CPA Reveals: "Follow the Money, Find Your Answers" | Albert Butler

Send us Fan Mail **Albert Butler, CPA, MBA spent 25+ years reading numbers—not just for businesses, but for families who think they're building legacy until the math says otherwise. His philosophy: if you follow the money, you'll find answers about your priorities, your values, what you're actually building. Your bank account tells truth about your life—not intentions, not hopes, the truth. Most people aren't building legacy, they're busy but not aligned, in motion but not meaningful.** **Introduction:** **Most people think accounting is boring. Spreadsheets, tax codes, numbers that put you to sleep. But here's what a CPA sees that you don't: your bank account is telling the truth about your life. Not the version you tell yourself. Not your intentions. The truth.** **Where your money goes—that's your priorities. How you spend your time—that's what you actually value. What you're building—that's what you'll leave behind.** **Albert Butler, CPA, MBA has spent 25+ years reading those numbers for businesses, families, and leaders who think they're building something until the math reveals they're just staying busy. Father of four, author of "LIFE: Truth, Love, Loss, Success & Failure," Albert's philosophy is simple but powerful: accounting is the heartbeat of business and the key to personal finance success.** **This conversation reveals the five muscles of enterprise (leadership, operations, sales, IT, accounting) using the human body analogy that will change how you see your business, why running your business on cash flow instead of the balance sheet is the biggest red flag, the Plan-Act-Review framework Albert uses daily, why there's no Plan B (only Plan A with focus), the Circle of Dreams exercise for inventorying what you're actually trying to accomplish, Train-Practice-Work methodology for building entrepreneurial muscle, biggest commingling mistakes that turn tax time into nightmares, and the "I can because I will" mindset that separates champions from quitters.** **Albert proves that accounting isn't about counting money—it's about telling the past (financial reporting/taxes), the present (treasury/cash management), and the future (financial planning/analysis). It's a fortune teller. And if you don't monitor that heartbeat, you'll have a heart attack and the business will die.** **Who is Albert Butler:** **Albert Butler, CPA, MBA is Resident Partner-in-Charge of a national accounting firm with 25+ years leading with integrity, strategy, and purpose. Father of four, youth coach, servant leader, Albert's philosophy: accounting is the heartbeat of business and key to personal finance success. Author of "LIFE: Truth, Love, Loss, Success & Failure," his anchor scripture is Proverbs 13:22—"a good man leaves an inheritance for his children's children." Albert helps entrepreneurs and families build aligned, scalable, transferable enterprises through frameworks like Plan-Act-Review, Train-Practice-Work, and Circle of Dreams. His mission: help people build lives and businesses they can exit with peace, not regret.** **5 KEY TAKEAWAYS:** **1. Five Muscles of Enterprise (Human Body Analogy) - Leadership (head/thoughts), Operations (feet/movement/production), Sales (arms/giving to world), IT (vascular system/data flow), Accounting (heart/balancing/equilibrium). These five muscles must be flexed consistently. Accounting tells past (reporting/taxes), present (treasury/cash), future (FP&A planning). If you don't monitor heartbeat, you'll have heart attack and business dies.** **2. Three Ways to Run Business—Graduate to Balance Sheet - Elementary way: cash flow (check to check, lights on). Graduate to P&L/Income Statement (revenue budgeting, expense control). Most powerful: Balance Sheet (making investments that return revenue consistently—vending machines, equipment that depreciates and generates cash until no longer viable). Running business off balance sheet is 100% guarantee you're graduating in entrepreneurial space.** **3. Train, Practice, Work Framework - Train on your own (reading books, learning from mentors' failures to maximize toward your success). Practice with cohorts (entrepreneurs going through same things in real time, holding each other accountable with similar mindsets). Work is the game/arena/fun (you've trained solo, practiced together, had mentors feed into you—now you walk it, talk it, feel it in your soul). Who are you really trying to become?** **4. Plan-Act-Review (Daily Ritual, Not Team Exercise) - Not about team, about YOU. Scale yourself first. Daily routine: write down plan (don't overthink/analysis paralysis), act upon it quickly, REVIEW (biggest mistake people skip)—give yourself feedback on what went well, what to do better, how to approach next time. Becomes habit that flexes entrepreneurial muscles. Creates consistency that produces rewards.** **5. No Plan B, Only Plan A—Circle of Dreams - There's no Plan B. Plan A requires focus, consistency, diligence. When you stop, very next day was the breakthrough. Inventory your dreams—Circle of Dreams exercise: write down what you're truly trying to accomplish 20+ years out. What's in that circle IS Plan A. Allows you to say YES to good opportunities, NO to bad ones that don't align. Plan A might not be this one business—might be learning from this one to prepare for next one that lines up with Plan A in the circle.** **CONNECT WITH ALBERT BUTLER: 🌐 Website: albertbutler.com**  **🔍 Google: "Albert Butler CPA" (3 pages of info)**  **📖 Book: "LIFE: Truth, Love, Loss, Success & Failure"**  **💼 LinkedIn: Search Albert Butler CPA MBA** **Partner Offers: Wise 👉** https://wise.prf.hn/l/QLyNwLz **Music Credit: XMPLA** https://youtu.be/p9re3wWvCLo?si=zni260AfeO5rOZvS **#AlbertButler #CPA #AccountingIsHeartbeat #FollowTheMoney #FiveMusacles #PlanActReview #TrainPracticeWork #CircleOfDreams #NoPlanB #ICanBecauseIWill #LegacyAlignment #EntrepreneurMindset #FinancialPlanning #BusinessStrategy #LindaVo #InspiredBySuccess** Support the show  To watch the podcast on video on my YouTube channel go to: https://www.youtube.com/@InspiredbysuccesswithLindaVo