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Follow the Yellow Brick Road to Financial Mastery:
A Brilliant Three-Part Process to Building a Balanced and Profitable Budget.
THE CASHFLOW CANVAS
The Cashflow Canvas is your financial North Star, guiding you along the Yellow Brick Road to the bank and beyond.
Unlike traditional budgeting tools, this innovative system helps you not just fill in numbers but truly understand and map them out.
With The Cashflow Canvas, you’ll gain clarity, control, and confidence to navigate your financials, so every dollar you earn plays a meaningful role in your success.
Where the dreams that you dare to dream come true.
Did You Know? 82% of founders fail because they don’t know how to build or balance a budget. Don’t be part of that statistic—master your finances with The Cashflow Canvas and set your business up for success.
Championed by leading lenders, economic developers, and educators ...
1. Learn the Landscape:
Step onto the Yellow Brick Road and begin your journey by understanding the big picture. Here, you’ll learn the eight essential building blocks of your budget and see how your financial statements interlock like puzzle pieces, ensuring no piece gets lost in the shuffle
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The Three-Part Process.
The Cashflow Canvas, inspired by the Business Model Canvas is designed for one thing: to help you master your numbers. It enables founders to ideate and sketch out their financials with intention and strategy. Before you even touch a spreadsheet, you’ll understand how each decision connects—giving you the power to take control and build a budget that actually works.
2. Load the Palette:
Next, you’ll sketch out your numbers using the Cashflow Canvas Sketchbook. This step allows you to work through each of the eight building blocks, ensuring that you can fully conceptualize and test your numbers before putting them into action.
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3. Fill the Forecast:
Finally, you’ll bring it all together. With the Cashflow Canvas in hand, you’ll fill out your forecast, balance your budget, and watch as your financial picture becomes crystal clear. For every dollar coming in, you’ll know exactly where it goes, whether it’s fueling direct costs, indirect costs, profitability, or taxes—so your bank account stays in the black.
I found I could say things with color
that I couldn't say any other way;
things I had no words for.
—Georgia O'Keeffe
The Eight Building Blocks.
The Cashflow Canvas is built around eight essential building blocks, each representing a critical component of your business’s financial foundation.
Revenue Streams: The main ways your business earns money from selling products or services.
Direct Costs: The specific costs tied directly to producing a product or delivering a service, like materials and labour.
Price Points: The strategic decision on how much to charge for your products or services, based on costs, competition, and customer value.
Assumptions: The expectations around customer buying behavior and payment timing that impact when your business gets paid.
Team + Personnel Costs: The expenses related to hiring, salaries, and benefits for your team members.
Space + Operating Costs: The expenses related to your business location, utilities, and day-to-day operational needs.
Marketing + Sales: The investment in activities that drive customer acquisition and revenue growth.
Other Costs: Miscellaneous expenses like loan repayments, contingency funds, and depreciation.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. The intersection of color, creativity, and numbers reveals the extraordinary in the ordinary.
—Aaron Rose
Start Your Journey to Financial Mastery.
Step 1: Download the free Cashflow Canvas Palette + Colour Key to start mapping your financial roadmap.
Step 2: Enroll in the Cashflow Canvas Online Blueprint and equip yourself with everything you need to succeed. Here's what you get:
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Comprehensive Training: Dive deep into the eight building blocks of budgeting with step-by-step tutorials designed to help you understand your financials from every angle.
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Essential Tools: Access exclusive tools that simplify the budgeting process and help you map out your financial future with clarity and precision.
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Thriving Community: Join a community of like-minded founders who are on the same journey. Share insights, ask questions, and learn together in a supportive environment.
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On-Call Support: Need help along the way? You’ll have access to our dedicated support team, available to answer your questions and provide guidance whenever you need it.
Step 3: Find your own Glinda—one of our certified Cashflow Canvas Coaches—to guide you along the Yellow Brick Road to success. [Coming January 2025]
THE CASHFLOW CANVAS AND ALL COMPANION TOOLS WERE CREATED BY TAUNYA WOODS RICHARDSON, FOUNDER + CEO, OF NAIL THE NUMBERS, INC. WW.NAILTHENUMBERS.COM
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/legalcode
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Download Your Free
Cashflow Canvas Palette + Colour Key
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
—Maya Angelou
Lead Others on Their Yellow Brick Road—Become a Certified Cashflow Canvas Coach
You Know the Numbers—Now Lead the Way. As a bookkeeper, lender, economic developer, or educator, you already have the expertise to analyze and manage finances. But what if you could take that knowledge further? Imagine guiding Founders to master their own numbers, empowering them to build thriving, financially resilient businesses—while growing your impact, reputation, and income.
Join us for a FREE Information session and discover how becoming a Certified Cashflow Canvas Coach can transform your career and the lives of the business owners you support.
Why Become a Certified Cashflow Canvas Coach?
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Unlock the Power of Certification: Gain exclusive tools and strategies to help business owners achieve financial mastery, positioning yourself as the go-to expert they trust.
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Accelerate Your Growth: Expand your expertise, open new income streams, and establish yourself as a respected leader in the entrepreneurial community.
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Be Part of Something Bigger: Join a thriving global network of Cashflow Canvas Coaches who are transforming lives and reshaping the future of business.
Your Next Step Starts Here
Our Information Session is your chance to get a first look at how you can play a pivotal role in helping entrepreneurs turn financial dreams into reality.
Date: May 23, 2025
Time: 1 PM PT // 4 PM ET
Where: Via Zoom