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No plan to print yet.

What happened.

Log each period as it closes: what each product sold, what it cost, what is left; and the business's cash.

Logging what happened does not change the plan. It is what the plan and your targets are measured against.

How often you log

First, say how often you will log: each week, or each month. Nothing can be logged until you do.


A week that straddles two months shares its sales and costs by the days in each. A month with unlogged weeks shows only what was logged, and says how many days that covers.

Check a past deal

Pick the month a deal started and tell TDE what happened. It puts the plan it would have given you then beside what happened, in pounds.


Next: actual against target, month by month

Shipping figures to
18 OctIMF PortWatch daily chokepoint transits (ArcGIS) is published 10 days behind, as a rule. This reading is 2 days behind, inside what we publish for it.
· Prices to
Aug 2026HMRC uktradeinfo OTS (trade value + mass) is published 75 days behind, as a rule. This reading is 80 days behind, later than what we publish for it.
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Trade to Apr 2026.