Your banking app says $42,000. You feel great. You order the new trailer.

But three supplier checks have not cleared. The sales tax money is still in there. Two customer deposits are for jobs you have not bought materials for yet.

Strip all that out and your real free cash might be $11,000. Big difference when you just ordered a trailer.

Scrappy math, once a week: bank balance, minus checks not cleared, minus money set aside for taxes, minus deposits already spoken for. What is left is yours to make decisions with.

Clean, reconciled books make that math honest. If yours are not, get in touch.

— Jake / Wenonah Bookkeeping