Forensic Cost Strategy for High-Velocity Turnarounds.

The Physics of the Floorboard. The Reality of the Ledger.

Most industrial financial statements are missing their most critical line items. Traditional GAAP accounting and modern ERP software treat distance as an abstract variable and time as a lagging indicator. When a boardroom approves an overseas procurement contract to capture a favorable piece-price variance, standard ledgers mark it as a victory.

What they fail to track is the physical reality: the capital-freezing defensive safety stocks, the devastating quality-information lags, and the spatial friction that actively destroys corporate liquidity. True financial health is an emergent property of shopfloor velocity.

For over five decades, T.G. Nathan has audited corporate ledgers, exposed hidden operational liabilities, and advised chief executives on bridging the dangerous chasm between boardroom dashboards and physical manufacturing realities.

Forthcoming Publication

A HANDBOOK FOR DISCRETE MANUFACTURING STARTUPS & CONSULTANTS

Most venture-backed discrete manufacturing startups never run out of great engineering ideas. They run out of money.

Long before your Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is ready for commercial launch, your runway evaporates. Where did the capital go? It bled out silently through invisible operational waste built directly into your early planning stages. Traditional accounting tells you where your money went after it is already gone. To survive, you need to treat financial efficiency like a hard engineering specification.

The HANDBOOK shows how invisible leaks happen, and how to prevent it, in clear and actionable detail. See https://www.tgnathan.com/handbook