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Modern cash reporting, from the people building it.

Practical guides for CFOs at $1–20M companies. No vendor-speak, no clichés, just the operating playbooks that actually work when you have 3–7 bank accounts, a 2-person finance team, and a CEO who wants to know today's cash by 7:45 AM.

September 1, 20263 min read

Debt balances, maturities and a pre-close EBITDA that publishes its own coverage

A debt module that shows balances, next payment, notes maturing within a year and debt service inside the 13-week window, plus a pre-close EBITDA off the live QuickBooks P&L that states how much of the ledger it covers.

August 27, 20263 min read

Aspire, connected directly: read-only jobs every morning and a PM link that asks one question

Connect Aspire with an API client ID and secret, read-only. Jobs refresh daily. Each PM gets a login-free link asking what it will take to finish, and every answer reprices that job's margin at completion.

July 16, 20263 min read

The AI General Ledger: deterministic double-entry books from the bank feed

Double-entry books built from what cleared the bank. The AI only categorizes; the accounting is deterministic, debits equal credits to the penny, and anything it cannot classify with confidence is held in Suspense. Now in the portal and the Excel export.

July 11, 20262 min read

Continuous Over/Under: Aspire's headline report, recomputed on every sync

Over/Under billing, earned minus billed per job, is now recomputed every time job data lands instead of once a month. Same sign convention Aspire users already read, plus a portfolio total and the worst underbilled job.

June 29, 20263 min read

The Operator Cockpit: job costing where every figure shows its work

A per-job money view for builders: contract, billed, earned, cost to date, hours, margin and cost to complete. The key derived figures carry a receipt naming the formula and source column.

June 9, 20263 min read

Connect Claude to your cash position: nine read-only tools over MCP

TreasuryFlow now runs an MCP server. Claude can read your cash position, 13-week forecast, AR aging and vendor spend through nine read-only tools. Every call is logged and every key is revocable.

June 6, 20263 min read

Close Radar: a daily bank-to-books tie-out that never automatically writes to your books

Every day, Close Radar compares what the bank posted with the cash balance in your books and hands you a ranked list of the differences. It never writes to your books automatically. Built, and shipping behind a switch that is not yet on in customer accounts.

April 24, 20267 min read

How Construction CFOs Prove Bonding Capacity in 5 Minutes

The surety asks for a current cash-position letter. Bid deadline is tomorrow. A step-by-step for construction CFOs to consolidate bonding bank, operating, and escrow via Plaid, tag each account, and export a surety-ready Excel workbook in five minutes.

April 24, 20268 min read

The Fractional CFO's Multi-Client Cash Playbook: One Login, All Clients

Ten clients, three banks each: that's 30 portal logins before your first email. How fractional CFOs reclaim up to 90 minutes a day with single sign-on across every client's banks, plus our 20% partner rev-share for 12 months.

April 24, 20268 min read

Why Your Money-Market Fund Isn't Showing in Your Daily Cash Report (and How to Fix It)

Most treasury tools silently filter investment accounts out of the daily cash view. The dashboard says $3.4M; you actually have $3.8M. Why it happens, why it specifically breaks construction CFOs, and what TreasuryFlow v3.5.0 did about it.

April 23, 20269 min read

Daily Cash Position: The CFO Morning Routine (and How to Cut It to 5 Minutes)

Most CFOs spend up to 90 minutes every morning logging into bank portals to answer one question: how much cash do we have? Here's the routine that works, and how to automate it down to 5 minutes.

April 23, 202610 min read

Multi-Bank Cash Consolidation: The $1–20M CFO's Guide

Why mid-market companies end up with 3–7 bank relationships, how to roll up balances across all of them without losing your morning, and what to do when one bank acquires another.

April 23, 202611 min read

Trovata Alternative for Mid-Market CFOs: When $24K/Year Is the Wrong Tool

Trovata was built for $500M+ treasury teams and is heading further upmarket after the ATOM acquisition. Here's the honest breakdown of when it fits, when it doesn't, and what most $10–100M CFOs switch to.

April 23, 20269 min read

Plaid Bank Feeds for CFOs: What Actually Works (And What Doesn't)

Plaid powers most modern fintech bank connections. Here's what a CFO should actually know: how it works, when it breaks, what it costs, and why QuickBooks bank feeds are not the same thing.

April 17, 20268 min read

The 13-Week Cash Flow Forecast: A Complete Guide for CFOs

How to build, update, and actually use a 13-week cash flow forecast. Weekly bucket structure, variance tracking, minimum cash alerts, and the mistakes every CFO makes the first time. Free Excel template included.

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