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Month by month

Money in. And what was left.

Same twelve months, side by side. The blue bar is what you billed. The green one is what you still had after paying for it all.

Money in What you kept What you lost
Money in and what you kept, month by month Twelve months. Money in runs from $58,000 in March to $118,000 in August. What you kept runs from minus $6,000 in October to $38,000 in August. $120k $90k $60k $30k $0 Jan · money in $62,000 Jan · kept $14,000 Jan Feb · money in $71,000 Feb · kept $18,000 Feb Mar · money in $58,000 Mar · kept $9,000 Mar Apr · money in $94,000 Apr · kept $27,000 Apr May · money in $88,000 May · kept $21,000 May Jun · money in $102,000 Jun · kept $31,000 Jun Jul · money in $96,000 Jul · kept $24,000 Jul Aug · money in $118,000 Aug · kept $38,000 Aug Sep · money in $109,000 Sep · kept $29,000 Sep Oct · money in $84,000 Oct · lost $6,000 Oct Nov · money in $92,000 Nov · kept $22,000 Nov Dec · money in $82,000 Dec · kept $27,000 Dec $38k -$6k
$1,056,000money in − $802,000what it cost = $254,000what you kept

Now look at October. That month lost $6,000 on a job where the decking came off rotten and nobody put the extra work on the bill. On this page you can see it. In a shoebox you find out in February.

Figures from the demo workspace, not a customer's books.

Every job, not just the good ones

Eight jobs. Two of them lost money.

Revenue, what it cost to do, the overheads it carried, and the margin left: one row per job, and the two that went backwards are in red where you can see them.

Profit and loss by project: revenue, collected, expenses, labour, overhead, total cost, profit and margin for eight jobs, two of them negative.Profit and loss by project: revenue, collected, expenses, labour, overhead, total cost, profit and margin for eight jobs, two of them negative.

A real screen from the demo workspace, not a mock-up of one.

What makes it true

Three things most job costing misses.

1

Overheads land on the job

Insurance, the yard, the trucks, the phones. Spread across the work, so a job that looked profitable at 20% can tell you it was not.

2

Change orders carry their own money

Raised against the job, approved by the customer, and on the invoice, not remembered differently by two people in a corridor.

3

Crew hours are a cost, not a timesheet

Hours land against the job at what they cost you, the day they are entered.

See it on your own jobs.

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