STR.8:5.4 - A growing customer base does not fund the next round yet

In this constructed subscription-service case, one hundred customers are active at the beginning of the month. Twenty-four new customers enter and ten customers leave during the month; all use the same membership definition, with no other entries or exits. The closing base is 100 + 24 - 10 = 114. Fourteen percent growth describes this month’s change, not a forecast that it will recur.

For a proposed further group, a qualified forecast gives twelve currency units of acquisition payment per customer now and fifteen units of later receipts net of provision and support payments, collected sixty days later. This first round has separate funding. The proposal is to fund another acquisition round after thirty days solely from those customer receipts. At that date there is no other available cash after current obligations and protected reserves.

The expected three-unit contribution per customer does not fund the thirty-day round: its receipts arrive later. The useful return is the missing financing or timing condition. STR.8 can compare a permitted earlier receipt, a later round or another supported funding arrangement; it does not assume one has been obtained. STR.9 compares the full resulting options when that account is sufficient, and STR.11 keeps the actual commitment separately authorized. The present service continues under its own adequate support.