Accordia sample-book reveal - a 28% margin that was really a 10% floor once the untagged costs were counted
One piece of work on the sample book
Delfield & Cole, a customer you have quoted before $45,000 invoiced
The whole book, not just this one
About $90,000 of vendor cost is sitting outside the jobs it belongs to, and it does not land evenly. Most jobs barely move. A few move sharply, like this one.
Three bills from Ravello Supply, a vendor you buy from all the time, landed in QuickBooks with nothing on them tying them to this work, so they never reached its number. Its bills keep landing that way.
- $3,412.80
- $2,905.44
- $1,781.76
$8,100 of this work's cost, sitting outside its number
The real figure sits between that floor and the 28% QuickBooks showed. Bid-safe means you work from the floor, and Accordia shows the range instead of handing you a single number it made up.
Names shown are illustrative. The figures are from the sample book. For how we validated the detector's mechanics against 3.7 million real AP records, see How we validated the detector.
The next one like it, you would price off 28%. The work returned closer to 10%. That is the number that quietly went stale, the one you are about to bid from.
Call it a job, a project, a repair, a matter. The word changes with the trade. What happens to the number does not.
We connected a sample QuickBooks book so you can look before you wire up yours.