Welcome to the Cash Management Cab

For years, I loved watching the show Cash Cab - unsuspecting New Yorkers get thrown into trivia in the backseat of a taxi. Answer right and earn cash. Net three strikes and you’re kicked to the curb.

So when our cash product rapidly started gaining traction and rave reviews from customers, we thought of no better way to bring eyes on the product than to resurrect the show. Our version: the Cash Management Cab.

After all, with racing the clock to cut down time to close, rapidly matching transactions, and identifying the JE that resulted in an account no longer tying out — accounting can already feel like a high pressure game show. 

So we reached out to Ben Bailey, the original host of the show. He had the original cab in his garage. The rest is history. 

Here’s what we produced: 

THE ACCOUNTING CUT

How many people know what GAAP stands for? Only a few, it turns out. We grilled unsuspecting New Yorkers and accountants with finance questions. Some excelled, others decidedly did not. 

THE TRAILER

A more classic version of the show - no accounting specifics, but a mix of customers and New Yorkers fielding trivia questions with big reactions. 

‍THE FULL EPISODE

If you’re a trivia buff, play along. Close to a full length episode, Ben Bailey slings questions to 5 taxis worth of participants. 

THE BEHIND THE SCENES

Real email threads. Slacks. And the Zoom calls that kicked off Cash Management Cab. See how it all came together. 

Why we made this

Earning a CPA takes years of education. Keeping it active requires even more with CPE.

Yet every week we meet accountants stuck in basic Excel work, manually matching transactions, or caught in a cycle of exporting, downloading, uploading every close. 

The Cash Management Cab was a fun way to prove a serious point - accountants have deep technical knowledge (and, we learned, excel at regular trivia too!). 

That expertise is hard won. And it shouldn’t be spent on busywork. 

So let Numeric handle the in-the-weeds work (pulling together recurring custom reports, monitoring data quality, matching transactions, or providing visibility into the close), and put your training toward the parts of the job that actually call for it: the judgment, the analysis, the operational backbone and infrastructure. 

Become a finance engineer.