The Demand #
Before your next budget review, pull your original capital and construction estimate and your most recent contractor bids side by side. Calculate the gap in real dollars and as a percentage. If it is greater than ten percent, decide now — before you sign anything else — whether the sales-to-investment math still works at the new number. Bring your CPA and attorney into that conversation this week if they are not already in it.
The Work #
Original capital and construction budget estimate:
Most recent actual contractor bids or updated figure:
The gap, in dollars and percentage:
Your conservative first-year sales projection:
Does that projection equal or exceed your total capital investment — yes or no:
If no — are you overcapitalizing the project or is this the wrong site, your honest read:
Have your CPA and attorney been active since month eleven, or are they being brought in now that things are complicated:
The one number in this budget you are currently working backwards from instead of building honestly toward:
The decision you will make this week while you still have options, before the construction contract is signed:
