Aside from establishing suffici premium levels for future risks, actuaries also use their skills to determine whether the insurer's assets on hand are sufficient for the risks that the insurer has already committed to cover. Typically this involves at least two steps. The first is to estimate the current amount of assets necessary for the particular insurance pool. The second is to estimate the flow of claim payments, premiums collected, expenses and other income to assure that point in time the insurer has enough cash (as opposed to long-term investments) to make the payments.