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Franchise Bookkeeping: Royalties, Compliance & Multi-Unit Accounting
Marcus owns four quick-service restaurant locations across suburban Chicago. Combined revenue last year: $2.8 million. His accountant — a generalist CPA who also handles two dental practices and a landscaping company — had been calculating royalties on net sales for three years. The franchise agreement…
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Franchise Royalty Accounting: Calculating and Recording Fees
A Subway franchisee in suburban Dallas discovered during a franchisor audit that she had been excluding DoorDash and Uber Eats revenue from her gross sales calculation for 18 months. Her reasoning made intuitive sense — the delivery platforms retained 25-30% of each order, so she…
Multi-Unit Franchise Financial Consolidation
When David opened his second Great Clips location, he added a Class in QuickBooks Online and figured he’d sort it out later. By the time he opened his fifth location — three in Illinois, two in Indiana — “later” had arrived in the form of…
Franchise Audit Preparation: What Franchisors Look For
The letter arrives on a Tuesday. Professional letterhead, certified mail. Your franchisor is exercising its contractual right to audit your financial records for the prior 24 months. You have 21 days to assemble three years of POS reports, bank statements, tax returns, vendor invoices, and…
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