The Ash, Hubert and Kevin Podcast

Author: Ash, Hubert & Kevin Pod

Welcome to the Ash, Hubert & Kevin Pod (AHK). We share finance stories, lessons, and mistakes to help business owners and finance pros understand sometimes complex concepts. Our aim is for you to leave each episode thinking, "Ah, okay. I get it now." About the hosts: Ash: Husband, dad, and strategic finance leader with more qualifications than letters in the alphabet. Hubert: Husband, dad, and the technical finance leader with a passion for anything with engines. Kevin: Husband, dad, finance leader by day, side hustle builder by night!
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EP 16: "That's Not How It Works" — Why Operations Ignores Finance
Tuesday, 18 August, 2026

Ops doesn't ignore finance because they're difficult. They ignore finance because we keep showing up after the decision has already been made.In this episode of AccountDads, the boys unpack the gap between what finance reports and what operations actually does — and why that gap quietly wrecks your credibility as a business partner.We get into the month where margins "collapsed" and it turned out nobody had dropped the ball at all — leave hit 25% against a 20% budgeted average, revenue dropped, and there was suddenly no margin left to absorb overheads. Nothing operational had broken. Finance just couldn't explain it.