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Everything we have written about margin and profitability, newest first.
Use a final-account margin waterfall to move from tender margin to final realised margin after every variation cost and change in revenue.
Status meetings track progress. Margin reviews track money. Five numbers per live project, a threshold against each, and a named owner before anyone leaves.
The single-project sum takes a minute. The version that matters is the roll-up, where a handful of underwater jobs hide inside a perfectly healthy blended number.
The biggest invoice of your year is rarely your best project. Here is how to adapt client profitability analysis to a licence-heavy IT services cost base.
A fixed-price job goes wrong in week three, not at the final account. These are the leading indicators that show it, and the weekly checks that surface them.
Learn how top creative agencies structure their projects for maximum profitability without sacrificing quality. We break down margin targets, scoping strategies, and the metrics that actually matter.