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ZEN and the Art of Weekly Accounting

An Inquiry into Systems

Part 3 of the Infinite Series

 

                                                 

Early Thoughts Dated

Nov 21, 2023

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Subjects in the Appendix

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1. Weekly Accounting BackStories

1. Pursue the life and the work you love

1. Caroline wanted her bathroom done
2. Caroline was considering a job at the coffee shop
3. First two customers
4. How will I oversee this?
5. In the beginning was the domain name
6. My daughter painted a person sitting under a tree
7. She enabled me to pursue the life and the work that I loved.

1. Phil’s ridiculous story
2. Jeff and John’s ridiculous story
3. Teaching Greg the IFM and having him teach me bigquery
4. Learning with Jake

1. Case Studies

1. Robin Healthcare HIding the ball from yourself
2. Brave Health Quality as the ultimate goal of business
3. The daily linden dollar rollforward
4. Assembled Brands and the Rowset of Shopify Businesses

1. Philosophical Concepts

1. “You don’t notice anything for which you cannot see a limit”
2. The platypus and the magic cohort
3. If the business needs you its not-a-business

1. 8411
2. Are you setting up your business to need you?

1. The metaphysics of business

1. A business is a collection of processes
2. Every process has a transactional record
3. Input - process - output
4. Win Win Relationships inevitably proliferate

1. Poems

1. Using language like math
2. Creating space poem - 8411
3. The Song of Metaphysics
4. The intention and the system

1. Stories I tell

1. A map from the time of columbus
2. A CPA is a license tod do your books in way that doesn’t help the business
3. If you’re not managing your business weekly you’re managing your business weekly

1. Core Weekly Accounting Concepts

1. Accounting for all your business data

1. A business is a collection of processes
2. The Weekly Data Warehouse
3. Unit Economics are all that matter

1. The Views

1. The Instrumentation Pyramid
2. The Rowset
3. Monday Morning Metrics
4. Integrated Financial Model
5. The Reporting Tool
6. The WMQ Report

1. Level 2

1. Level 2 Marketing Metrics

1. Strategic Decision Making / Capital Decision Making

1. Long Term Valuation Model (LTVM)
2. The S Curve
3. The J Curve

1. Row row row your rowset

1. What is a rowset
2. What are the characteristics of a rowset - flow and balance
3. Flow and balance in every metric
4. What accountants get right.
5. There are only a dozen rowsets

1. Ride the wave of automation

1. Transactional accounting is the first thing to go
2. At the edge of every AI is a human who knows how to use it.
3. The smartest AI can serve the dumbest person - how would it respond?

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It's time for a new map

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