Builders margin and cash flow blog

Plain-English guides for small builders, with sources. Each one ends with a way to check your own numbers.

• How much profit should a builder make in Australia?

  Margin versus markup, what official data says, and how to check a job against the margin you quoted.

• Construction cash flow forecast: why builders go broke

  Why a profitable fixed-price job can still run out of cash between stages, and what a 13-week forecast shows.

• How to price a variation before you say yes

  Cost, margin, GST and written approval, in the order you need them.

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