At the beginning of this chapter, we called cash the life source of your business. If it is your life source, then it must be respected; ignoring your cash is not respecting it. In this chapter, we built a terrific tool to keep your business's cash flow on track.

It is similar to a sign in a dentist's office that reads: "you do not have to floss all your teeth, just the ones you want to keep."

Now that we are in the habit of monitoring our cash flow, we'll take a look at how we can better manage our payables.