Technical CFO for the Shed Industry
Which number don't you trust?
Every order goes around your business. The ad brings the customer in, sales writes the order, the shop builds it, the hauler sets it, finance collects, the office closes it out, and the money comes back around as next month's ads. Somewhere on that loop a number stopped telling the truth.
Pick the stop where you think it went wrong.
- 01 Marketing Which ad brought in your last five sales? the lead handoff
- 02 Sales Is next month's sales number a guess? the promise
- 03 Production When the shop says two weeks, is it? the delivery date
- 04 Logistics What did that service call really cost? the invoice
- 05 Finance How much of the bank balance is spoken for? the owner's desk
- 06 Administration Which orders are sitting on someone's desk?
Everybody's telling the truth
Marketing says leads are up. Sales says they're closing. The shop says the jobs are killing them. Finance says the month was flat.
Every one of them can be right, and the month still comes out flat. The problems in a shed business hide in the handoffs between departments, where nobody owns the number.
Rather have someone check it for you?
Numbers You Can Trust. Two weeks, $3,500 flat. You send read-only logins to the systems you already run. I pull the numbers out, talk with whoever is closest to them, and check them against your books. Then you get the build order: what to fix first, in what order, and who does it. If by the end of the first week I can't get to the data I need, I'll tell you then and refund the fee.
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