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Four ways to find out which jobs make you money.

Three of them are things you already have. A spreadsheet is free and correct if you know the method and can spare the hours; your accountant knows your tax position better than we ever will; your job software already knows what every job invoiced. What none of the three does by default is cost an hour of your capacity properly and hold each job type against it. That is the whole of what we sell.

What each one actually answers

	Spreadsheet	Accountant	Job software	Profit Report
Cost	Free, plus your hours	Usually in your fee, or hourly	Included in your licence	£400
Revenue by job type	Yes, if you build it	Not usually reported	Yes — this is its strength	Yes
Hours by job type	Only if you log them	No	Yes, where techs clock jobs	Yes, where your records carry them
True cost of an hour	Yes, if you know the method	Can be derived on request	Rarely — labour is a rate, not a loaded cost	Yes, built and shown
Profit per job type	Yes, with care	At company level, not job level	Gross margin at best	Yes
Every figure traced to a source	You are the source	Yes, to the ledger	No	Yes, marked per figure
A price to charge	You decide	Outside the engagement	No	Yes, per job type
Kept current	As often as you update it	Annually	Continuously	A snapshot of one year
Regulated advice	No	Yes, for tax and accounts	No	No
Turnaround	An evening to a fortnight	Weeks, in their cycle	Instant	5 working days

“Job software” means the field service tools most firms already run — scheduling, dispatch and invoicing in one. Capabilities vary; check yours before taking this row as read. No competitor is named on this page and none is characterised beyond what its own documentation describes.

Who each one is right for

A spreadsheetYou have an evening or three, you are comfortable with the method, and your job records are already reasonably clean. Free is a real advantage and you should take it.

Your accountantThe question is about tax, structure, or whether the company made money overall. Also: anything that has to be relied on by a lender or filed anywhere.

Your job softwareYou want revenue and job counts by type, this month, now — or you have already configured a genuine loaded cost per billable hour in it.

The Profit ReportYou have three or more field staff, a year of records, your own prices to set, and you would rather buy the fortnight back than spend it.

If you want to do it yourself, the method is published in full on the floor rate page — every step, with a worked example. It is the same arithmetic we run. We would rather you did it than didn't.

If the fourth option is the one that fits.

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