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Managerial Finance

Financial models that help operators decide what to do next.

Small-business finance is less about perfect reporting and more about making source records useful for pricing, hiring, collections, spend, cash planning, and margin decisions.

Core Questions

  • What financial signals should operators see before a decision is made?

  • How should messy chart-of-accounts data map into planning models without hiding uncertainty?

  • Which accounting facts need provenance because they affect advice, compliance, or trust?

Artifacts

  • WACCY financial modeling contracts.

  • QuickBooks and EDGAR extraction paths.

  • Three-statement modeling notes.

What It Means

Where It Shows Up

Planning Views

Convert accounting exports and statements into operator-facing planning views.

Repeatable Analysis

Support cash, margin, unit economics, and scenario planning with clear assumptions.

Workflow Evidence

Connect financial evidence to actions in HatTrick workflows.

Why It Matters

How This Research Gets Used

Applied

Product direction

Research themes shape product workflows, internal evaluation, and open-source implementation choices.

Evidence

Reviewable decisions

The work emphasizes assumptions, provenance, and feedback loops that humans can inspect.

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Financial models that help operators decide what to do next.