Landscaping Business monthly financial report
A landscaping report should compare each month to the same month last year. April against March tells you nothing in a seasonal business.
The six numbers for a landscaping business
| Number | How to work it out | What it warns you about |
|---|---|---|
| Maintenance revenue, share of total | Maintenance billing ÷ revenue | The part of revenue that repeats |
| Days to collect | What clients owe ÷ monthly revenue × 30 | Commercial accounts slowing down |
| Labor, share of revenue | Crew wages ÷ revenue | Crews idle or jobs underpriced |
| Materials, share of revenue | Plants, stone, mulch ÷ revenue | Install bids missing material price rises |
| Truck and equipment payments, share | Those payments ÷ revenue | Fixed load you carry through winter |
| Signed install backlog | Signed work not yet done | Next season's revenue already won |
Use these six in place of the general ones on the template's Report tab.
What to watch in a landscaping business
- Cash on hand going into November
- Commercial accounts past 60 days
- Install deposits collected against the work still to do
Not sure how much cash you should hold? Use the landscaping business cash calculator.
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