Bookkeeping and financials for a home inspection business
Inspection is a high margin, low overhead business that hides its problems well. Revenue is lumpy, driven by a housing market you do not control, and a strong spring covers a lot of sloppiness that only surfaces in November.
The numbers we set up for an inspection firm start with revenue split between base inspections and ancillaries, because the attach rate is the difference between a $450 job and a $700 job and most owners have never measured it. Mileage tracked properly, since a rural territory can eat a fifth of the fee. Fixed costs listed plainly: errors and omissions insurance, report software, scheduling software, association dues, continuing education, tools. And marketing spend broken out by channel so you can hold it against booked jobs instead of guessing.
Then the number that actually runs the business: revenue per inspection day, not per inspection. Two jobs in a day with an hour of drive between them is a different business than one job with ninety minutes each way.
Two weeks in you get a clean prior month, categorized, with attach rate and cost per booked inspection on the front page.