Cash Flow
A walkthrough of AccountDesq’s receivables: live AR aging, the Settlement Engine for advances and credit balances, promises-to-pay as a real record, disputes as their own workflow, and the collections center that tells you who to follow up with next.
Vijay Patel · Head of Product, Accountdesq
A sweep rule watches one of your bank accounts and auto-transfers whatever sits above a trigger balance into another account of yours, keeping a configured minimum behind - and any transfer it creates still needs a second approver if it clears the threshold.
Vijay Patel · Head of Product, Accountdesq
Revenue and profit lag. Cash runway, DSO, and gross margin lead - the financial metrics every small business owner should track weekly, not just at year-end.
Pranjal Hedge · Small Business Finance Writer
What Categorize, Match, and Ignore actually do to a bank line - and which Banking screens genuinely post to your ledger versus which ones only help you decide.
Vijay Patel · Head of Product, Accountdesq
Profit is an opinion; cash is a fact. Build a 13-week rolling forecast in 15 minutes a week - no spreadsheet heroics required.
Vijay Patel · Head of Product, Accountdesq
The invoice itself is a collections tool. How the fastest-paid businesses design, time, and follow up on theirs.
Pranjal Hedge · Small Business Finance Writer
Every article is tagged four ways - start from whichever lens fits.
Curated sequences - read in order, finish with a working skill.
Zero to clean books: the foundation sequence every new business should read in order.
4 steps · ~48 min total
Get paid faster, handle every exception correctly, and see cash problems weeks early.
3 steps · ~27 min total
The compliance and automation sequence for the moment headcount and volume arrive.
3 steps · ~23 min total
From setting up a customer to reconciling the cash - exactly what each stage of a sale does in AccountDesq, and every exception along the way.
6 steps · ~63 min total
Vendor to Purchase Order to Bill to payment - what actually posts to your books at each stage, and what a "hold" does and doesn’t block.
4 steps · ~41 min total
Import a statement, explain every line, and keep transfers, petty cash, and reconciliations under real spending controls.
3 steps · ~32 min total
What posts to the ledger when stock moves, and what stays purely operational - Catalog through cycle counts.
4 steps · ~52 min total
Beyond the core financial statements - which report answers which question, and where its numbers actually come from.
5 steps · ~62 min total
Approval limits, the audit trail, journal entries, and every Settings screen - how the controls that keep your books honest actually work.
1 steps · ~12 min total
The finance vocabulary and controls that matter once you move past pure bookkeeping - health metrics, subscription revenue, and real approval controls.
3 steps · ~42 min total
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