The property, month by month

• What you billed and what you collected, side by side, so the gap is the money still owed.
• Your collection rate for the month, and how it compares with the months before it.
• Total electricity and water units the building got through, which is where a leak or a failing water heater shows up first.

Room by room

Each room keeps its own record of every month it was billed: units used, what each utility came to, the total, and what was actually paid. A room running three times its neighbour's electricity every month is worth a look at the immersion heater — that is the kind of thing this view is for.

Stepping back into a closed month

Open any month you have closed and you get that month's figures as they were, not today's dressed up in an old name. This is why closing a cycle matters: it is the act that makes a month a fact.

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