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EP 16: "That's Not How It Works" — Why Operations Ignores Finance

EP 16: "That's Not How It Works" — Why Operations Ignores Finance18 Aug27 min

<p>Ops doesn&#39;t ignore finance because they&#39;re difficult. They ignore finance because we keep showing up after the decision has already been made.</p><p>In this episode of AccountDads, the boys unpack the gap between what finance reports and what operations actually does — and why that gap quietly wrecks your credibility as a business partner.</p><p>We get into the month where margins &quot;collapsed&quot; and it turned out nobody had dropped the ball at all — leave hit 25% against a 20% budgeted average, revenue dropped, and there was suddenly no margin left to absorb overheads. Nothing operational had broken. Finance just couldn&#39;t explain it.</p><p><br></p>