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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.

Example phrasings

  • "month-end report"
  • "margin review for this month"
  • "how did we do"

What VERA returns

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.

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