We need to track production costs to run payroll compliant with states and countries, to evaluate profit and loss by team and project, and to maintain a proper accounts receivable.
The opposite would be accounts receivable, and accounts receivable are the people that take the money in - keep track of the money that the company gets from its customers.
So we didn't need every penny from a cash flow perspective, because obviously, media companies, the accounts receivable and then you might you might need 30 6090 or 120 days just to get paid.