Time and project structure
Test late or incomplete time, weak project coding, and whether managers can reconcile expected, recorded, submitted, approved, and corrected hours.
Free consulting project audit
Find the project profit leaks your month-end reports reveal too late.
The Consulting Project Profit Leak Audit exposes twelve time, rate, utilization, scope, fee-burn, and reconciliation problems that can quietly erode delivery margin while an engagement still appears healthy.
- 13-page PDF
- 12 concrete leak tests
- Printable scorecard
- Immediate protected download
What the audit uncovers
Look behind a healthy-looking project margin.
Each test connects a warning signal to the way margin can disappear, the operating control to install, and the evidence a manager should expect to retrieve.
Rates, costs, and commercial models
Separate bill rate, loaded labor cost, realized rate, direct delivery cost, fixed-fee burn, and retainer overservicing instead of blending them into one margin claim.
Scope and delivery decisions
Find budget reviews that happen too late, unpriced scope expansion, unowned internal work, and write-downs that never improve the next estimate.
Delivery-to-accounting reconciliation
Check whether timesheets, project budgets, billing treatment, and QuickBooks or another financial system connect through documented mappings and period tie-outs.
Use it in one working session
Score the risk, choose the first controls, and change the weekly review.
Run the audit against one active project using evidence from one cut-off date. The result is an operating priority list, not a vague maturity score.
01 - SelectChoose one financially meaningful project.
Use a fixed-fee, retainer, or hourly engagement whose margin or realization is uncertain.
02 - ScoreTest twelve leaks against current evidence.
Score each as controlled, inconsistent, or unmanaged instead of relying on intention.
03 - DecideName the first three actions.
Prioritize the gaps closest to active revenue, client commitments, and delivery capacity.
04 - RepeatInstall a 25-minute weekly review.
Track the owner, due date, and evidence that will close each project risk.
The score does not estimate dollars lost or declare a project profitable. It identifies gaps that prevent the firm from seeing, explaining, or controlling project economics early enough.
Before you download
Know what the audit does - and what it does not prove.
What is included in the PDF?
The 13-page audit includes twelve profit-leak tests, a 0-24 scoring method, interpretation bands, a 25-minute weekly project-review agenda, a 30-day control plan, and a printable one-page scorecard.
Does the score prove how much profit we lost?
No. The score identifies visibility and control gaps that deserve investigation. It is not an accounting calculation, company valuation, audit opinion, or substitute for project-specific financial analysis.
Which project should we audit first?
Choose a financially meaningful active engagement: a fixed-fee project nearing its hour budget, a retainer with heavy demand, or an hourly project whose realized rate or delivery cost is unclear.
Will requesting the audit add me to marketing emails?
Only if you select the separate marketing-consent checkbox. The PDF is available immediately without opting into promotional email.
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