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Project margin is a mystery
Time tracking lives in one tool, costs in another — never the two shall meet.
For Agencies
Project profitability at a glance
Tag time, retainers and expenses to projects — AccBooks shows you which engagements actually make money.
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Dashboard
Demo Limited ▾
Total Income
£152,430
↑ 12.5% vs last year
Total Expenses
£98,245
↑ 4.3% vs last year
Net Profit
£54,185
↑ 26.8% vs last year
VAT Due
£8,320
Due in 19 days
Profit & Loss (This Year)
Account Health
92%
Looks great!
The problem
Sound familiar?
Top-line growth means nothing if margin is hiding.
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Retainers and milestones tangled
Invoicing, deferred revenue and WIP get out of sync each quarter.
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Pass-through costs lose money
Out-of-pocket expenses don't make it onto the client invoice.
Why AccBooks
What you get
Project-aware accounting, without project-aware spreadsheets.
✓
Project P&L
See revenue, time cost and pass-through expenses for every engagement, live.
✓
Retainer and milestone billing
Recurring invoices, milestone triggers and deferred revenue handled cleanly.
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Time and expense capture
Connect Harvest, Toggl and Xero — or capture expenses in our mobile app.
How it works
Up and running in three steps
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Set up your project codes
Import from your PM tool or create them inside AccBooks.
- 2
Tag costs and time
Auto-tag rules push receipts and timesheets to the right project.
- 3
Open the project P&L
Make pricing decisions with real margins, not gut feeling.
Customer story
“We discovered a quarter of our retainers were unprofitable. We renegotiated within a month — payback paid for AccBooks ten times over.”
— Tom Walsh, MD, Northpoint Studio
+18%
agency-wide margin
Stop guessing which projects pay
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