Fractional leadership Handyman Services Metro Detroit
Your monthly reports show up so late they describe a month you can no longer change.
A fractional controller for handyman services who closes the books on time every month and delivers reports you can trust and act on.
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Renaissance Center, Detroit
Metro Detroit
It is the middle of the month in Metro Detroit and you are still waiting on last month's numbers. When they arrive, revenue looks fine but the margin looks odd, and nobody can tell you if it is real or just a bill posted in the wrong place.
A fractional controller takes ownership of the close. They set a checklist and a deadline, reconcile every account, match revenue to the jobs it came from and review the bookkeeper's work before a report ever reaches you.
Reports land early in the month, and they are right. You can trust the margin, catch a problem while it is still small, and hand your CPA a clean year instead of a box of questions.
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19%
Days a month over about 21 working days. A fractional fee is quoted on that share of the work, not a full salary.
Fix this in Metro DetroitWe look at your chart of accounts, past closes and open reconciliations to see what needs fixing.
We catch up reconciliations and correct the errors that throw off your reports.
We write a close checklist with deadlines and assign each task to your bookkeeper or our team.
You get a reviewed report package on a fixed date, with a short call to walk through it.
What we report every month: Close completed by the target date, Accounts reconciled and open items, Adjustments made after the close, and Gross margin and net profit trends.
A controller owns the accuracy of your books. They run the month-end close, reconcile accounts, review the bookkeeper's work and produce the reports. A fractional controller does that part time, which suits businesses that need the rigor but not a full-time role.
The bookkeeper enters and categorizes the daily transactions. The controller checks it all, closes the month and makes sure the statements are correct. The CFO reads those statements and plans what comes next. If your reports are late or unreliable, a controller is usually the missing piece.
Every bank, card and loan account is reconciled to the statement. Revenue is matched to the jobs that earned it, bills are booked in the month they belong to and payroll is split the right way. Then someone other than the person who entered it reviews the whole thing before it goes to you.
The main drivers are transaction volume, the number of bank accounts and entities, whether you need accrual or job-level reporting and how far behind the books are. Catch-up work is usually a separate project before the monthly fee starts. Both are fixed prices, and you see them before anything begins.
Cash-basis books show money when it moves, which can make a slow month look great and a busy month look like a loss. Accrual reporting puts income and costs in the month the work happened, so your margins reflect reality. For any business with deposits, receivables or seasonal swings, it is the difference between guessing and knowing.
Affordable and good at data entry, but often nobody checks the work or owns the close.
Strong control in-house, but more hours and salary than most owner-run businesses can keep busy.
A fractional controller who owns the close, reviews your bookkeeper and delivers a reviewed package on the same date every month.
Who you are dealing with
Before Rebuild Detroit, Tevin Jackson helped scale more than 100 home service brands with marketing, sales and operations. Business Services is that playbook, run for Metro Detroit handyman services with the local numbers on this page, by the team behind the Rebuild Detroit directory.
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