Cash Asleep in the Building · Chapter Six

The First Ninety Days

Five practices set in order, from drawing the cycle with names to a ledger both sides can sign.

Ammanuel Santa Anna · ORCID 0009-0008-3244-0306

Chapter Six of Cash Asleep in the Building: Working Capital as an Organisational Question.

Abstract

Five practices set in order, from drawing the cycle with names to a ledger both sides can sign. It is half past seven on a Monday in January, and the managing director of the firm that makes ventilation hoods has the office to herself. She has read the first five chapters of a book like this one, or lived them, and she has decided that this year the firm will stop discovering its cash position on the night before payroll. On her desk are a notebook, a coffee and the management accounts for December. The temptation, which she feels at the back of her neck, is to announce a working-capital programme at Friday's meeting, with a target in days and a name. She is a composite, drawn from the way these first weeks are described in the research the earlier chapters read and in the house's own practice, and no firm is meant. This chapter is written to her, and to anyone in her position: the person who runs something and wants to begin.

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Santa Anna, A. (2026). The First Ninety Days. In Cash Asleep in the Building. Luminous Prosperity Inc. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23989326

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