Bookkeeping and financials for a air duct cleaning company
Most duct cleaning owners know their revenue and guess at everything else. The guess is wrong in the same direction every time: fuel, consumables and the second tech's hours get underestimated, and the real margin on a $395 job is thinner than it feels. Without clean books, a price increase is a gamble and an ad budget is a hope.
Monthly bookkeeping for a service company: income and expenses categorized, jobs matched to invoices and deposits, truck and equipment costs tracked, and a one-page statement showing revenue, cost per job, margin by service line and cash. It also feeds the marketing: cost per booked job only means something next to the margin on that job.
After two weeks, working means the last three months are reconciled, the categories fit this trade, and you have the first statement with margin by service.