#job-costing
Track costs per project or job for accurate profitability analysis
US tariffs added about $5 to every blank garment. Bill setup fees separately, amortize digitizing files across units, and reprice quotes from landed cost.
Customer deposits are liabilities, not revenue — book them right, charge mobilization honestly, and job-cost every build by code.
Bid drainage tile by the foot: 30-foot spacing doubles footage per acre versus 60-foot. Price the outlet separately, and use Section 179 on the plow.
Installs pay once; battery plans and service calls pay every year. Split install, recurring, and warranty-reserve lines or winter eats the margin.
A museum crate often costs more than the miles it travels — cost builds like manufacturing jobs and price transport per mile, or one subsidizes the other.
Price sign jobs per square foot, bill gold leaf and lift rental to the job, and keep cash reserves for weather days.
Reconcile plant tickets to tons weekly, load crew-day rates with burden and iron, and bank 8-12 weeks of overhead before winter shuts paving down.
Quote wallpaper per roll or square foot, cost prep separately, allow 10–25% pattern waste, and book deposits as unearned revenue — not income.
Prepaid irrigation plans are deferred revenue until each visit is done; expense tools under the $2,500 IRS safe harbor and depreciate the trencher.
Sand and gravel pits get 5% percentage depletion under IRS rules — compute cost and percentage methods yearly, claim the larger, and mind the 50%-of-income cap.
North Carolina requires a GC license once a project's final price, change orders included, hits $40,000 — cross it unlicensed and the contract is void.
Custom grain drying costs about 3.2 cents per point per bushel before margin — price from your fuel, shrink, and fixed cost, not the elevator's rate.
