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The Jesse Mecham Show

298 - Loose Change, or Lose Change?

The Jesse Mecham Show

YNAB

Kids & Family, Education

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2017

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

At what point should you stop tracking cash?

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0:00.0

Hello, Winebbers, my name is Jesse Meek, and this is podcast number 298.

0:08.0

For Wineb, where we teach you four rules to help you stop looking paycheck to pay check,

0:12.0

get out of debt and save more money.

0:15.0

What to do with loose change or lose the change perhaps?

0:20.0

Should you lose the change?

0:21.0

Do you track your cash? Just a little quick input for me as

0:26.8

far as tracking your cash. If you're dealing with a fairly small amount of cash and

0:31.6

you need to determine what small is, because I might say

0:34.7

$500, and just one person, they're like, that's not small, that's half my budget.

0:38.8

For someone else, they're like, well, $500, yeah, of course, you know, why would I worry about that?

0:42.2

Whatever it is.

0:43.0

You need to determine what amount is what we would call in the audit world

0:46.9

immaterial to you, meaning if you lost it, it wouldn't be a big deal.

0:51.9

If you didn't know where it went it wouldn't be a big deal.

0:55.7

You may not lose it like oh shoot it just flew out the window but do I have to know in

1:01.3

particular where this money went or can I just let it be?

1:05.8

And there's a threshold there of materiality.

1:08.7

And you just want to make sure that anything below that you really just don't care about. And this is coming from a guy who has a very low materiality threshold.

1:18.0

I like to know where everything's gone. Ask the leadership team when I have to ask them where all the money is gone in the

1:23.8

business what was this what was that what was this for ten dollars what was that

1:27.0

that's the life they have to live here at Wineb one of just laser focused scrutiny on the spending but that keeps us

1:36.4

keeps us same keeps us humble keeps us grateful so I'm glad for it So I have a low threshold for materiality. You may have a little higher than that. What I'm saying is in the cash situation where you're saying should I track my cash? Should not I've got this change listen if you didn't

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