The trouble with any income statement is it tells you absolutely nothing about your cash flow.
I'm not familiar with Omni, but what you need is a cash flow statement. If the software doesn't produce one by default, you can extract one from movements in the balance sheet.
Ultimately, a cash flow statement will tell you exactly why your profits aren't turning into cash. e.g. -
If your debtors has grown R100k over the period, that's R100k in profits that hasn't produced cash. (Normally you'd try to offset this with some growth in creditors).
If your stock holding has increased over the period, this is also an area that is soaking up profits.
Then there's capital movements such as vehicle instalments...
There's an old saying -
Turnover is vanity.
Profit is sanity.
Cash flow is reality.
One tends to lead to the other, but the real bottom line is cash flow.
No-one's going to sue you for under performing in the first two, but if you can't pay your bills...
Cash flow is what makes or breaks you.
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