The operational signals
Timing payroll around withdrawal dates. Choosing which supplier to pay each week. Watching the operating account balance daily rather than weekly. Each of these is a scheduling problem standing in for a structural one.
When management attention shifts from operations to payment logistics, the position has already changed character even if nothing has been missed yet.
The financial signals
Taking a new advance to cover an existing one. Repayment obligations exceeding operating margin. Declining a profitable job because the working capital is committed to debt service.
Any one of these warrants a full obligation review. Together they indicate the shortfall is a matter of timing, not possibility.
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