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Small businesses have long treated cash flow management as an afterthought, tallying expenses after the money is gone. Now, financial platforms are folding payments, payroll, credit and lending into one system that can see money moving both ways — and predict where it is headed.

If I could own a business expanding its top-line sales by 34% year over year while converting 18 cents of every incoming dollar straight into raw, unencumbered cash, I wouldn’t sell it. That’s precisely the cash-generation profile Shopify (TSX: SHOP) stock attained recently. While Bay Street endlessly debates the e-commerce giant’s high valuation multiples, Shopify’s…