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Environmental Pools is a second-generation family business founded in 1988 by Andrew Everleigh, Sr. Environmental Pools ranks nationally amongst the top 50 pool builders in the country and has received numerous awards over the years including Boston Magazine Best of Boston Home, and Pool & Spa News (PSN) Top 50 Builders. Now led by Owner & CEO Andy Everleigh, Jr., Environmental Pools continues to advance their 30+ year tradition of excellence and integrity in the pool industry.
The business really took off during the pandemic. While the business was growing, they were challenged with two years of backlog, inaccurate inventory tracking and job costing, project management issues and more. Andy was very ambitious with plans for his family’s business, but wasn’t entirely sure how to manage their finances during this period of unprecedented growth. Andy decided it was time to hire a strategic CFO but needed a second opinion. Knowing KLR provides outsourced accounting services, Andy’s accountant made the introduction and KLR Outsourcing Director, Jon Hughes dove into the task at hand.
KLR Outsourcing helped Andy realize he didn’t need a full-time CFO, avoiding the associated cost. Before partnering with KLR, Environmental Pools only understood profitability at year-end through their tax accountant.
“As we’ve grown over the last 10 years, we’ve had to readjust our processes. We needed better insight into project costing, which was tough with our existing platforms,” says Andy.
KLR took the time to understand the business, clarified long-term goals, improved cost tracking, and built a financial forecast.
They implemented action-based initiatives that led to opening a new building, tripling the service practice, boosting profitability, and increasing business value.
“Not having a clear picture of our job profitability and project costs was really holding us back from growing,” Andy adds.
"KLR was able to implement an AI bot that tracked the labor and cost of projects based on the bots gathering real-time data from our systems."
Andy Everleigh Jr., Owner and CEO
Used AI to develop automated accounting processes, saving 16 hours or $1,200 a month in labor.
KLR Outsourcing implemented goal planning, action-based initiatives and 2024 projects, resulting in a 100% increase in the bottom line.
Environmental Pools experienced a 20% increase in profitability ($20 million to $24 million) after the first 8 months of working with KLR Outsourcing.
Implemented percentage of completion accounting and month contract schedule reporting to clarify job level profitability.
KLR created forecasts and initiatives to help Environmental Pools achieve their longer-term goals.
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