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It absolutely does. You should have 3 months of cash in the bank always. The rest should be in cash equivalents or short term investments. This is why most comp
by StopHammoTime 4y ago
It absolutely does. You should have 3 months of cash in the bank always. The rest should be in cash equivalents or short term investments. This is why most company’s with payrolls like that have a person called a “Treasury Officer” who manages all that and makes sure the bank accounts are funded adequately. They should also spread that around between banks to ensure that in the case of an issue with one facility there are other facilities or lines of credit to cover short term needs.
Anybody with more than $5 million in the bank should have someone dedicated to managing that money. If you don’t, then you’re not running a business properly. Startups like to skimp on important things like that and they shouldn’t. Any CFO with basic skills should be doing or arranging this depending on the size of the company. That’s literally their job.
- rmilk 4y agoExactly. Even a business checking account with interest is backed partly/fully by money market funds. Those ALL come with offering sheets clearly spelling out returns aren’t guaranteed AND you could lose capital. It’s simply poor money management by the employer to assume you can toss $1M-$5M in a business checking account and have zero risk. It’s not a personal account and it is clearly over the FDIC limits. Anyone with $250K net worth knows there is risk here. Even my 80+ mother who is NOT finance savvy knows about this $250k limit and manages her life savings in different money market accounts to limit her exposure.