Treatment of Negative Cash Balances

I was given the task of doing FS projections for a 2 year old company based on the data they've given, their projected revenue and costs and FS of the last 2 years. In the B/s for 3 years the cash in hand(it's the bf) came as negative and I don't know how to adjust it. Can someone help me out?

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This discussion addresses the challenge of negative cash balances appearing in financial projections for a young company. The user is seeking guidance on how to adjust these figures, as they represent future projections rather than actual historical transactions. Expert advice suggests that negative cash balances often arise from omissions or overestimations, and in a projection context, it might indicate a need to account for funding or borrowing.

Genuinely if we think , how is it possible then we can get an easy answer . Because when it happens ( Cash paid to someone or for expenses ) , someone definitely did, it means on behalf paid by him/her. So now you will have to credit those people who paid on behalf of the company. 

Negative cash balance is a fallacy:
it may happen with everyone
omission of receipts or excess booking of expenses.

I understand that but the problem here is all these amounts aren't real and are just projections i.e. based on a growth pattern and thus I'm apprehensive about adding or subtracting from any of the values as they're all provided by the client

Increase profitability, Increase borriwings

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