Finances · updated 2026-08-08

How to read the truck gauges in Finances

The "Truck gauges" card ("Your money, read like a dashboard") turns three financial ratios into dials styled like a truck's instrument panel, colored green, amber, or red as the needle moves.

  1. Profit margin

    "What you keep of every dollar." The dial runs from 0 to 100 and shows your profit margin for the selected period. It reads green at healthy margins, amber in the middle range, and red when the margin gets thin.

  2. Collection tank

    "Invoiced money already in the tank." Marked E to F like a fuel gauge, it shows how much of what you invoiced has already been collected. A full tank means little or nothing is sitting unpaid.

  3. Expense heat

    "Expenses share of what came in." Marked C to H like a temperature gauge, it shows expenses as a share of the money received. Cool (green) is good; a hot red needle means expenses are eating most of what came in.

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