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Steve discusses the importance of having a financial system beyond just accounting to understand business cash flow and decision-making.

How much cash is hiding in your business? See if you qualify for a Free Financial Health Check Financial Intelligence Toolkit Your books are clean. Reports come out on time. Taxes are filed. And you still don't know if you can afford that next hire, whether you should take on that big contract, or how much you can actually pull out without breaking the business. In this episode, Steve breaks down why having an accountant or controller is not the same as having a financial system a...

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Host: Steve Coughran

Topics covered

• financial health
• accounting
• CFO
• business management
• financial systems

Keywords

• financial health check
• accountant vs CFO
• business cash flow
• financial intelligence
• business decisions

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