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How real businesses make money: where the margin actually sits, what the cash is doing, which costs matter, and why profitable companies still run out of money.

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Why a profitable month can still leave you short

Profit and cash answer different questions. A business can be genuinely profitable and genuinely unable to pay its suppliers in the same month — and the reason is usually timing, not trouble.

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