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Month-end margin review ​

Cadence: Monthly · Who: Owners

Situation ​

End of the month. You want the P&L picture — revenue, cost, margin by project — before you close the books. This is the read that answers how did we actually do? without needing a bookkeeper or a spreadsheet marathon.

In the console ​

Open Money (/console/money) → the P&L tab. Revenue, cost, profit, margin and LER by month, chart above the table. The Segmentation tab breaks the same numbers down by customer or by discipline; Export pulls the rows to CSV. The Estimates tab compares budgeted hours against logged hours and can be grouped By project, By customer, or By discipline, with the same Active/All scope toggle as Segmentation — use this to answer "did we estimate the effort right, by client and by type of work?"

What you see ​

A per-project table:

| Project | Client | Type | Revenue | Cost | Margin | Margin % |

Plus rollups:

  • By project type — retainer, T&M, fixed price, agile, pro bono, internal
  • By client — total revenue, total cost, total margin per client
  • Totals — the line you'll carry into your management accounts

And alerts:

  • Projects with unusual variance vs. the previous month called out
  • Projects that moved from on-track to over-budget in the month
  • Vendor liabilities that closed in the month, with their effect on margin

Cost respects the P&L rule: where a vendor liability exists, the agreed amount is used; otherwise hours × the rate effective on each time entry's date.

Who can run it ​

Owners only. Contains dollar amounts not visible to other roles.