Insights & Resources
Guides, tips, and strategies to help you run your business finances.
Introducing CashSheet Workbooks: The Spreadsheet That Works Like a Database
Our name has always promised a better cash sheet. Today we ship one: collaborative workbooks with typed columns, money exact to the cent, live formulas, receipt attachments, and one-click templates for the daily cash count, petty cash log, and cash book.
What Is a Cash Sheet? Daily Cash Counts, Petty Cash Logs, and Cash Books Explained
A cash sheet is the daily log that answers one question: is the cash that should be here actually here? Here's how the three classic cash sheets work, the mistakes that quietly corrupt them, and free templates that do the math for you.
Close Your Register in Five Minutes: The Daily Cash Count Template
Counting a drawer isn't hard — doing it the same way every night, with the math beyond argument, is. A walkthrough of the denomination counter template: count bills, totals compute themselves, over/short has nowhere to hide.
WeightSheet: Catch Weight Billing for Odoo, Now on the Odoo Apps Store
Odoo makes you choose — track a product in units or in weight, never both. Our new WeightSheet addon ends that: order in pieces, weigh every case at pack-out, and bill the invoice from actual pounds. Live now for Odoo 18 and 19.
What Is Catch Weight? Why Fixed-Weight Billing Quietly Leaks Margin
A leg of lamb is priced per pound, but no two legs weigh the same. Bill from the catalog weight and the variance comes out of somebody's pocket — usually yours. Here's how catch weight billing works, and what it takes to do it honestly.
From Scale to Invoice: Weighing Every Case Straight Into Odoo
Catch weight billing is only as good as the weights you capture. We built a weigh-station terminal that talks to Mettler-Toledo and CAS bench scales, refuses in-motion readings, works offline, and lands every case weight on the right Odoo delivery line.
Should You Grind It? Pricing the Cut-or-Grind Decision When Premium Cuts Stall
Middle meats slow down, grind demand holds, and the carcass keeps yielding the same primals. Grinding a ribeye isn't a fallback — it's a margin decision with an opportunity cost, and it changes every day the market does.
We Run Our Own Farm on CashSheet: Dorper Sheep at Cosmic Family Farms
CashSheet wasn't built in a vacuum — our founder's family farm raises Dorper sheep and runs its availability, orders, and books on the same platform we sell. Here's what running a real flock on your own software teaches you.
The Order Desk: AI Order Intake That Knows What Your Plant Can Actually Cut
Your customers order by email, text, and voicemail — and they're not going to change. Order Desk reads the message, matches every line to your catalog, asks the LP what's feasible, and drafts the reply. A person confirms every order.
When Everything Costs More: How an LP Solver Finds the Margin That's Still There
Cattle at multi-year highs. Diesel up. Wages up. Buyers won't take a price hike. Margins compress — but they don't disappear. The LP finds them in five places most plants don't look.
The 6 AM Walk-Around: What Plant Managers Look At First
By 6:10 a plant manager knows whether today is going to be a good day or a bad one. They looked at three or four numbers in a specific order — and that order is the difference between running the plant and reacting to it.
USDA Beef Grades, Explained: How Prime, Choice, and Select Get Decided
Every beef carcass in the country is scored on two scales — quality (palatability) and yield (cutability). Here's how Prime, Choice, Select, and the rest are actually decided, straight from the USDA standards.
Your Yield Matrix Is the Most Valuable Spreadsheet in Your Plant
Every cost number on your P&L flows through the yield matrix. Most plants run theirs in Excel on one laptop. Here's what changes when it lives in your operating system instead.
Linear Programming: How a 70-Year-Old Algorithm Powers Modern Operations
From airline schedules to refinery yields to your daily fab plan — linear programming finds the best answer among billions of possibilities in milliseconds. Here's how it works.
IMPS 100: The Beef Buyer's Catalog That Everyone Speaks
When a sales order line says '112A' or '189A,' it's not made up. IMPS 100 is the USDA-maintained spec sheet that gives every beef cut a universal code — and your buyers expect you to speak it.
Reading the Dual: What Your LP Solution Is Really Telling You
When you solve a linear program you get two answers, not one. The second is buried in the output and it might be more useful — here's how to read it.
OEE for Meat Plants: Why the Textbook Formula Doesn't Fit
Overall Equipment Effectiveness was invented for car assembly lines. The math collapses the moment you try to apply it to a fab floor — and the operationally mature plants have already moved on.
How USDA Measures Your Ribeye: Pick's Theorem on the Plant Floor
USDA graders use a plastic grid and a 125-year-old mathematical theorem to measure ribeye area to the tenth of a square inch. Here's how it works — and why a one-square-inch difference moves the yield grade by 30 percent.
From Shift Handoff to Journal Entry: The Chain That Should Be Invisible
Between a truck leaving the dock and a journal entry hitting the GL, most plants have four to seven manual steps. Each one is a place where the books drift from reality.
Traceability Without the Binder: Lot Tracking That Survives an Audit
FSIS regulations require beef plants to trace finished product back to source carcasses. The textbook answer is paper logs and a binder. The real-world answer in most plants is several binders, three spreadsheets, and a phone call.
Double-Entry Accounting Explained for Growing Businesses
Every transaction has two sides. Here's why that matters and how CashSheet makes it effortless for businesses that have outgrown spreadsheets.
How LP-Based Production Planning Transforms Meat Processing
Manual fab planning leaves margin on the table every shift. See how linear programming finds the optimal cut mix in under 100 ms.
Tenant Isolation: Why Your Accounting Data Deserves Its Own Database
Shared multi-tenant databases are a cost optimization, not a security feature. Here's how silo architecture protects your financial data.
Why Your POS Should Talk to Your Books in Real Time
End-of-day reconciliation is a symptom of disconnected systems. Integrated POS means every sale posts a journal entry the moment it happens.
FIFO vs. Weighted Average: Choosing the Right Inventory Valuation
The method you pick affects your COGS, your tax bill, and your financial statements. Here's how to decide.
Available-to-Promise: Stop Overcommitting on Sales Orders
CutSheet's ATP check tells your sales reps in real time whether the LP can honor a line item before the quote goes out.