Built to Last — What Strong Business Finances Actually Look Like

July was about freedom. This episode is about what you build on it.In the month-closing episode of Books & Backbone, Donna Harris walks through the five specific markers of a business that is actually built to last — not built on a good month, not built on strong revenue, but built on a financial foundation solid enough to hold whatever comes next.Clean books maintained consistently. A profit and loss that tells the truth. A balance sheet that accounts for everything. Cash flow visibility 90 days out. And the quarterly conversation that translates numbers into decisions.She talks about what those five things make possible — capital, partners, confident hiring decisions, a business you can actually sell someday — and closes with something personal: her family has been building things in America since the 1600s. Four ancestors fought in the Revolution. What that history has given her is a conviction that you don't build something real by hoping it works out.This is the episode that closes July and opens the door to August. Worth the full listen.Donna Harris, MBA, MAccCEO, Bookkeeping Made Simple LLCmysimplebookkeeping.com | 801-692-0032