Garage Finance & Accounting
Money matters for garage owners: pricing services, accounting, VAT and KRA compliance, and understanding your real profitability.
The Garage Owner's Guide to Cashflow: Why Profitable Workshops Still Run Out of Money
A garage can be profitable on paper and broke at the bank: receivables discipline, supplier credit, float management, seasonal dips, and the weekly cashflow habits that keep a workshop liquid.
How to Manage M-Pesa Payments in Your Garage (Without Losing Track of a Shilling)
M-Pesa runs Kenyan garage payments, and unmanaged it runs them into confusion: till setup, matching payments to invoices, daily reconciliation, float vs bank, and the controls that stop leakage.
How to Price Garage Services in Kenya: Labour Rates, Parts Margin, and Quoting with Confidence
A practical guide to pricing garage services in Kenya: setting an hourly labour rate from your real costs, marking up parts fairly, quoting jobs consistently, and raising prices without losing customers.
Garage Accounting in Kenya: VAT, eTIMS, and Staying KRA-Compliant
What garage owners in Kenya need to know about accounting and tax: the records to keep, VAT registration and returns, eTIMS electronic invoicing, withholding tax, and how to stay KRA-ready without month-end panic.