How to Make Friends with Your Numbers (Even if Math Traumatized You in High School)
Your numbers aren’t out to get you—they’re here to help you.
8/28/20251 min read
How to Make Friends with Your Numbers (Even if Math Traumatized You in High School)
Good news: you don’t need calculus to run your business. (You don’t even need to remember what “cosine” means.)
What you do need is the ability to glance at your numbers and answer a few simple questions:
Can I pay myself?
Can I pay my team?
Can I buy the good office snacks instead of the off-brand ones?
That’s where your Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet come in. They aren’t scary spreadsheets—they’re basically a cheat sheet for your business health.
P&L (Profit & Loss): Shows what’s coming in, what’s going out, and if you’re actually making money or just working really hard for nothing.
Balance Sheet: Tells you what you own vs. what you owe—a snapshot of your financial strength.
When you know how to read these two reports, you stop guessing and start making smarter decisions.
And that's probably be a whole lot more useful than memorizing the quadratic formula.
