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Client case study · Construction & Development · After figures modelled

Landmarked Developments

Forensic Operations Audit · 18 Aug 2026 · NSW

A proven builder — 16 dwellings, eight developments, two and a half years — running $3.23M of revenue through one bank account, one spreadsheet system and one person. The work was never the problem. The measurement was. We found $3.23M in revenue converting to roughly $9,000 of surplus, and traced every dollar of the gap: a margin priced at 15–17% and delivered at 12–16%, 301 days of unrecovered programme overrun, $8,250 of completed variations never invoiced, and preconstruction given away free. Then we costed the fix.

Before — client's submitted data
35/100
High risk
Rolling 12-month revenue$3.23M
Net surplus~$9,000 (0.3%)
Cash runwayUnder 1 month
Owner's week60 hrs, 6 days
Team carrying every function1 employee
After — Modelled
82/100
Modelled
Construction revenue$5.0M · 3 projects
Net profit before tax (modelled)$500K+
Cash position6 months + facility
Owner's week30–35 hrs
Gross margin15%+ priced & protected
Modelled upside bridge — $9K to $500K+ (not an achieved result)
Margin gap closed$95,000 – 130,000
Preliminaries priced as a weekly rate$60,000 – 100,000
100% variation capture, signed before work$35,000 – 60,000
Paid preconstruction on every serious enquiry$30,000 – 50,000
Third concurrent project at full margin$120,000 – 180,000
Overhead recovery priced into every contract$25,000 – 40,000
Modelled annual uplift$365,000 – 560,000

Plus a development arm separated onto its own P&L, and a business that becomes saleable and bankable at an indicative enterprise value of $1.25M – $1.75M — where a one-person business is worth little beyond its work in hand.

Summary: Andrew from Landmarked Developments says Better Business Australia under-promised and over-delivered, saved him time and money, and made a world of difference.

Client video testimonial · Landmarked Developments

Before figures are drawn from the client's own submitted assessment of 18 August 2026. After figures are the modelled end state of a full restructure — 90-day blueprint executed plus twelve months of sustained execution — and are indicative estimates of opportunity, not a forecast, valuation or guarantee of outcome. They have not been verified against source records. Published with the client's written permission.

Client video testimonial

In their own words

Better Business Australia · Video testimonial

Summary: Jason, who owns an accounting firm in North Sydney, says he put his business through the audit, found it in depth, implemented around 70% of the suggestions with help from BBA's tech team, and calls it one of the best things he has done for his business and personal life. He mentions that he knows one of BBA's owners and has previously done consulting work for him.

Client video testimonial · Better Business Australia
Illustrative example — not a client

How an audit's findings are modelled

This is a made-up practice used to show how we model findings. It is not a testimonial, not a client and not a result. Every figure in it is modelled.

Illustrative example · Modelled figures · Accounting & Advisory

Example Practice A · an illustrative accounting firm

Illustrative example — not a real client · all figures modelled

An illustrative practice: well-run, well-liked — nine people, 620 clients, twenty-two years of goodwill — producing exactly what the sector average produces. $1.85M of fee revenue produces $259,000 because eighteen percent of recorded time is never billed, forty percent of the book is priced at yesterday's rates, and the highest-value work the firm does is given away inside compliance meetings. The practice is not underworked. It is underpriced and unmeasured.

Before — illustrative starting point
51/100
Sector average
Annual fee revenue$1.85M
Net profit$259,000 (14%)
Lockup · WIP + debtors78 days
Principal's week55 hrs
Revenue from compliance work84%
After — Modelled
88/100
Optimised
Fee revenue · same principal$2.9M
Net margin31%
Lockup · $365K cash released32 days
Principal's week — advisory only32 hrs
Revenue from advisory work42%
Modelled upside bridge — $259K to $900K+
Realisation lifted 82% → 94% across the existing book$165,000 – 222,000
Legacy fee reset across the 40% priced at yesterday's rates$110,000 – 148,000
Advisory productised — six priced offerings with templates$195,000 – 285,000
Fixed-fee scope control; out-of-scope work quoted first$45,000 – 64,000
Bottom-200 exit; capacity redeployed to advisory delivery$70,000 – 95,000
Modelled annual uplift$585,000 – 814,000

Plus ~$365,000 of working capital released as lockup falls from 78 to 32 days, a second signing reviewer appointed so the principal leaves the critical path, and two seniors placed on a documented equity pathway. At a sustained $900,000 EBIT the practice becomes saleable and bankable — indicatively 3.5–4.5× EBIT, or $3.1M – $4.0M, against roughly $1.6M for a compliance-weighted, principal-dependent practice of the same size.

Illustrative example prepared by Better Business Australia. The practice is fictional and is not a client. Figures are indicative estimates of opportunity under full implementation of the 90-day blueprint and twelve months of sustained execution; they are not a forecast, valuation or guarantee of outcome and have not been verified against source records. Structuring, licensing, taxation and valuation items require advice from appropriately qualified professionals.