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Top Twenty One Signs Of Bookkeeper Embezzlement

Posted by Randal DeHart on Mon, Mar 26, 2012

(last updated: Tue, Sep 27, 2016)
A Google Search - Of Construction Bookkeeper Embezzlement will generate thousands of hits and most of it could have been avoided if the construction owner had known about and followed a few simple guidelines.
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Bookkeeping Services For Contractors Using QuickBooks

Posted by Randal DeHart on Tue, Mar 13, 2012

If You Own A Construction Company - Then you understand that Bookkeeping is just one of those mundane, nasty, dirty, aggravating, grubby little chores you get stuck with along with its rotten scoundrel cousin the Monthly / Quarterly Tax Reports.

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QuickStart Shoreline Review - Legal Shield - By Ken Hoffman

Posted by Randal DeHart on Tue, Mar 13, 2012

Protecting You And Your Business From Identity Theft - Was the topic of today's lunch and learn on March 13, 2012 at QuickStart Shoreline Business Workshops. 

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Topics: QuickStart Shoreline, Ken Hoffman, Legal Shield

Can You Save Money Hiring Employees As Independent Contractors?

Posted by Randal DeHart on Tue, Mar 13, 2012

In Construction Hiring Independent Contractors - Can get very expensive very fast!

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Topics: Independent Contractor, Construction Independent Contractor

Business Round Table Is Where Contractors Learn How To Fail!

Posted by Randal DeHart on Mon, Mar 12, 2012

Tonight And Every Night - Including daytimes and weekends a lot of construction business owners will gather at the Business Round Table (The little Round Table In The Bar) to teach each other all kinds of ways to run their business based on hearsay, conjecture, stories from curbstone lawyers, half-witted bad bookkeepers, contractors on the edge of bankruptcy and people that have already run their business into the ground and learned nothing.

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QuickBooks Job Status Report

Posted by Randal DeHart on Mon, Mar 12, 2012

Job Status Report - Lists information for each active customer and job

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Topics: Reports, Job Costing Reports, QuickBooks Job Status Report

QuickBooks Expenses Not Assigned To Jobs Report

Posted by Randal DeHart on Mon, Mar 12, 2012

Expenses Not Assigned to Jobs - Report lists costs that have not been assigned to a customer or job, totaled by vendor. This report helps you find costs that may not have been passed along to your customers.

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Topics: Reports, Job Costing Reports, Expenses Not Assigned to Jobs

QuickBooks Unpaid Job Bills By Vendor

Posted by Randal DeHart on Mon, Mar 12, 2012

Unpaid Job Bills By Vendor - Report shows all bills you have not yet paid, sorted by vendor or subcontractor, and lists customer or jobs associated with each line item on the bill.

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Topics: Reports, Job Costing Reports, Unpaid Job Bills By Vendor

QuickBooks Unpaid Bills by Job Report

Posted by Randal DeHart on Mon, Mar 12, 2012

Unpaid Bills by Job - Report lists the bills you have not yet paid, separated by customers and jobs. It lists only bills with a customer or job associated with it. This report is useful if you wait to pay vendor bills for a specific job until you receive a payment from the customer; Pay-as-Paid.

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Topics: Unpaid Bills Report, Reports, Job Costing Reports

QuickBooks Unpaid Bills By Job Report

Posted by Randal DeHart on Mon, Mar 12, 2012

Unpaid Bills by Job - Report lists the bills you have not yet paid, separated by customers and jobs. It lists only bills with a customer or job associated with it. This report is useful if you wait to pay vendor bills for a specific job until you receive a payment from the customer; Pay-as-Paid.

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Topics: Unpaid Bills By Job Report, Reports, Job Costing Reports

QuickBooks Job Costs Detail Report

Posted by Randal DeHart on Mon, Mar 12, 2012

Job Costs Detail - Report lists all the costs you have for each job. This report is useful if you need to separate all material supplier purchases, subcontractor's bills, and labor costs for each job.

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Topics: Reports, Job Costing Reports, Job Costs Detail Report

QuickBooks Job Costs By Job By Vendor Detail Report

Posted by Randal DeHart on Fri, Mar 09, 2012

Job Costs Job By Vendor Detail - Report shows a detailed list of the job-related costs you have incurred for each vendor, subtotaled by job.

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Topics: Job Costs Job and Vendor Detail Report, Reports, Job Costing Reports

QuickBooks Job Costs By Job and Vendor Summary

Posted by Randal DeHart on Fri, Mar 09, 2012

Job Costs By Job and Vendor Summary - Report lists the job-related costs you have incurred for each vendor, subtotaled by job.

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Topics: Job Cost Reports, QuickBooks Job Costs By Job and Vendor Summary, Reports

QuickBooks Job Costs by Vendor and Job Detail

Posted by Randal DeHart on Fri, Mar 09, 2012

Job Costs by Vendor and Job Detail - Report shows a detailed list of all the job-related costs and expenses that have been assigned to each vendor, subtotaled by job.

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Topics: Job Cost Reports, QuickBooks Job Costs By Vendor And Job Detail Repo, Reports

QuickBooks Job Costs By Vendor And Job Summary

Posted by Randal DeHart on Fri, Mar 09, 2012

Job Costs by Vendor and Job Summary - Report lists the job costs you have incurred for each job or project and it is subtotaled by vendor.

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Topics: QuickBooks Job Costs By Vendor And Job Summary, Reports, Job Costing Reports

QuickBooks Costs to Complete by Job Detail

Posted by Randal DeHart on Fri, Mar 09, 2012

Costs to Complete by Job Detail - Report drills down to the detailed estimated cost by phase for whatever customer or job you select and it shows you how you are doing in relation to your estimate.

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Topics: QuickBooks Costs to Complete by Job Detail, Reports, Job Costing Reports

QuickBooks Cost To Complete By Job Summary Report

Posted by Randal DeHart on Fri, Mar 09, 2012

Costs to Complete by Job Summary - Once you enter an estimate for how far along each of your jobs are, this report will summarize the cost to complete each one of them that have active estimates. It also shows you how much you are over or under your estimate.

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Topics: Cost To Complete By Job Summary In QuickBooks, Job Costing Reports

QuickBooks Job Cost Reports For Construction Companies

Posted by Randal DeHart on Thu, Mar 08, 2012

QuickBooks Job Costs Reports

These Reports - Can only be found in the Premier Contractors and Accountants editions of QuickBooks. Some of them are also available in the Professional Services edition.  

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Topics: Job Costing Reports, Job Costing, Job Costs

QuickBooks Solutions for Multiple Company Households

Posted by Sharie DeHart on Thu, Mar 08, 2012

QuickBooks Solutions for Multiple Company Households

More Households Than Ever Rely On Two Or More Incomes - I have met with business owners from several groups.

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Topics: Multiple Companies In QuickBooks, Multiple QuickBooks Files

When A Business Owner Looks For Employee – No Skills Required?

Posted by Sharie DeHart on Thu, Mar 08, 2012

Many Employment Ads Seem To Say - Business Owner Is Looking For Employee – No Skills Required

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Topics: Hiring Employees

How To Use QuickBooks For More Than One Company

Posted by Randal DeHart on Wed, Mar 07, 2012

QuickBooks Allows You - To keep track of the accounting needs of multiple companies. You are limited only by the resources of your computer.

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Topics: Multiple QuickBooks Files, QuickBooks For More Than One Company, QuickBooks For Multiple Companies, QuickBooks For Many Companies

QuickBooks For Mac Outsourced Bookkeeping

Posted by Randal DeHart on Wed, Mar 07, 2012

We Support Mac Users Who Need QuickBooks Setup, Clean Up, Tune Up or Repair

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Topics: QuickBooks For Mac

Another Key To Success In Your Construction Company Is Be-Do-Have

Posted by Randal DeHart on Wed, Mar 07, 2012

Be The Person, Do The Work, Have The Results

Contractors produce reasons or results and, reasons don’t count. Over the years I have experienced success and failure in construction.Success comes fast and easy when I engage the services of mentors that are where I want to be.Failure comes from engaging people and companies who cannot produce results but think they can.

Though the dogs (negative people) may bark the caravan (long line of successful contractors) moves on.

Choose wisely the six people you spend the most of your time with as The Leveling Process Operates 24/7/365 which means it is always refreshing and resetting your leve

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Do-It-Yourself QuickBooks Setup For Your Business - Follow Up

Posted by Randal DeHart on Wed, Mar 07, 2012

How To Setup QuickBooks Business Event - Hosted by QuickStart Shoreline Business Workshops that was held yesterday was a great success and I want to thank everyone who attended.

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Topics: How To Setup QuickBooks, QuickStart Shoreline

How QuickBooks And The 80/20 Rule Helps You Find Profitable Clients

Posted by Randal DeHart on Tue, Mar 06, 2012

Start With QuickBooks Job Profitability Report Shown Below

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Topics: QuickBooks Job Profitability Reports, 80 20 Rule, QuickBooks Reports

Contractors Feel Like Atlas Bearing The World On Their Shoulders

Posted by Randal DeHart on Tue, Mar 06, 2012

When You Own - A Construction Company sometimes it can feel like the weight of the entire world is on your shoulders.Everyone Needs Someone - To talk too and we understand what you are dealing with between a tough economy, employee issues and tax bills.

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Topics: Systems And Processes, Atlas

Ten Things To Consider Before Outsourcing Bookkeeping For Contractors

Posted by Randal DeHart on Mon, Mar 05, 2012

Take This Simple Test - And if you answer yes to any of these questions, consider outsourcing your construction bookkeeping to Fast Easy Accounting

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Is Your QuickBooks Out Of Control?

Posted by Randal DeHart on Sat, Mar 03, 2012

Are You One Of Those - Contractors that can make your Smart Phone do just about everything by make your coffee?

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Topics: QuickBooks Out Of Control, Emergency Accounting

Reading List For Construction Business Process Development

Posted by Randal DeHart on Sat, Mar 03, 2012

Reading List For Strategic Construction Business Development

Books We Recommend

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Topics: Business Process Management For Contractors, BPM, Business Plans, Reading List

QuickBooks Keyboard Shortcuts To Save Time And Money

Posted by Randal DeHart on Sat, Mar 03, 2012

QuickBooks Keyboard Shortcuts

When QuickBooks Was First Released - In the early 1990's it used a lot of the DOS commands. For those of us who were familiar with DOS felt right at home.

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Topics: QuickBooks Keyboard Shortcuts Download, QuickBooks Keyboard Shortcuts, Keyboard Shortcuts For QuickBooks

Unclaimed Property Report For Washington State Department of Revenue

Posted by Randal DeHart on Fri, Mar 02, 2012

Effective December 11, 2011 - Washington State passed a Bill, SHB 2169, modifying the uniform unclaimed property act and empowering the Washington State Department of Revenue to act as the collection agency.

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Topics: Sales Tax, Sales Tax Reports, Unclaimed Property Report

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