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Three Key Questions Successful Contractors Ask Themselves

Posted by Randal DeHart on Fri, Jun 10, 2016

Three simple questions contractors need to ask themselves to ensure your company and brand continues growing cash flow and profits.

Three questions that if all owners of failed construction companies had asked themselves, they might have survived and thrived. They are simple, obvious questions, but how you answer them will determine if your construction company will stand the test of time.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Challenges of Getting Good Reports From Your Construction Accounting

Posted by Sharie DeHart on Fri, May 27, 2016


In the world where most people think everything should be Free, Perfect, Now getting good financials from your Construction Accounting System still takes the old fashioned method of hard work and skill.

 

Most Contractors would never expect or allow their staff out in the field do sloppy; tacky workmanship except where the office is concerned. Most contractors who do beautiful work on the job tend to be a Little messy in their paperwork.
There is only so many hours in the day and not enough hours to do everything.

Highly successful contractors know they need good reports to know where the their company is going, knowledge on what type of jobs to bid and accept.  If and when to hire additional employees.

Smart contractors know when to hire someone who has the skill sets that they or their office staff does not have. Make no mistake, managing the paperwork in your construction company requires more than just simple QuickBooks skills. You need someone trained in construction accounting with highly developed skill sets in dozens of online and offline software, not just the basics of how to turn on QuickBooks and write a check.

Think of what it takes to manage your household expenses then multiply that by a factor of 10 then add in employees with all the drama and headaches they bring to your company!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Topics: Contractors Bookkeeping Services

Unique Job Costing Advice For Small Construction Companies

Posted by Randal DeHart on Fri, May 20, 2016


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Most articles about Job Costing are for large contractors with dozens of employees, doing millions of dollars in sales every year. This article is not about them it is about you!

I care deeply about all Contractors. However, since I have a limited time on this earth and it my mission to help small contractors like you become wealthy because you bring value to other people's lives!

Owners of small construction companies like you are the men and women who keep everything moving in the right direction. When the economy changes, you quickly adapt because you are a survivor, not a large giant behemoth dinosaur unable to respond quickly and dies in its tracks.

Job Costing In Its Simplest Terms

Job Costing links the money you spent on a job against the money you received to do a particular job.

In Construction Accounting, there are two types of Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) Direct Construction Costs and Indirect Construction Costs. Both are equally important to generating useful Job Costing Reports.

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Topics: Job Costing

Four Unique Reasons Small Contractors Succeed Financially & Personally

Posted by Randal DeHart on Fri, May 13, 2016


Starting And Building A Construction Contracting Company Is Brutal Not Just Hard!

There are a great number of "Threads Of Success Weaved Into The Fabric Of All Successful High-Profit Construction Contracting Companies" and I am going to share four of them with you.

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Topics: contractor success secrets, Uniquely Successful Contractors

Four Key Words To Increasing Your Contracting Cash Flow And Profits

Posted by Randal DeHart on Fri, May 06, 2016

The Four Most Important Words Your Construction Clients Say:

  • "While it's open anyway...." (the walls, floors, ceiling)
  • "Since we're this far..." (in the project, remodel, new house)
  • "I have an idea..." (for more work to be done, change something)
  • "Now my wife wants..." (more, more and more)

Highly profitable and very successful Contractors like you respond with...

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Topics: Construction Profits, Construction Strategy, Increase Cash Flow

Unique Challenges And Confessions Of A Contractor's Family

Posted by Norhalma Verzosa on Fri, Apr 29, 2016


Hi, everyone! This is Norhalma from Fast Easy Accounting. You've probably seen the videos I made and just heard my Podcast with Randal. If you don't know me yet, you must be thinking, "Well, what does she know about construction accounting?" To tell you the truth, I am neither an accountant nor a contractor. I am the company's webmaster. I also build, maintain, and fix stuff - only I'm in front of a computer managing the company's website.

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Topics: Construction Contractor's Family, Contractor Challenges

Construction Workers Are Not Created Equal

Posted by Randal DeHart on Fri, Apr 22, 2016

There Are Three Unique Types Of Construction Workers

Construction Is A Wonderful Profession for anyone with the grit and determination to take it on and master it. And it is getting better every day in every way mostly because of the recession that began in 2008. The economic downturn put enormous pressure on all Construction Companies to innovate and change or go out of business!

Construction Is No Place For Weak-Willed Wanna-Bees; however, it is the only place for men and women with grit, determination and a burning desire to achieve greatness and a legacy of service to all of humanity in the cause of preserving and maintaining civilization through construction.

Contractors Need Workers that are perfect for their particular situation which means you need to know the differences between construction workers so you can attract, hire and retain the best ones for your company.

 

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Topics: Construction Worker Selection Tips

Nine Critically Important Steps To QuickBooks For Contractor Reports

Posted by Randal DeHart on Fri, Apr 15, 2016

Contractors Bookkeeping Service Nine Critical Steps

Construction Bookkeeping Is something you understand then you learn. Hundreds of contractors and regular bookkeepers have told us how easy QuickBooks is to use and yet they cannot understand why QuickBooks for Contractors is so hard to use and it is getting harder every year and I agree with them.

I Have Used QuickBooks For 25 Years and in the early years the DOS versions were very easy because it had a fraction of the features it has in 2016 and the reports were bare bones. 

There Are Apps that make almost everything easy including accounting software. Too many contractors find out too late the old adage "You get what you pay for" still applies.

Cheap Construction Accounting Is The Most Expensive Accounting On Planet Earth

Operating A Backhoe is easy too! I found out just how easy it is to find underground utilities and bring them to the surface with the greatest of ease like the daring young man flying man on the trapeze. A gentle tug on a lever and water was gushing everywhere! It was very entertaining and extremely costly!

This Is Susan's* Story she answered an help wanted ad from a General Contractor, Brutus Hardway*, who was looking for a super cheap bookkeeper with a deep understanding of construction accounting they had to know how to make his QuickBooks For Contractors give him the QuickBooks financial reports and Job Costing Reports he needed to operate and grow his construction company. Brutus offered Susan $15.00 an hour for 10 hours a week. Susan as a good heart and she had QuickBooks experience, but not using QuickBooks For Contractors so she contacted us and I invested an hour of my time at no charge to share a quick overview of what I call the Contractors Bookkeeping Service Nine Critical Steps.

A Short While Later - I stopped by to see how everything was going for Susan and her employer. We reviewed the Nine Steps to see how she was using what she had learned. 

*The names have been changed to protect the real identity of Susan and Brutus

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Topics: QuickBooks For Contractors

How To Use QuickBooks For Multiple Companies With Same Owner

Posted by Randal DeHart on Fri, Apr 08, 2016

Using QuickBooks For Multiple Construction Company Files

Since The Early 2000's More Construction Company Owners Have needed two or more incomes. We have met with contractors from several groups:

Group One - Skilled Craftsman or Craftswoman is trying to grow a construction company while their spouse or significant other has a job with another company usually unrelated to construction. Today it is more common to see both partners are self-employed and operating a Construction Company.

Construction Companies And Other Businesses Owned By - Related business partners and business types can be merged into a single QuickBooks file and that always causes all kinds of trouble!

When The Individual Household Partners - File their annual tax return jointly the tax prepare who files the annual Income Tax Return looks at all the business and personal financial reports and is the final authority on what can and cannot be merged together on a single tax return.

Most Tax Returns Are Several Dozen Pages Long - With much of the information duplicated on both the personal and business returns which is why we recommend you hire someone who specializes in preparing annual tax returns NOT A Jack-Of-All-Accounting-Trades-Master-Of-None. We do not prepare annual tax returns; we do process Payroll and prepare Quarterly Tax Reports.

Why Do We Believe Strongly That You Need Individual QuickBooks Company Files?

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Topics: QuickBooks Multiple Companies

Ten Little Things Hindering You From Getting Loans For Your Contracting Company

Posted by Randal DeHart on Fri, Apr 01, 2016

Do You Feel Like The System Is Rigged To Keep You From

Getting Financing For Your Construction Company?

Well, it is! There I said and I stand by it 100%. In most cases it's not your fault! The problem is you using painting a word picture to show how well your Construction Company is doing and describing all the new and exciting projects you are bidding on and expect to get while your Financial Reports are telling the banker or lender the exact opposite!

Prior to the 1960's Contractors and Bankers had a personal one-on-one relationship. They got to know you, like you and trust you which made getting a loan fast and easy. Then starting in the 1960's lenders started using The RMA more than ever before to influence their decisions.

What you don't know about business is 100X worse than what you know about doing the work you love doing so very much.

Being Unaware Of The Rules Of Business Causes Many Contractors To Believe:
  • Working Harder Will Solve Any Problem...
  • Staying In Business Long Enough Means They Will Win...
  • That One Good Job Will Fix All Of My Cash Flow Problems...
  • Explain Their Situation To All Of The Bankers, Suppliers, Lenders...

In the end what you don't know can slowly and painfully drag you and your Construction Company into a deep hole of debt, discouragement, depression and despair long after you have run out of time, money and energy.

"If You Know The Answers The Questions Will Not Bother You" - Randalism

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Topics: Financing Secrets Revealed, Contractor Lines Of Credit, Construction Loans, Loans For Contractors

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