Sitting

Small-shop ledger review

The ledger review is for a family shop whose takings, stock, and household cash still pass through the same hands. It is not a full money map. It is a close reading of the day-book and the costs that sit on top of it.

A fabric shop counter at dusk with folded textiles, a closed blank book, and a copper bead tray.
Fee
9,500 THB. Fixed fee for one shop and one month of the day-book.
Time
About three weeks
Form
Two sittings, usually after the shop has closed
Where
First sitting at the shop if it is inside the visit districts, otherwise at the Min Buri office. The second sitting is at the office so the sheet can be drawn on the large table.

Who it is for

Owners of stalls and small shopfronts in eastern Bangkok who still write a day-book, or who can reconstruct one week from the till and the supplier slips.

What you leave with

A sheet that places a month of takings next to rent, wages, stock, and the amount that actually reaches the household.

Included

  • A closing-time sitting of about two hours with the day-book, supplier slips, and rent receipt.
  • A drawing of one recent month, with weekdays kept separate.
  • A second sitting to read which costs belong to the shop and which belong to the house.
  • A short written note of what you decide to change in the next month.

Outside this engagement

  • Bookkeeping for the whole year.
  • VAT returns, payroll filings, or staff contracts.
  • A household money map, unless booked as its own engagement.

Who leads it

Arthit Wongchai leads the review. He kept the day-book for a fabric stall in Min Buri before joining the practice in 2021.

How the time is spent

At the counter

We look at how the day is written down: cash in the morning, transfers, supplier payments, and what is taken home at night.

On the sheet

One month is drawn so a thin Tuesday is not averaged away by a busy weekend.

What to prepare

  • The day-book, or the till notes, for one recent month.
  • Rent and any market fee.
  • Supplier slips for the same month.
  • A note of who in the family is paid from the shop.

Constraints

  • One shop. A second branch is a separate review.
  • If the day-book skips whole weeks, we reconstruct only the weeks you can evidence.

Ask for a ledger review and say what the shop sells and when it closes.