- Trades and home services
- Heating and air, plumbing, electrical, lawn care. Price each kind of job, count the hours a tech can bill, and add the trucks, fuel and parts markup.
- Cleaning, salons and auto repair
- Crews, chairs or bays. See what each person costs with the payroll taxes in, and what each hour of work has to bring in.
- Shops
- Sales, what the goods cost you, staff and rent. See the margin you keep and the sales you need each month to break even.
- Offices and professional services
- Billable hours, rates, staff and overhead. See what an empty hour costs you.
- Any other business
- Start from a blank model and add your own lines. The same rules hold: every number shows its math, and a blank stays a dash.