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Cash · the 6 C’s

What you actually need to earn

“I want $X in my pocket” is a wish. Work back through costs, tax and super and it turns into a real revenue target.

Start with the life you want

Two figures. What you want left in your pocket after tax — and what it costs to run the business before you pay yourself a cent.

Your take-home after personal tax — the money that reaches your bank account and stays there.
Everything it spends to operate before paying you: rent, stock, software, insurance, wages for others. Not your own drawings.
To keep that after tax, you’d need to draw
Enter your numbers to begin.
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The revenue you need
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Once your figures are in, you’ll see the revenue the business has to make for the take-home you want.

The same target, broken down

A yearly figure is easy to nod at. Here’s what it asks of you in the spans you actually work in — and where each dollar of it goes.

Revenue per month
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What the business needs to bring in, monthly.
Revenue per week
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The weekly number behind the yearly one.
›What does that mean in sales?

A revenue number is abstract. Customers and jobs aren’t. Enter your average sale and see how many it takes.

One customer, one job, one invoice — on average.
Sales you’d need in a year:
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That’s the target made concrete — something you can plan a week and a pipeline around.

A wish you can’t see, you can’t hit.
A number you can.

Now the real question: do you get there by selling more, charging more, or keeping more of each dollar? Usually it’s a mix — and that mix is a plan worth building deliberately. No pressure, no pitch.

This is one room of six. The 6C Health Check looks at the whole business — Clarity, Customer, Culture, Compliance, Consistency & Cash — and turns targets like this into a way forward.

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