PILLAR · MONEY
Money
One of the four pillars of your Business Strength Score, worth 25%. cash, pricing, invoicing, and finally knowing your numbers.
WHAT IT MEASURES
What Money measures
Money measures whether you know, control, and can grow your finances, and whether any of it is provable. It’s the survival pillar: cash problems end more businesses than anything else, so a weak Money pillar is the first thing the score flags.
WHAT EARNS POINTS
How you build this pillar
Start. Open a business bank account, separate personal and business finances, track income and expenses, set basic pricing, review your money monthly.
Build. Use real accounting software, produce monthly profit & loss statements, reconcile your accounts, know your margins, work with an accountant.
Grow. Track financial metrics, forecast revenue and cash flow, analyze profitability by product or service, build a financial strategy for reinvestment.
Exit. Keep clean statements and years of history, normalize the books, stay consistently profitable, and be ready for due diligence.
HOW TO RAISE IT
Raising your Money score
The fastest points are the provable ones: connect your bank so your money is tracked, and sync your books so your P&L and margins are real, not claimed. From there, monthly reviews and a simple forecast move you into Grow.
THE BUSINESS STRENGTH SCORE GUIDE
Explore the guide
- What is a Business Strength Score?
- How your score is calculated
- Score ranges: Start, Build, Grow, Exit
- The Money pillar (you are here)
- The Customers pillar
- The Work pillar
- The Management pillar
- Proof, not claims
- The Verified Score
- How your score changes over time
- How to raise your score
- How to build business strength
- Myths about business strength
- vs. a credit score
- vs. business credit scores
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