Bookkeeping and financials for a painting company
Most painting companies know their revenue and guess at everything else. That is how a business runs a full crew all summer and finds nothing in the account in November. The number that matters in this trade is gross margin by job type, and it varies more than owners expect: exteriors often run 35% to 45%, interiors 40% to 50%, and cabinet refinishing frequently clears 55% because the material cost is low and the price anchors against replacement.
The mistake is treating all revenue as one bucket and checking the balance instead of the books. If you do not job-cost, you cannot tell that the commercial work you chase all year is carrying half the margin of the cabinet kitchens you take on reluctantly in January.
Two weeks gets your books current, your chart of accounts rebuilt around how a painting company actually spends, and one monthly statement you can read in five minutes and act on.