Disbursement Funding — Cash Impact Model

A. Practice Profile Editable

New matters opened per month average across the practice

Average matter length (months) open to settlement

Post-settlement cash receipt lag (months) settlement to funds received

Average total disbursement spend per matter ($) across the whole matter life $

Annual matter growth rate year-on-year change in volume %

B. Disbursement Structure Up to 8 events

Select a disbursement type to activate a row, set the timing (month number within the matter, where 1 = the opening month, 9 = the 9th month, etc.) and the % of total spend it represents. Leave a row blank to skip it. Active rows must sum to 100%.

	Disbursement type	Timing (mth no.)	% of spend	$ amount

Year 1 cash deployed

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Spent on disbursements before any repayment arrives

Peak cash out of pocket

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Highest single-year net outflow

Total exposure at Year 7

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Cumulative self-funded capital at Year 7

Cash Impact — Without Disbursement Funding

Matter Velocity

New matters opened, settled, and the resulting open caseload each year.

New matters opened Matters settled Open matters (line)

Funding vs Repayments

Cash deployed on disbursements vs. cash repaid after settlement.

Cash deployed Cash repaid Net movement (line)