it

Teams use it when leadership wants cash from the balance sheet and before targets are set. Finance, credit, supply chain, and procurement run it over three to four weeks; the CFO signs the baseline the rest of the pathway uses.

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Stratenity Advisory Team. (2026). Working capital improvement: Transaction-level cash baseline and evidence grading. Stratenity Library. https://www.stratenity.com/resources/library/diagnostic-templates/working-capital-improvement-transaction-level-cash-baseline-and-evidence-grading

Stratenity Advisory Team. "Working capital improvement: Transaction-level cash baseline and evidence grading." Stratenity Library, 2026, www.stratenity.com/resources/library/diagnostic-templates/working-capital-improvement-transaction-level-cash-baseline-and-evidence-grading.

Stratenity Advisory Team. "Working capital improvement: Transaction-level cash baseline and evidence grading." Stratenity Library, 2026. https://www.stratenity.com/resources/library/diagnostic-templates/working-capital-improvement-transaction-level-cash-baseline-and-evidence-grading.

Stratenity Advisory Team (2026) Working capital improvement: Transaction-level cash baseline and evidence grading. Stratenity Library. Available at: https://www.stratenity.com/resources/library/diagnostic-templates/working-capital-improvement-transaction-level-cash-baseline-and-evidence-grading (Accessed: the date of access).

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Working capital improvement: Transaction-level cash baseline and evidence grading

What the baseline diagnostic covers

This is a taste. The full library goes deeper.

Stratenity is the AI Operating System for Strategic Execution™.

Stratenity is the AI Operating System for Strategic Execution^™.