Randal DeHart

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+

Construction Is Surging Get Ready To Make Serious Money!

Posted by Randal DeHart on Fri, Feb 20, 2015

It has been a long tough recession and contractors have endured the worst of it. According to leading publications like National Association of Home Builders, American Institute of Architects, McGraw Hill Construction and others 2015 is expected to be a good year for contractors.

Are you ready to ride the wave good times and are you positioned to take optimum advantage of the economic profits that will be ripe for the picking or will you hit the snooze button until it is too late and say, "I should have been better prepared!"

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Topics: QuickBooks For Contractors, QuickBooks Setup

Contractors Who Cheat On Taxes Lose Money

Posted by Randal DeHart on Fri, Feb 13, 2015

It is no secret that contractors are among the industries where many cash transactions take place and sometimes they get busy and forget to deposit the money in the bank, properly track it inside their contractors bookkeeping services system and pay the taxes on it.

From several decades of experience and observations as construction accountants serving contractors all across the USA including Alaska and Hawaii we have proof that contractors who cheat on their taxes lose out on enjoying big cash flow and profits in the long run.

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Topics: Taxes

Your Contracting Company Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities And Threats

Posted by Randal DeHart on Fri, Feb 06, 2015

Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities And Threats Analysis (S.W.O.T.) Are among the tools we use to help construction companies like yours to evaluate your geographic and demographic target markets and develop strategic plans to increase you company sales, cash flow and bottom line profits by focusing on a few Key Strategies that require the least amount of effort and generate optimum sales cash flow and profits for you contracting company.

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Topics: Strategic Planning

7 Unique Reasons Why Contractors Lose Money On D.I.Y. Bookkeeping

Posted by Randal DeHart on Fri, Jan 30, 2015

As a contractor, you are highly skilled, intelligent and adaptable. That is a given because you operate in a multi-faceted changing environment doing the impossible with limited time, money and resources on every project and soon as one is finished another one is waiting for you.

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Topics: Outsourced Accounting

Top Ten Construction Bookkeeping Myths And Legends

Posted by Randal DeHart on Fri, Jan 23, 2015

"The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge."

- Daniel J. Boorstin

Over The Past Few Decades We Have Heard And Read Some Really Good

Construction Bookkeeping Myths And Legends And Here Are A Few

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Topics: Contractor Bookkeeping Services, Bookkeeping Services, Emergency Accounting

Contractor Payroll, Tax Returns And Job Costing Service

Posted by Randal DeHart on Fri, Jan 16, 2015

Three Accounting Nightmares All Contractors Face

You went into business for yourself for a variety of reasons and in most cases you thought all you had to do was get good jobs, do the work and you would make a lot of money. In a very short while you got a rude wake-up-call and your reality check bounced. You found out getting the jobs and doing the work was only a small part of being a contractor.

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Topics: Payroll Processing, Job Cost Reports, Quarterly Tax Returns, Outsourced Accounting

New Year New QuickBooks For Contractors File

Posted by Randal DeHart on Fri, Jan 09, 2015

Is QuickBooks A Mess? Perhaps It Is Time To Start Over

Sometimes contractors get into a position where their QuickBooks file is a hopeless mess and it would cost more to fix it than it would to simply start over. Here is a list of warning signs that can help you decide:

Nothing inside QuickBooks Makes Any Sense to you
None of the Financial or Job Costing Reports make any sense to you
Your bank balance in QuickBooks is completely different from your last bank statement
Your credit card balance in QuickBooks is completely different from your last credit card statement
Worse yet your bookkeeper puts the entire credit card statement charges in bulk using Journal Entries

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Topics: QuickBooks Setup, Free QuickBooks Review

We Reduce Construction Company Start Up Stress

Posted by Randal DeHart on Fri, Jan 02, 2015

We Are QuickBooks Experts Specializing In Construction

New Contractor's Have horrendous Levels of Stress

Did You Quit Your Job - And start your own construction company only to discover you need a contractor’s license and bond. Suddenly you realize it costs real money? Now that can be stressful!

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Topics: Start Construction Company, Contractor Startup

Ten Unique QuickBooks Abuses Are Bankrupting Your Construction Company

Posted by Randal DeHart on Fri, Dec 26, 2014

Construction Company Failure Is Always Preceded By Bad Bookkeeping!

Too often contractors are lead down the primrose path into bankruptcy and business failure by relying on inaccurate, false, misleading financial and job costing reports generated from their QuickBooks file.

Three Places Contractors Learn The True Value Of Accurate, True, And Reliable Financial And Job Costing Reports:

When they get sick and tired or working long hours and getting nowhere so they hire a construction accounting firm like ours
When the get a "Wake Up Call" in the form of a bookkeeper who embezzles a lot of money, a huge tax bill or some other major financial surprise
When they realize it is "Game Over" they are out of money and out of places to borrow money and defer payments and heading to bankruptcy

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Topics: QuickBooks Help, QuickBooks For Contractors Setup

Local Vs. Cloud Based Contractor Bookkeeping Services

Posted by Randal DeHart on Fri, Dec 19, 2014

One of the biggest concerns contractors have about outsourcing their contractors bookkeeping to a cloud based contractor accounting service like ours is they think it means sending jobs off-shore rather than keeping your dollars in America where they can help other Americans. In too many cases that is exactly what occurs.

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Topics: Cloud Based Bookkeeping Services, Freelance Bookkeepers, Offshore Bookkeepers