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Creative, media, recruitment and consulting agencies bill people and projects, not products. We track project profitability, pass-through costs and retainers so you know which clients are worth keeping.
Sounds familiar
“Scope creep eats the retainer every single month.”
Work-in-progress tracked against each retainer makes creep visible mid-month, while the conversation with the client is still easy.
“Media money passes through us and muddies everything.”
Pass-through stays out of your revenue line and your GST stays correct, so growth figures mean what they say.
“I cannot tell which client is worth keeping.”
Client-level margin after real costs, ranked monthly. Renewal season becomes arithmetic.
Agencies leak profit through scope creep and pass-through costs that never get recharged. We tag time-based revenue and third-party costs to clients and projects, so the monthly report shows each account with its true margin. Retainers get recognised over their period, and withholding tax on overseas freelancers is handled before it becomes a penalty.
Agencies sell time and ideas. The books should show exactly which clients pay fairly for them and which quietly do not.
Project margin visiblePass-through kept cleanWHT filed on time
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Yes. Revenue and direct costs are tagged by client and project so the report ranks accounts by real margin.
Over the service period rather than on invoice date, so months are comparable and renewals are priced on truth.
Certain payments to non-residents attract withholding tax. We identify which of yours do and file the S45 forms on time.
As recoverable disbursements rather than revenue and cost, unless your contracts make you principal. We check the terms and book it correctly for both margin and GST.
Fixed monthly, scoped to volume and reporting depth, agreed in advance.
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We will make the margin per account visible within a month.
Accounting, corporate secretarial, payroll and advisory for Singapore SMEs since 2012.
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