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How QuickBooks Backup Restored General Contractor's Business

Posted by Randal DeHart on Mon, Oct 10, 2011

Over the years I have spoken to hundreds of contractors about backing up their QuickBooks

Some contractors have acted on the idea, and others, not so much. There are two kinds of contractors who use computers:

  • Those who have yet to experience fire, flood, theft, bad bookkeeper or hard drive crash
  • Those who have and are now passionate about spreading the word about backups

This particular contractor is one of the nicest, gentlest and friendliest people you will ever meet; typical of all good contractors!

In addition he is a large and powerful man having worked in construction for over 30 years. Let just say he knows how to communicate in a gentle but firm way to get his point across to his employees and trade contractors.

He was not particularly interested in the fact that we have remote servers and that our clients QuickBooks files are backed up every night.

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Being a gentleman he listened politely while I told him all about the benefits of having his QuickBooks backed nightly and the fact that he could get to his QuickBooks from anywhere there was internet connection. Once I shut up he let me know he decided to hire our services because we could get his bookkeeping on track and help him build his construction business. The rest was nice but not very important since he did not plan on having any fire, flood, theft, bad bookkeeper or hard drive crashes.

A Short While After We Began Working Together Tragedy Struck!

The following is from an email sent to Randal:

"On July 27, 2008, Sunday evening around 6:30 pm my girlfriend and I just got home from an overnight hiking trip.

When we arrived home we had discovered that we had been robbed. We immediately called 911.

As we walked through the house we discovered that our computer was gone along with many other valuables. The computer had all the company business on it.

QuickBooks, invoices, all the subcontractors’ info, and everything to keep the company books.

We were at a loss for what to do. But as luck would have it, we had Randal DeHart as our accountant. He had all our info on a back-up system somewhere in a huge server.

So we called Randal to let him know that we would get a new computer as soon as the insurance company paid us.

Randal called us the next day, July 28th, 2008 and told us to come to his office. To our surprise he had gone to Office Depot and purchased a new computer and loaded it with QuickBooks and restored all our business information.

We are so appreciative that Randal had our backs, so to speak. We had told him that we would pay him for the computer as so as possible. But you know what he said……….

“No thanks are necessary and that if we just Pay-It-Forward, that’s all he asked.”

How’s that for a Good Accountant?"

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About The Author:

Randal DeHart, PMP, QPA The Construction Accountant Randal DeHart, PMP, QPA is the co-founder of Business Consulting And Accounting in Lynnwood Washington. He is the leading expert in outsourced construction bookkeeping and accounting services for small construction companies across the USA. He is experienced as a Contractor, Project Management Professional, Construction Accountant, Intuit ProAdvisor, QuickBooks For Contractors Expert and Xero Accounting Specialist. This combination of experience and skill sets provides a unique perspective which allows him to see the world through the eyes of a contractor, Project Manager, Accountant and construction accountant. This quadruple understanding is what sets him apart from other Intuit ProAdvisors and Xero accountants to the benefit of all of the construction contractors he serves across the USA. Visit http://www.fasteasyaccounting.com/randal-dehart/ to learn more.

Our Co-Founder Randal DeHart - Is a Certified PMP (Project Management Professional) with several years of construction project management experience. His expertise is construction accounting systems engineering and process development. His exhaustive study of several leading experts including the work of Dr. W. Edward Deming, Michael Gerber, Walter A. Shewhart, James Lewis and dozens of others was the foundation upon which our Construction Bookkeeping System is based and continues to evolve and improve. Check out our Contractor Success Map Podcast on iTunes and Follow Randal on Google+

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