The Mindset Shift is the Mindset Shift | Retail Cash Flow Strategy with Steve Coughran

Описание: The Mindset Shift is the Mindset Shift | Retail Cash Flow Strategy with Steve Coughran
Your P&L shows profit. Your bank account shows stress. What's the disconnect?
Steve Coughran, author of "Cash Flow" and founder of Coltivar, delivers a masterclass in retail cash flow strategy that every independent retailer needs to hear.
The problem isn't passion or effort. It's operating in the cash flow fog — running a business without understanding how cash actually flows through it.
Your income statement is lying to you. You can show $100,000 in profit while having $10,000 in your bank and pulling on your line of credit to make payroll. That's not a mystery. That's the difference between profit and cash flow.
THE SEVEN LEVERS OF CASH FLOW
Volume, price, COGS, operating expenses, working capital, risk, and strategy. These are the specific levers you can pull today to improve your cash position.
THE CASH CONVERSION CYCLE
Days Sales Outstanding + Days Inventory Outstanding - Days Payables Outstanding = your cash conversion cycle. If you're holding 60 days of inventory but paying vendors in 30 days, you're self-funding 30 days of working capital out of pocket.
THE FOUR LEVERS OF PROFIT
Volume, price, COGS, OpEx. Steve explains which lever to pull first (hint: it's not volume), how pricing connects to strategy, and why your labor costs are killing your margins.
INVENTORY AS A CASH KILLER
You're taking money out of your bank and putting it in a box on a shelf. When do you get it back? Excess inventory doesn't just hurt cash flow — it strangles it. Steve explains how to use ROIC to know if you're turning inventory fast enough.
THE VOLUME TRAP
"We can shave a few margin points and push volume up." Steve destroys this myth with math. Chasing volume at margin's expense scales your problems, not your business. The strategy that works: maintain or expand margin while increasing volume through inventory control, amplified marketing, and precision selling.
WORKING CAPITAL REALITY
Amazon collects customer payments immediately, pays suppliers on the back end, funds growth with other people's money. You can do the same by matching inventory days to vendor payment terms.
STRATEGY AS INTERRELATED DECISIONS
"Strategy is not an exercise. It's a set of interrelated decisions about where your company will compete, how it will compete, and how it will win."
You can't sell high-end products in a terrible store. You can't pursue cost leadership while carrying premium inventory. Every decision has to fit together.
METRICS THAT MATTER
Identify your biggest constraint. Find the ONE metric that tells you if you're solving it. Define the behavior change when that metric moves. If you can't answer that last part, you're measuring the wrong thing.
THE MINDSET SHIFT
"You have a fiduciary responsibility to protect the assets of your business. You can't say 'I'm not a numbers person.' That's a lame excuse. Too many people depend on you."
The mindset shift is the mindset shift. You can't build sustainable retail without financial intelligence.
This retail cash flow strategy framework gives you the exact calculations to assess cash health, the levers to improve it immediately, and the strategic decisions that separate businesses from assets.

STEVE COUGHRAN:
📖 "Cash Flow: How to Build a Great Company That Endures in Tough Economies and Thrives in Booming Ones"
🌐 Coltivar.com
💼 linkedin.com/in/stevecoughran

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