Cash Flow Before Growth™
Use simple cash controls, working-capital discipline and forward visibility before chasing more revenue.
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Build forward visibility and cash-control habits before adding more growth pressure.
Revenue can rise while cash timing, reserves and working capital quietly get worse. This field manual turns cash discipline into a repeatable operating system.
See cash timing before it becomes a surprise.
Build a 13-week view and track the timing of receivables and payables.
Protect reserves and cash conversion.
Separate fixed and variable costs, use real reserve rules and price with cash timing in mind.
Scenario-plan before adding commitments.
Review owner pay, tax buckets, inventory traps and hiring decisions against forward cash visibility.
A practical cash-control operating system.
Build a 13-Week Cash View
Turn revenue and payment timing into a forward operating picture.
Control Payables, Reserves & Terms
Manage cash without breaking supplier trust or customer economics.
Scenario Planning Before Hiring
Test growth commitments against cash capacity before they become fixed obligations.
108 substantive field pages across 12 operating decisions.
Each chapter includes doctrine, workflow, decision rules, scripts and tools, measurement, failure diagnosis, a field experiment, a solo/team SOP and an implementation worksheet.
Use the guide as a weekly operating reference.
Read Chapters 1–3 first, then move to the decision that matches the current cash question. Review operating choices weekly and structural changes monthly or quarterly.
