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Fast Easy Accounting is available to speak to your group on a variety of topics related to QuickBooks, general bookkeeping and accounting.

We Have Spoken At QuickStart Shoreline, Master Builder Association of King and Snohomish County, Painting And Decorating Contractors Seattle-King County Chapter, The Blue Book Building And Construction Network Showcase Event In Seattle and a number of private networking events for Biznik members and construction contractor groups.

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The Speaking Topics Shown Below Are Updated Regularly

 

Profit Center Secrets In QuickBooks Part One

Program Description:

Part One of what separates wealthy contractors from poor contractors. Part One examines the office staff and how to get more production by improving the work flow. Wealthy contractors have a system for getting the answers they need from their QuickBooks. Their QuickBooks setup is designed to work the way they work so it generates financial and job costing reports which reveal the current top 20% most profitable job types and clients. In addition when those reports are combined with simple Excel spreadsheets they can determine where and how to apply innovations that will continually increase office and field labor productivity by reducing costs which increases cash flow and profits.

Four Program Takeaways:

  • Business Tactics Vs. Business Strategy

  • Seven Of Dr. Deming’s Fourteen Points

  • Second Three Primary Profit Centers

  • Key Performance Indicator Reports

Length of Program Including Q & A: 45 Minutes To 1.5 Hours

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Profit Center Secrets Part 01

 

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Profit Center Secrets In QuickBooks Part Two

Program Description:

Part Two of what separates wealthy contractors from poor contractors. Part Two examines the field staff and how to get more production by improving the work flow. Wealthy contractors have a system for getting the answers they need from their QuickBooks. Their QuickBooks setup is designed to work the way they work so it generates financial and job costing reports which reveal the current top 20% most profitable job types and clients. In addition when those reports are combined with simple Excel spreadsheets they can determine where and how to apply innovations that will continually increase office and field labor productivity by reducing costs which increases cash flow and profits.

Four Program Takeaways:

  • Business Tactics Vs. Business Strategy

  • Seven Of Dr. Deming’s Fourteen Points

  • Second Three Primary Profit Centers

  • Key Performance Indicator Reports

Length of Program Including Q & A: 45 Minutes To 1.5 Hours

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Profit Center Secrets Part 02

 

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Turn Wasteful Spending Into Profit

Program Description:

Little leaks sink the big ship. The big gaping holes get fixed quickly; however the nickel and dime leaks are responsible for more companies going bankrupt than anything else.

Would anyone agree to hire my services at sixty hours a week starting at one cent and doubling it every week for one year? I doubt it since it the total would exceed $45 Trillion dollars!

In this presentation I will show a very simple way to identify little leaks and how to calculate the cost to fix them. Many business owners have doubled their annual profits with this process.

Four Program Takeaways:

  • How to Identify Little Leaks Using QuickBooks And Excel

  • Estimate The Cost Of Fixing Them

  • Estimate The Return on Investment

  • Three Real Life Examples

Length of Program Including Q & A: 45 Minutes To 1.5 Hours

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Turn Costs Into Profits

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Nine Steps To Effective Accounting

Program Description:

All business owners and anyone who has ever had to do accounting knows what a pain bookkeeping is without a system.

When you are sitting at a keyboard with QuickBooks open and staring at a pile of receipts, bills, invoices, bank and credit card statements it is easy to get discouraged because you don’t know where to begin.

Accounting is very simple if you know what to do. Everything has a flow and when you go with the flow life is grand. During this presentation I will share the Nine Steps To Effective Accounting.

Four Program Takeaways:

  • Understand the basic Nine Steps To Effective Accounting

  • The Five Key Performance Indicators

  • How scanning technology can help streamline document storage

  • Understand Profit & Loss Report and Balance Sheet Report

Length of Program Including Q & A: 45 Minutes To 1.5 Hours

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Nine Steps To Effective Accounting

 

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Bookkeeper Hiring Tips

Program Description:

Hiring a bookkeeper is easy; hiring the right bookkeeper for your company is hard. Before hiring a bookkeeper there are several keys things you must prepare in advance.

Without proper preparation the good bookkeepers who can generate the reports you need to operate and grow your company will pass you by and you will be stuck with a bad bookkeeper who will train you like an organ grinder trains a monkey. In extreme cases they have been known to make the business owner’s life miserable on the way to destroying them and their company.

Four Program Takeaways:

  • Personality Traits of Good Bookkeepers

  • Personality Traits of Bad Bookkeepers

  • Office Layout For Optimum Productivity

  • Find And Keep A Professional Bookkeeper

Length of Program Including Q & A: 45 Minutes To 1.5 Hours

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Bookkeeper Hiring Tips

 

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Bookkeeping Service Hiring Tips

Program Description:

Hiring a bookkeeper service is easy; hiring the right bookkeeping service for your company is hard. Before hiring a bookkeeping service let me share several keys things you need to know to help protect yourself and your company.

Learn why choosing a bookkeeping service based on price can invite disasters including embezzlement. Find out why it is important for a bookkeeping service to have a commercial office and more than one person. Discover why the lone bookkeeper working from home is the most dangerous person you can possibly hire and why it makes more financial dollars and cents to hire a professional bookkeeping service.

Four Program Takeaways:

  • Key Interview Questions To Ask

  • Personality Traits of Accounting Staff

  • One Person Bookkeeper Working From Home Security Risks

  • Why Cloud Based Bookkeeping Makes Sense

Length of Program Including Q & A: 45 Minutes To 1.5 Hours

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Bookkeeping Service Hiring Tips

 

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Tips For Setting Up A Bookkeeping Department

Program Description:

Construction accounting is much different than regular accounting since contractors pack up and deliver the company to their client’s home and business.

In regular accounting there is usually only one line for Cost of Goods Sold; however, in construction there are at least 20 and sometimes 100’s. Construction accounting has Work-In-Progress (W.I.P.), Earned Value Reporting and Job Costing which is part of what makes Construction Accounting a special skill to be mastered after regular accounting.

Setting up a construction accounting department requires special people with specific skills. No regular bookkeeper or accountant can do it correctly.

Four Program Takeaways:

  • Construction Accounting Vs. Regular Accounting

  • Skill Sets Required For Your Construction Accounting Staff

  • Software And Equipment For Construction Accounting Staff

  • Construction Bookkeeper Four Levels Of Learning

Length of Program Including Q & A: 45 Minutes To 1.5 Hours

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Setup Bookkeeping Department

 

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QuickBooks Setup Tips

Program Description:

QuickBooks setup for simple business needs. This presentation is a guided tour through the built in QuickBooks easy step interview and will provide you with the tips and tricks to make the entire process fast and easy.

Four Program Takeaways:

  • Setting Up Chart of Accounts

  • Setting Up Customers

  • Setting Up Vendors

  • Setting Up Item Lists

Length of Program Including Q & A: 45 Minutes To 1.5 Hours

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QuickBooks Setup Tips

 

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Financial Statements And Job Costing Reports

Program Description:

Most contractors and home builders have access to an avalanche of financial statements and job costing reports which are worthless because nobody ever showed them how they work.

I help them make sense of it by using concepts they already understand. For example the accounts shown on all reports are like a building foundation. The Profit & Loss are like the framing, external doors, siding, windows and roof. Job Costing Reports are like the mechanical, plumbing and electrical.

Most contractors and home builders say my explanations had a positive impact on their ability to operate and grow their company.

Four Program Takeaways:

  • Five Key Performance Indicators

  • Improved Understanding of Profit & Loss

  • Improved Understanding of Balance Sheet

  • Improved Understanding of Job Costing Reports

Length of Program Including Q & A: 45 Minutes To 1.5 Hours

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Financial And Job Costing Reports

 

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Increasing Profits With Deming’s 14 Points

Program Description:

Dr. W. Edwards Deming's 14 points are a radical departure from the standard management by fear and intimidation based upon us versus them paradigm.

When you understand Deming was focused on reduce variations by focusing on system failures and not people. Variation was seen by Deming as the disease that threatened US manufacturing.  Excess variation in delivery times, prices, and work practices meant more waste and lost profit opportunities.

This presentation will provide an overview of how Deming’s 14 points can be applied to all service businesses from the single owner / operator to companies with fifty employees.aa

Four Program Takeaways:

  • Deming’s 14 Points Handout – Condensed Version

  • Demonstrations of how it can be applied

  • Overview of the Cost of Chaos in dollars of profit lost

  • Simple easy to follow charts and graphs to aid understanding

Length of Program Including Q & A: 45 Minutes To 1.5 Hours

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Increase Profits Using 14 Points

 

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Construction Employee Psychology

Program Description:

Construction company owners and senior staff need an understanding of how employees think and why they do what they do.

The purpose of this presentation is to provide you with some understanding of the root causes for the behaviors exhibited in the office and jobsites. Their thoughts will cause tremendous cascading positive or negative effects on your construction company’s reputation and profits.

People cannot be controlled; however they are predictable and can be understood and that knowledge can increase the odds in your favor for your construction company’s survival.

Four Program Takeaways:

Office Worker Thinking Patterns

Field Worker Thinking Patters

Project Manager Thinking Patters

Failed Contractor Hired As Superintendent Thinking Patterns

Length of Program Including Q & A: 45 Minutes To 1.5 Hours

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Construction Employee Psychology

 

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Tips To Detect Bookkeeper Embezzlement

Program Description:

Most embezzlers say that gambling was the prime motivator.  Roughly 67% of the embezzlers are women. Oddly enough guys who embezzle take 25% more. The most common method is forging check signatures or issuing checks to vendors that do not exist. More than 75% of all reported incidents are traced back to the staff bookkeeper and they average 5 years.

Arm yourself with as much information as you can get and let me help you get started with the twenty one signs of bookkeeper embezzlement.

Four Program Takeaways:

  • Top 21 Signs of Bookkeeper Embezzlement

  • Overview of the Schemes

  • Overview of the Perpetrators

  • Overview of the Consequences

Length of Program Including Q & A: 45 Minutes To 1.5 Hours

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Tips To Bookkeeper Embezzlement

 

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Bookkeeping Steps For Year End

Program Description:

Tips for getting your QuickBooks in order for the end of the year and to get your QuickBooks ready for your tax preparer with a brief overview of the Five Key Performance Indicators.

Four Program Takeaways:

  • Closing QuickBooks And Year End Tasks

  • Step-By-Step Guide To QuickBooks Year End Tasks

  • Step-By-Step Checklist Collect Documents For Tax Preparer

  • Why Close-Out Is Important For The Key Performance Indicators

Length of Program Including Q & A: 45 Minutes To 1.5 Hours

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Bookkeeping Steps For YearEnd

 

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Fast Easy Accounting is available to speak to your group on a variety of topics related to QuickBooks, general bookkeeping and accounting. We have been the guest speaker and part of a panel of speakers at QuickStart Shoreline, Master Builder Association of King and Snohomish County, Painting And Decorating Contractors Seattle-King County Chapter, The Blue Book Building And Construction Network Showcase Event In Seattle and a number of private networking events for Biznik members and construction contractor groups.

Fast Easy Accounting Contractors Accounting Services Presents How To Set Up Quickbooks Shoreline Quick Start

Our most popular topics are Starting A Business Tips and Tricks and Marketing Tips For Business Owners and understanding your QuickBooks financial statements.

Our 30-45 minute presentations provide you with action steps that your audience can begin implementing immediately.  We want to motivate and inspire you to take the very first step to organizing your space…something, anything!  You have to start somewhere for something to happen!

Randal has over three decades of “live changing events” that have provided him with several opportunities to just give up and say…”I am done, I quit, life isn’t fair and I don’t feel like doing this anymore”! Your audience will sense that Randal has “Been there, done that, got the tattoo, t-shirt and sang a song about it” by the way he engages the audience, listens and responds. Thank goodness Randal will not share these stories with your audience because it is more important that your group is entertained and leaves with actionable intelligence they can use right away.

Randal asks easy questions that anyone can answer and not feel embarrassed. Then he listens carefully for answers and comments that can be used in a positive respectful way as a thread of knowledge and wisdom that he weaves into the fabric of a success story which most business owners can relate too.

Most audience attendees can relate to these stories with their own experiences and in doing so leave with fast easy action steps firmly planted in their minds which they can use right away in their own lives and businesses without getting bogged down in a quagmire of boring homework.

In a nutshell Randal focuses on what works and steers the conversation to reinforcing what your audience is doing that is positive and working for them. Randal uses teaching technique which states “all learning is based upon connecting new things with things already known”. Randal connects the known with the unknown and helps attendees build a mental bridge to connect them.

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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. Follow Randal on Google+