Notes from the workshop
Costing, stock and the craft of running a batch business.
Practical write-ups on pricing your work, keeping count, and the admin that comes with growing a small-batch line.
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- CostingYour accountant wants a number you can defendAt tax time, your accountant needs cost of goods sold and closing inventory. If those numbers come from a reconstruction exercise, they cost you twice: once in accounting fees, and again in the margin they misstate.
- ProductionTrack the batch, not the averageAverages hide the batches that went wrong. When every run tracks the lots it consumed, the cost it carried, and the hours it took, you stop guessing and start pricing from evidence.
- StockWhat your shelves actually holdMost makers start with a spreadsheet that tracks materials. Then one season it stops matching what is on the shelf, and reorder day becomes a guessing game.
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