CFOS-07MONTHLY CADENCE
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STEP 07 OF 08 · CHAPTER 7

Monthly cadence

Weekly bookkeeping, cost to complete, and one CEO report, on the same days every month.

SYSTEM POSITION

Where this step sits

DEPENDS ON
CFOS-03Overhead calculationCFOS-04Estimating systemCFOS-05Software and bookkeeping alignmentCFOS-06Project management
FEEDS
CFOS-08Standards and accountability
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The rules and targets underneath it

CFOS-07
$650,000 in the bank
The working capital rule behind the cash target, scaled to every revenue band.
PROOF

Contractors where this step did the work

SWPPP AND EROSION CONTROL
$24,000 of net profit became $1,105,000
An erosion control contractor was running seven figures of revenue and keeping almost none of it, because no site had a number of its own.
CIVIL
A maxed $348,000 line of credit, paid off in 60 days
A civil contractor was carrying a maxed line of credit and 30% overhead, and couldn't point at where either came from.
CIVIL
Two maxed credit lines and an SBA loan, cleared in 90 days
A turnkey civil contractor grew from $500,000 to $5M in two years and financed every month of it, until the house was collateral.
TENANT IMPROVEMENT GENERAL CONTRACTOR
6.7% to 11.2% net profit in 120 days
A tenant improvement GC was using each new job to finish the last one, and could see two weeks ahead at best.
CIVIL
Four merchant cash advances gone, gross profit 5% to 33%
A civil subcontractor did everything right to grow and nearly finished the business doing it.
MASONRY
Jobs 80% spent at 60% complete, now bidding at 10% net
A masonry contractor was making money on block and giving it back on brick, and the blended report couldn't show him which.
ELECTRICAL
$365,000 of receivables recovered, all debt cleared in 120 days
A commercial electrical subcontractor had a collections problem long enough that it turned into a debt problem.
MARINE
$2.3M to $5.5M in business value on identical revenue
A marine general contractor wanted to sell, and found out what a buyer pays for is provable profit, which he couldn't prove.
MARINE
$2.6M paid out in profit sharing, bank never below $1.2M
A marine general contractor at eight figures had no job costing, no WIP reporting and no project-level visibility at all.
ELECTRICAL ยท IN PROGRESS
33 points of overhead found in the first 30 days
An electrical service contractor had been running on fear since a partner situation pulled six figures out of the company.
FIBER
The months stopped being random once the books were right
A fiber splicing subcontractor had skilled crews and carrier clients, and a bank account with no discernible pattern.
LANDSCAPING
Breakeven to $12,000 a month in cash, in 75 days
A father and son operation was losing its entire margin to a dozen small leaks, none of which looked big enough to chase.
QUESTIONS

What owners ask

What is the monthly cadence step?

Weekly bookkeeping, cost to complete, and one CEO report, on the same days every month. It's step 07 of 8 in CONTROL, drawn from chapter 7.

Does the order make a difference?

Yes. This step depends on overhead calculation and estimating system and software and bookkeeping alignment and project management, so installing it first produces numbers nobody trusts.

What does it change downstream?

It feeds standards and accountability. A change here moves every one of those.

What breaks if I skip step 07?

1 later step reads from it: 08, standards and accountability. Skip it and that runs on numbers that were never established, so the output looks finished and isn't.

Where does step 07 sit in the sequence?

Position 7 of 8 once the dependencies are resolved. It waits on 03 and 04 and 05 and 06. 1 step waits on it. Most owners install all 8 inside 60 days.

AUTHOR
Josh Luebker
JOSH LUEBKER
MASTER ELECTRICIAN · 150+ PROJECTS · $2.1B+ MANAGED

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