How to Use Twin to Analyze Your Cash Flow

Overview

Twin, Slash’s built-in AI assistant, can help you analyze your business cash flow by answering questions about transactions, upcoming payments, historical trends, and more. Instead of exporting data to a spreadsheet first, you can ask Twin a plain-English question and get a summarized analysis.

Use Twin to understand where cash is coming from, where it is going, whether your balance is trending up or down, and what may affect your short-term runway. Twin can also help you turn that analysis into follow-up actions, such as reviewing large expenses, categorizing transactions, preparing a report, or planning transfers.

Before You Start

Twin can only analyze data it has permission to access. Before asking for a cash flow analysis, make sure:

• Your Slash account is active and contains the entities, accounts, cards, transactions, and payments you want Twin to review.
• You have access to the entity or account you are asking about. Twin follows your normal Slash permissions.
• If you use Slack, Twin is connected to your workspace and available in the channel or DM where you are asking the question.
• For the best results, specify the entity, date range, accounts, and type of analysis you want.

What You Can Ask Twin

Cash flow questions work best when they include a time period and a goal. You can ask broad questions to get an overview, or narrow questions to investigate a specific issue.

Cash position and runway

• “What is our current cash position across all Slash accounts?”
• “How much runway do we have based on the last 90 days of outflows?”
• “Summarize our beginning balance, ending balance, inflows, and outflows for this month.”

Inflows and revenue timing

• “Show me our largest deposits in the last 30 days.”
• “Compare customer payments received this month versus last month.”
• “Which incoming payments are unusually late or smaller than expected?”

Outflows and spend trends

• “What were our biggest cash outflows this week?”
• “Break down our card spend by vendor and category for the last month.”
• “Find recurring payments that increased compared with the previous period.”

Forecasting and planning

• “Forecast our cash balance through the end of the month using recent activity.”
• “What upcoming bills, card settlements, or transfers could affect our cash balance?”
• “If we keep spending at the current rate, when will we drop below $50,000?”

How to Analyze Cash Flow with Twin

Step 1: Choose the scope

Start by telling Twin which entity, account, or time period to analyze. If you do not specify a scope, Twin may ask a follow-up question or use the most relevant account data available to you.

Example: “@Twin analyze cash flow for Acme Corp from April 1 to April 30. Include starting balance, ending balance, total inflows, total outflows, and the largest drivers of the change.”

Step 2: Review the summary

Twin will summarize the results in plain English. Depending on your request, the response may include total cash in, total cash out, net cash flow, top deposits, top withdrawals, recurring spend, unusual transactions, and a short explanation of what changed.

Review the summary for accuracy and context. If something looks unexpected, ask Twin to show the underlying transactions or explain how it calculated the result.

Step 3: Drill into the drivers

After the overview, ask follow-up questions to isolate the cause of a change. Twin can group activity by merchant, category, card, account, or date range when that data is available.

• “Which vendors contributed most to the increase in outflows?”
• “Separate one-time expenses from recurring expenses.”
• “Compare this month’s software spend to the prior three-month average.”

Step 4: Ask for a forecast or scenario

Once Twin has summarized recent activity, you can ask it to estimate what may happen next. Forecasts are based on available data and assumptions, so they should be treated as planning inputs rather than guarantees.

• “Forecast ending cash for the next 30 days using the average daily net cash flow from the last 60 days.”
• “What happens to runway if payroll is 15% higher next month?”
• “Show a conservative, expected, and optimistic cash flow scenario.”

Step 5: Turn the analysis into action

Twin can help you decide what to do next. You can ask it to prepare a summary for your team, identify transactions that need review, suggest which vendors to investigate, or help plan operational steps inside Slash.

Tips for Better Results

• Be specific about the entity, account, and time period you want reviewed.
• Ask Twin to show the assumptions behind forecasts, such as average daily outflow or recurring payment timing.
• Use follow-up questions. Cash flow analysis often starts broad, then narrows into specific vendors, payments, or categories.
• Ask for the source transactions when you need to audit or verify an answer.
• Use categories and accounting mappings in Slash to improve the quality of vendor and spend analysis over time.

Important Limitations

Twin’s answers are based on the data available in Slash and the permissions of the user making the request. If transactions are pending, uncategorized, outside the selected date range, or held in another system that is not connected to Slash, they may not be reflected in the analysis.

Cash flow forecasts are estimates. Use them for planning and review the underlying data before making financial, investment, tax, or legal decisions.

Need More Help?

If Twin cannot answer a cash flow question or the numbers do not look right, ask it to show the transactions it used and explain the calculation. For additional help with Slash accounts, permissions, or accounting workflows, contact Slash support by using the in-app chat in your Slash dashboard.