Job Costing
Revenue and cost tagged to the job rather than the item.
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Inventory kept inside the accounting file instead of a spreadsheet nobody has updated since spring.
Inventory is where small business books most often quietly stop being true. Product is bought, some is sold, some is damaged, some walks out, and the balance sheet keeps reporting a number that was accurate in March.
Because inventory sits on the balance sheet and cost of goods sold sits on the profit and loss, an inventory figure that has drifted makes both statements wrong at once. Margin looks better than it is, and the business looks like it holds assets it does not have.
Inventory sits on the balance sheet and cost of goods sits on the profit and loss. Drift makes both wrong at once.
A cycle matched to how fast stock moves and what it is worth, not an ideal nobody keeps.
A persistent gap is a finding about receiving, recording or shrinkage. It never gets forced to zero.
Retail and wholesale operations. Restaurants and food service, where food and beverage cost is the margin. Trades and manufacturers holding materials. Anyone whose customers buy a thing rather than an hour.
The tell that it is not being tracked properly is a gross margin that looks impressive and an owner who cannot explain why. Usually purchases are being expensed on the day they are bought, which makes a heavy buying month look like a bad month and a quiet buying month look like a great one.
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Real cost per item, entered once, so every sale recognises the right cost of goods.
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Product bought becomes an asset, not an immediate expense.
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Cost of goods sold moves when the product does, which is what makes margin real.
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A physical count against the file on the cycle your business can sustain, with the variance investigated and recorded.
Most of the inventory work we do around Humble and the Lake Houston area is for food service and small retail, where the count cycle has to fit around a business that cannot close for a day to do it. We set a cycle you will actually keep rather than an ideal one you will abandon in month two.
No. Count frequency should match how fast stock moves and what it is worth. High-value or fast-moving lines get counted more often, and slower lines less. A cycle you can keep beats a perfect one you cannot.
It rarely matches exactly, and small variance is normal. Persistent large variance is a finding, not a rounding problem, and it usually points at receiving, sales recording or shrinkage. We track it rather than force the number.
Yes, where the point of sale exports in a form the accounting file can take. We reconcile against the settlement record rather than trusting the summary.
If stock is a meaningful part of what you own or what you spend, yes. If you hold a few hundred dollars of supplies, it is not, and we will tell you so.
Revenue and cost tagged to the job rather than the item.
Job CostingWhere food and beverage cost is the whole margin conversation.
Restaurant & Food Service AccountingWhere inventory and margin show up as something you can act on.
Monthly Financial Reporting PackageA consultation with the owners, a straight read on what this would take, and a scope in writing before anything starts.
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