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Dan Hastings

@hastingsdan

Seasoned finance pro improving working capital one business at a time

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Most cash flow problems aren’t surprises, they’re ignored trends in AR, AP, and inventory. #WorkingCapital #CashFlow #FinanceOps

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If no one owns working capital, everyone assumes someone else is watching it. That’s how cash disappears. #FinanceOps #WorkingCapital #CFO

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Revenue growth can hurt cash flow. If you scale AR and inventory without control, profit means nothing. #DSO #DOI #FinanceOps

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Hot take: Most companies don’t have a cash forecasting problem. They have a forecast nobody acts on. Revenue doesn’t kill companies. Silence does.

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Most cash flow problems are not revenue problems. They are collection problems. The cash conversion cycle is still the most underused framework in mid-market finance. Shorten the gap between spending cash and receiving it. That is the job. What is different now: AR platforms

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Reading that the CFO and Legal Counsel are BOTH exited from a listed company is wild, stock’s 55% down. The thing that stood out in this article wasn’t the accounting, it was including the words “tone at the top” in the filing which is fairly strong language. Given the CEO has

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I BUILT A $5,000 AI AUTOMATION FOR PLUMBING COMPANIES And it runs the entire admin side of the business without the owner touching their phone. - It reads new job requests - extracts the details - generates a quote using their pricing rules - proposes available time slots -

I BUILT A $5,000 AI AUTOMATION FOR PLUMBING COMPANIES

And it runs the entire admin side of the business without the owner touching their phone.

- It reads new job requests
- extracts the details
- generates a quote using their pricing rules
- proposes available time slots
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I've been chatting to a few people lately about Claude Cowork and how they're testing it for accounting processes. Seems like there's a mix between excitement and frustration, mainly because they assume AI tools will improve reconciliations and forecasts the moment they are

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I was playing around with Google Sheets today after the update that lets Gemini edit directly in the sheet. It’s a pretty cool step forward if you're a big user of Sheets, but for every request I gave it my reaction was that I’d still be quicker doing the work myself. The