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Most often it is making site-level results readable: a site tag on every transaction, a written rule for shared cost, and contribution reported before central cost rather than after.

After that it is comparing locations on common terms — per employee, per square foot, per labor hour — because raw totals mostly measure size.

Because it behaves like any average. It sits above the weaker location and below the stronger one, so it describes a site that does not exist anywhere in the business.

Decisions about investment, cutting and management performance all get made at site level, which means they need a site-level number to be made from.

By whatever actually drives it. Administration often follows headcount, insurance may follow floor area or asset value, central delivery usually follows transaction volume.

The choice matters less than the discipline: pick the driver deliberately, record why, and keep it stable, because a rule that changes between periods invents trends.

No, and allocating everything is the most common mistake we see. If a cost would not disappear when a site closed, charging it to that site makes the site look worse than closing it would make the business.

Reporting site contribution first and showing unallocated central cost as its own line keeps both questions answerable at once.

Often not. Compared per employee, per square foot or per labor hour, the location with less revenue is frequently the stronger operation.

That is the comparison a consolidated report can never produce, and it is where most of the surprise in this work turns up.

With arithmetic rather than instinct. The model has to include the cost that would remain after closure, the revenue that would not transfer, and the capacity the surviving site would need to absorb.

It is a half-day of work and it has changed enough minds to be worth doing before the decision rather than after it.

Scope decides it, which is why the records are examined before any figure is named and why that examination is free. Site tagging and an allocation rule is small and fixed-price.

In every case the deliverable and the price are agreed in writing before any building begins.

The work is delivered remotely by design rather than by limitation. Going through a management pack together on a shared screen is identical at any distance.

It also means a question needed before a Friday meeting gets looked at on Tuesday, and no part of the invoice is travel.

Usually. The workbook gets read back to first principles, the allocation logic reconstructed, and each fragile part repaired or replaced depending on what is honestly warranted.

What the work needs is time with whoever uses the reporting now, because the conventions they apply matter as much as the file.

Site tagging with a documented allocation rule is often a few days. Adding contribution reporting, comparison ratios and scheduled consolidation usually runs one to two weeks.

Whatever the size, that estimate is committed in writing before building starts rather than emerging as the work proceeds.

The workbooks, any macro source code, a written statement of the allocation rule and why that driver was chosen, and training for whoever will maintain it.

Nothing is locked to us and no subscription is needed to keep it running. Support afterward is available and entirely optional.

No. They describe where most of the work has come from rather than what is accepted, and what decides scope is the nature of the problem rather than the sector.

Site profitability, department reporting, product margin and program cost are considerably more alike underneath than they look from outside.