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Four practice types. Four different financial models.
Membership plans, pharmacy inventory, optical dispensaries, and credentialing lag each need handling a standard chart of accounts does not provide. Each one changes what the statements have to show.
Dental practice accounting
It should cover its own cost and contribute. Most dental books bury hygienist wages in general payroll and hygiene production in total production, so nobody can tell…
OptometryOptometry practice accounting
An optical dispensary runs at retail margin. An exam lane runs at clinical margin. Blend them into one revenue line and you can’t see which half is carrying the o…
VeterinaryVeterinary practice accounting
Services and retail, running side by side. Pharmacy, food, and product carry real inventory and real margin, and most veterinary books blend them into a single revenue line that hides which …
Mental HealthMental health practice accounting
A therapy or psychiatry practice is a labor business with a payer lag. Credentialing delays, session-based revenue, and clinician utilization decide the m…
Every one of them collects before it delivers.
Dental membership plans, veterinary wellness plans, optometry annual supply orders, mental health program enrollment. Different names, same accounting problem: money arrives before the work does. Booked as income on receipt, it overstates profit in strong sales months and understates it in delivery months, and the owner never sees a real trend line.
It is the most common structural error across all four verticals. It's also why a practice can have a great year on paper and a bank balance that doesn't agree.
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