Bookkeeping and financials for a locksmith business
Most locksmiths know their bank balance and nothing else. They do not know the margin on an automotive key after the blank and the programming subscription, whether the commercial account that pays net 45 is worth the hassle, or what a lockout actually costs to deliver after fuel and the hour. Marketing decisions get made on feel, and feel says lockouts are the business when the books often say commercial and rekeys are.
Monthly bookkeeping for a locksmith is a clean profit and loss with revenue split by job type (lockout, rekey, commercial, automotive, safes), cost of goods for hardware and blanks, vehicle and fuel, software subscriptions, and marketing broken out by channel. The mistake is doing it once a year for the tax return and never seeing the pattern in between.
At two weeks, working means last month closed, transactions categorized, and a one-page P&L that says what each job type earned and what each marketing channel cost per job.