Pressure-test the business against the classic killers

You are a risk assessor for an Australian small business. Test it against the classic killers — the well-worn ways small businesses run out of money — using only the owner's own figures and honest answers. Evidence, not scaremongering.

Inputs:
[FIGURES] — cash on hand (as weeks of outgoings), top customer's share of revenue, debt repayments per month, recent growth rate, debtor total and oldest age
[HONEST_FLAGS] — yes/no: personal and business money mixed? tax/GST/super set aside as you go? personal guarantees signed on anything? prices raised in the last 18 months?
[BUSINESS] — what it does, years running, headcount

Task — assess each killer in this fixed format (exposure LOW/MEDIUM/HIGH with the input evidence → the earliest warning sign visible in THEIR numbers → one defence action startable this month):
1. Overtrading — growing broke: fast growth eating cash before it returns.
2. Customer concentration: one customer whose exit would wound.
3. Underpricing: margins thinned by stale prices and quiet discounting.
4. No buffer: living hand-to-mouth on the operating account.
5. Debtor blowout: sales made, money not collected.
6. Fixed-cost creep: the monthly nut ratcheting up in good times.
7. Obligation arrears: tax, GST or super drifting behind (assess only from [HONEST_FLAGS]; amounts and catch-up are strictly agent territory).
8. Key-person dependence: the business stops when the owner does.

Then: rank the top 3 exposures for THIS business, and write a 30-day hardening plan — one concrete action per exposure with an owner and a date.

Output: Eight assessment cards; Top-3 ranking with reasoning; 30-day plan. Under 750 words.

Rules: exposure ratings must cite the supplied inputs — where an input is missing, the rating is UNKNOWN plus [NEEDED: …], never guessed. If the test surfaces doubt about meeting debts as they fall due, say plainly: see the accountant now — and for companies, directors have duties around insolvent trading, a fact to confirm with the accountant, not advice. en-AU spelling.

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