Six-month jobs, and a P&L that only tells the truth once a year.
The jobs are long, the money arrives ahead of the work, the scope changes twice, and a third of your revenue is subs you do not control.
Where remodeler margin goes missing.
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Deposits make bad months look good
You collect in January and buy cabinets in April. January shows a fat profit, April shows a loss, and neither month happened.
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Change orders nobody billed
The homeowner asks for better tile in week three. The crew installs it. Nobody writes it up. It lands as cost with no revenue against it.
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Allowances that ran over
The client picks fixtures at twice the lighting allowance. Untracked, the overage reads as a cost overrun instead of a billable.
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Jobs that straddle December
A kitchen running October to February sits in two tax years. Without a WIP schedule you pay tax early or understate income.
What you can see once the cost is coded right.
Margin on demo, framing, mechanical, and finish separately. Most remodelers earn it on the box and lose it on finish.
Customer money sits as a liability. Revenue recognizes as the job earns it, and year end lands in the right year.
Priced, logged, and reconciled at close, so the unbilled ones surface while you can still bill them.
See what it would cost you.
Thirty minutes, a real price in writing, an honest answer on fit. Or send last year's return and I will review it free.