How do you find out what your business is actually doing?

The Audit: How to Find Out What Your Business Is Actually Doing

Written by JD Davenport, who still sells for a living.

Your books are right and your jobs are lying to you.

Your bank balance is right. Your profit and loss is right. Then you open one job and you cannot say within a thousand dollars what it made. That is the normal condition of a business that sells jobs, and it is not a bookkeeping failure.

A job's cost is not a number you hold. It is a number you assemble, weeks after the work is over, out of documents that arrive from other people on other people's clocks. Five things stack up. Cost lands late. Cost lands in the wrong column. Cost lands on the wrong job. The credit never lands at all. And the rate was never written down.

This is the method for finding out which work was actually worth doing. Twelve rules of evidence. How to reconcile a year of payments in a single day. How to audit labor, material, a single job, somebody's pay, your territory, your lead sources, and the instrument you are holding while you measure. And one chapter on every time the method produced a confident wrong answer, what caused each one, and what rule came out of it.

Length	26 chapters, about 66,000 words
Format	PDF and EPUB, both in one download
For	Anyone running a business that sells jobs
Already have it?	This is file 11 in The Job Cost Standard and it is in The Complete Standard. The same file, not a cut-down version. If you own either one, do not buy it here.

Before you buy. This book is also file 11 inside The Job Cost Standard and inside The Complete Standard. It is the same file in all three places. If you already own either of those, you own this and should not pay for it twice.

Want it in print? The Audit is on Amazon in paperback and hardcover, and on Kindle: The Audit on Amazon. The PDF and EPUB above are sold here only.

Written by JD Davenport, out of work he was doing at the time. The other book is The Field Guide, or take both for $29.