I built this to show what happens when you actually check where the cash is going, rather than as...I built this to show what happens when you actually check where the cash is going, rather than as...
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I built this to show what happens when you actually check where the cash is going, rather than assuming.
"Profitable on paper, short of cash" is a question every business asks, and almost everyone answers it the same way — chase the late payers. On this ledger that turned out to be worth £746 a year. The money was somewhere nobody was looking: £19,710 short-paid on invoices that then closed, and £9,741 never collected at all.
It also tests something the sales side usually assumes: whether granting longer payment terms changes when a customer pays. It doesn't. Customers on 30-day terms paid in 32 days; customers on 60-day terms paid in 28.
Both ledgers are generated and the generator is published with them, so every figure reproduces from scratch.
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