Bookkeeping and financials for a window repair company
Most glass shop owners know their revenue and their glass bill and nothing in between. Deposits on custom orders sit uncategorized, the board-up fee credited against a replacement gets counted twice or not at all, and "did storefront work make money last quarter" has no answer. Marketing decisions get made on feel because the books cannot say what a job type is worth.
Monthly books for a glass shop mean revenue by job type, cost of glass and hardware against each, labor by technician, deposits tracked as liabilities until the install, and ad spend as its own line so cost per booked job can be compared to margin. After two weeks the last three months are categorized that way and you have a one-page summary that says which job types carry the shop. That number decides where the ad budget goes.