can someone help me on how to do a financial forecast for a commercial cleaning service

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I think the main difficulty is how do you charge for your Cleaning services.

1.  Do you charge per square meter.
2.  Do you charge per number of people utilised to clean.
3.  Do you factor in the equipment, cleaning material etc used.
4.  What about the distance which your employess are transported to the site.
5.  Remember to consider the time of operation. Cleaning is mostly preferred after normal hours.

Let me know.

Aubrey
leseding@mail.com
South Africa