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The Amos Ilgenfritz Series

Free Cash Flow is the air left in your lungs.

Four business novels that teach the disciplines of cash. Through story, not lecture.

01
Amos Ilgenfritz and the Ebb & Flow
Cash Flow
02
Amos Is Getting Paid
AR & Collections
03
Amos Ilgenfritz and the Penny Squeeze
Margin Defense
04
Amos Ilgenfritz and the Ratchet Reckoning
Working Capital
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About the Author

Overview

Overview

Amos Ilgenfritz runs a robotics company. It is profitable. It is growing. In the first book, it nearly runs out of cash. Over four novels, Amos and his team face every version of that same problem: unpaid invoices, shrinking margins, and a working capital trap tightening one sensible decision at a time.

Each book stands on its own. Together, they teach the whole discipline of cash. And they all come back to the same truth.

A business does not live on profit. It lives on cash.

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Cash Flow

Amos Ilgenfritz and the Ebb & Flow

Unlock the Power of Cash Flow to Build an Exceptional Business

Sales are up. Profits are up. The bank account is nearly empty. This book explains how that happens, and teaches you to read the movement of cash through a business so it never blindsides you again.

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02

AR & Collections

Amos Is Getting Paid

It’s Not Sold Until You Have the Cash

 The orders are strong and the invoices are going out, but the money is not coming home. Winning the sale and collecting the cash are two different jobs. An invoice is not money. Cash is money.

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03

Margin Defense

Amos Ilgenfritz and the Penny Squeeze

Defend Your Margins to Fund Growth from the Inside

Revenue keeps climbing while the margin sits still, and no one can say where the money went. This is how you find the costs quietly eating a business alive, and fund your growth from the inside without handing control to outside money.

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04

Working Capital

Amos Ilgenfritz and the Ratchet Reckoning

Master Working Capital to Keep a Business Alive

 The debt crept in one sensible decision at a time, until a company that looked healthy could no longer move. The cure for a cash trap is hidden behind the trap itself. This is the discipline of keeping the slack a business needs to survive a hard year.

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The Financial Statements

of Ilgenfritz Robotics Corp.

Click the download button below to save the financial statements of Ilgenfritz Robotics Corp. These are the financial statements used by Amos Ilgenfritz as he works to solve the cash flow crisis he is having.

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About the Author

Gregory Brickner

Gregory Brickner is a CFO who is passionate about cash flow.

He has spent more than two decades figuring out the hard performance problems inside companies trying to reach a higher tier of growth, across healthcare, technology, and manufacturing. The work has taken him through firms on Main Street and business units inside large corporations, which turn out to share more constraints than either likes to admit. Through all of it, he has believed the same thing. Free cash flow comes first. A company that generates its own cash controls its own future. A company that does not will eventually answer to someone who does.

He likes things done fast, distrusts complexity that does not earn its keep, and when it takes six signatures to buy a cup of coffee, he goes a little nuts.

Gregory writes The Amos Ilgenfritz Series, business novels that teach the discipline of cash through the story of one company learning to survive its own success. 

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