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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.
Related plays
- Retainer burn check — the weekly signal that feeds this monthly read
- Client summary for a review meeting — the client-facing version