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The Good Heating Co

Where we are, three months in
Total turnover
Gross profit to date
Gross profit target
Operating profit to date
The verdict

The year has opened quietly. April and May are never the months that carry us, and this spring was light on the installations that lift them, so turnover is running at £13,526 a month against a target of £17,000 to £20,750. That gap is the year in a nutshell.

The encouragement sits underneath the headline. Margins are strong at around 32%, the cost base is in good order, and we are busier than a year ago rather than quieter, with 180 jobs completed across April and May against 158 last year, just on smaller work while the installs are quiet. The task for the year is simple to describe even if it takes some doing. Push volume through the autumn and winter when the heavier work lands, and protect the margin while chasing it, because giving margin away to win work simply raises the bar again.

Monthly gross profit against target View reports →
Gross profit this year £4,820 target £4,500 break-even
Monthly turnover  ·  context
Last year This year
This year so far
The bar for the year
If gross margin holds at 32%
the current run rate, strong but unlikely to last
If gross margin slips to 26.25%
last year’s level, the prudent assumption

Both sit well above the £13,526 a month we are running now, and that is why volume and margin have to move together. Win the extra work by discounting and we simply shift from the lower target to the higher one. We need more work, at the margin we already make.

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Financial forecasting

Forecasts

Forward looking cash flow and profit and loss forecasts for The Good Heating Co, on the April to March financial year.

Forecasts in preparation

A full year forecast for The Good Heating Co is being built on the April to March financial year, carrying the two months of actuals through the heating season against the £17,000 to £20,750 monthly target. It will appear here once the workbook is ready.

Coming soon
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