You discover problems after they become losses.
The overrun doesn't show up when it starts. It shows up when accounting closes the books. By then the money is gone, and the job is already off course.
Every mystery charge becomes your problem.
Someone swiped a card six weeks ago. Nobody remembers why. Now you're trying to reconstruct the story from memory while accounting waits for an answer.
You're making decisions with incomplete information.
Approve the purchase? Hold the order? Tell the owner everything is fine? The numbers you're looking at are weeks behind reality.
You're expected to know. You just can't see it.
The owner wants answers. The client wants updates. The field is moving. The office is asking questions. Everyone assumes you know where the money went.






