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Turnover versus profit: the new assistant's guide to practice finances

IT is easy to understand why, as a new assistant in practice, you might become disillusioned: you see clients paying £700 for the work that you do in a day, but only receive, say, £60 of that money in your pay packet – with the rest, you imagine, going straight into your employer's pocket. Practice finances are, in fact, rather more complicated than that; here, Christine Shield explains just how much turnover must be generated before the true profit is made.

Christine Shield graduated from Edinburgh in 1983. She works freelance, after having sold the single-handed small animal practice that she ran for 17 years. She is a past-president of the SPVS and the North of England Veterinary Association and a council member of the RCVS and BVA.