What is the Cash Sheet?
What is the Cash Sheet?
The Cash Sheet tracks the daily cash position across all accounts and credit cards, then addresses the timing of Receivables and Payables.
What is the Budget Sheet?
What is the Budget Sheet?
The Budget sheet is when we try to the best of our abilities to "Call our shot". This is the rock foundation of a company and the level of success we hope for is directly tied to our ability to remain disciplined to this document.
What is a Purchase Order?
What is a Purchase Order?
A PO is when we want to request spending money. The PO will be submitted to the Accounting Meeting to be reviewed and paid.
What is a Request for Budget Increase?
What is a Request for Budget Increase?
There will be times when our crystal ball will have been foggy, and we have underestimated the amount of money needed for a certain budget component. The Request process is how we document increasing that budget.
What is Triple Bottom Line Accounting?
3BL Accounting is the process and action that results in measuring and optimizing not only the financial bottom line of a company's performance, but also the impact that company or project has on the Earth and how it feels to work with and within the company or project.
People
People
Is your business making people happy? Does it provide joy and will the experience or product be remembered?
Planet
Planet
How do we dispose of trash and recycling? How do we package? How do our associates disopose of trash and recycle?
Profit
Profit
Admittedly, without proper financial management, inclusive of strong and connected marketing, we cannot fund the other two ideals. 3BL
What are the "Zones" about?
In Permaculture the Zones are the invisible lines that segregate how much energy and attention we give to a certain part of our garden or homestead. In our business, those zones have been translated to segregate each department into categories based on how much we have to interact with them. By no means, is it a ranking in fact Zone 5 and Zone 0 are measurably linked to each other and one cannot function without the transparency and communication of the other.
Zone 0
Zone 0
Operating Agreements, Legal Docs and Templates, Banking Information, The Safe. Finance.
Zone 1
Zone 1
Meeting Notes, Cash Sheets.
Zone 2
Production, Operations, AR, Trash, Security, Catering
Zone 3
Most Transactions. Merch, Bars, Vending, Art Gallery
Zone 4
Regenerative zone. Yoga, Glamping, Anything we don't actually manage
Zone 5
Brand, Reputation, Most of Marketing
THE 12 JEWLEZ METHOD OF ACCOUNTING
As a functiion of growth both within the business and within a person, having a structured approach to defining when and how to grow is very important. The RZA wrote the book "The Tao of Wu", and within it's pages and within his music are mathematical principles for how to be the best human you can be. Applying these stages to a business, a decision or a series of transactions can help you see various angles and consequences. We've developed a system to track these moves, and we look forward to sharing with our clients.
Learning
Knowledge
Wisdom
Understanding
Mental Awareness
Freedom
Justice
Equality
Physical Awareness
Food
Clothing
Shelter
Heaven
Love
Peace
Happiness
The Big Picture
The Big Picture
Once contracts are in place, budgets are aligned, and accounting meetings are consistently attended with full participation, a steady calm settles over the business. The noise of uncertainty quiets, and the path ahead—though sometimes obscured like a dense fog—becomes one of focus and intention. In this zone, trust and transparency flow naturally through the organization, attracting alignment like magnets.
It is in this environment that creativity thrives. If we have saved wisely, resources can be directed toward art. If we have managed our time with care, we can invest in planting gardens. The discipline of structure creates the space for beauty to flourish.
The Accounting Equation
ASSETS = LIABILITIES + OWNER'S EQUITY
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