Your mixing things up as well Joe.
He is profitable for this Q..and that is a vast improvement over the past and is news worthy. In the past Q's his cost of doing business was more then the value of good/products sold. But again this is a theoretical number. Cash flow is a cycle.
Sell the product now, pay the expenses now, book the revenue now, receive the income later.
Use incoming revenue from past receivables to continue the cycle.
The $$ he has coming in now could have been from sales 2 Q's ago. Thus the problem. Money coming in lags money going out, and since they were losing $$ over the past Q's to make up the short fall they have to borrow, but the upside with this Q is .. they are no longer losing $$ they showed a profit so a few months from now when those $$ start coming in they will have $$ to pay back the loans they had to take out now.
and that is accounting and business 101 you all seem to think that this stuff all happens in a week or two. Companies will run payment terms of 30,60,90 days..
And to be fair, they have 700K in receivables to pay there liabilities.
and that will grow and they will have $$ to pay there liabilities if they continue to show a profit.. Plain and simple. Accounting 101 as you put it.
Short term ?? ya it sucks. they have to borrow.. Long term.. that is the question and if the trend continues ( profit) then they have no worries.