QuickBooks Online Is Not The Same As QuickBooks Desktop In The Cloud

At a quick glance, it is easy to think that all QuickBooks files are the same no matter if it is on your desktop or in the Cloud because it appears to be the same product. Nothing could be further from the truth.QuickBooks Online is slow and clunky and changes early and often so just when you think you understand it...

QUICKBOOKS ONLINE CHANGES!

SOFTWARE PEOPLE LOVE CHANGING STUFF!

CONTRACTORS LOVE GETTING STUFF DONE!

QuickBooks Desktop Version has been around since 1991, and it has improved at a stable pace that contractors and accountants can keep up with. For the past several years our contractor clients have enjoyed the having access to the tried and true QuickBooks Desktop version in a Cloud environment.

Why do I like using Cloud-Based Servers?
For all the same reasons every Contractor has web access to their bank is to see “The Numbers!”

Money In: Have my Deposits posted and cleared?  
Money Out: What checks have cleared?
What’s Left Over:  How much money is in The Bank?

You can access QuickBooks Desktop anytime from anywhere; using your smartphone, tablet, notebook, PC or Mac.

Your QuickBooks In The Cloud Is Backed Up Every Night While You Sleep!

Contractors View Of The Numbers And Tax Accountants View Are Totally Different
When Tax Accountants Review The Financial Statements The Year Has Ended

The Tax Accountant’s Role Is To Review The Previous Year Financial History based on the information provided create and file the Annual Federal Tax Return, Annual State Tax Return, and other Local or Payroll Returns. Washington State is a sales tax driven state. Other states have a State Income Tax, and others yet have a blend of both.

The Contractors Role Is To Review What Is Happening Now and make Strategic Decisions about what to know in order to have a brighter financial future. The best way to do that is to have QuickBooks Setup to deliver your 5 Key Performance Indicators (KPI) in 5 minutes a day at 5 pm or whatever time is best for you. We call them the 5 At 5 For 5, and we can set them up in your QuickBooks for you! Click here to learn more.

Contractors Are Torn Between Over Or Under Managing Their Bookkeeping

Contractors want to maintain control without making any changes. “Keep doing the same thing but expecting a different result.”  

Throwing the receipts in a shoebox (behind or under the seat in the truck) is the favorite way to deal with paperwork.  
This is “Under Managing” and frustrates everyone around them who is playing “Where’s Waldo.” Job costing is nonexistent; bills are usually paid late, customers are unbilled, lost and forgotten.

Marketing Headline Is Contractor Needs Accountant.

The Answer is Yes – Every Contractor needs a Construction Accountant.

The Question is Why Does the Contractor need an Accountant?

• Does the Contractor have an Accountant?
• Does the Contractor have Bookkeeper?
• Sometimes the Answer Is Yes.

 No Charge One-Hour Consultation

We offer a Free One Hour Consulting

Definition of Free One Hour Consulting from the contractor side is:

• I am a General Contractor
• My life and accounting is in Chaos
• What does it cost to fix it?
• Will you invoice my clients?
• Will you pay all my bills?
• Will you pay all my taxes?
• Will you pay employees?

If you have any data that you can include relating to your list, include that in your introduction, too.

Many of you may begin with the thought; I am just a contractor.

I don’t want to be the business owner; I just want to do the work.

That is what is important. Yes, doing the work is important. Keeping track of your hard costs, soft costs, general expenses and overhead is the difference between making a profit or having a loss.

Ignoring the costs do not make them go away; it just avoids putting them on the tax return. Any missed expenses make your profit on the job look higher than it really is and causes you to pay more income taxes because all net profit is taxable.

All businesses need to keep track of their company expenses, including the material and much more. Contractors usually go from one extreme (doing nothing) to the other (trying to count every bean, every paperclip, all the nails and, the scraps of 2x4’s). The balance is somewhere in the middle.

Labor is the biggest cost you will face. As an owner / operator, you're entitled to the same wages your construction company would pay for having another construction worker on the payroll. Otherwise, why not go to work for someone else?

A person makes the decision to become a contractor. It’s easy. Now you are the boss; no one to tell you what to do, how to do it when to do it. Yes – It’s easy.  It’s Morning, Are you ready?

New Year’s Day is the day to make New Year’s Resolutions and a start fresh!

It is a reset button for every Contractor business on January 1st of every year!

The previous tax year ends on December 31st.

Final expenses for December will be coming in by email or US Mail.

What to focus on to make the New Year more prosperous than ever...

Happy New Year

It’s almost the end of the year and time to decide if your employees deserve a Bonus. You may call it a
Generic Employee Bonus, Christmas Bonus, Holiday Bonus or Year End Bonus

Giving An Employee Bonus Comes Down To Cash Flow

Merry Christmas To All!

Everyone celebrates the Holiday Season in his or her own way.
Even the “Bah Hum Bug” people get pleasure out of their “Bah Hum Bug”ness.  

Enjoy, Embrace, Be Glad, Be Joyful and maybe a Little Sad. No one is up and happy a 100% of the time. Do something nice for others. A smile is easy; it’s always with you, and it’s FREE. It can be a simple thing.

Accepting Credit Cards Can Immediately Increase Sales And Profits*

*We do not provide merchant services. We suggest you start by contacting you bank and doing your own research. I know from many years while we were contractors it paid off handsomely so I am simply passing on a mere "scrap of information" to help you get more cashflow and profit.

Unplanned Emergencies - Are stressful now add "how am I going to pay for this" to the mix and the anxiety increases exponentially! For most people cash in short supply which leaves using a credit card, getting a bank loan or selling something to raise cash as their best options?

For Example - Homeowner with leaking roof is going to get it fixed right away because rain water is damaging the interior of their home including some irreplaceable sentimental treasures including items passed down from parents and grandparents.

Who Will They Call? - You I hope! If you are their contractor and you are actively working and the contractor they like and trust.

"Everybody wins, your client gets roof fixed, they earn airline miles and other perks and you made a sale which you could have easily lost to a competitor that accepts credit cards.

Add On Sales - Will more than make up for any fees you pay to accept credit cards. Prove it to yourself by asking twenty contractors that accept credit cards why they do and then ask twenty that don't and make up your own mind. In our past construction businesses when we accepted credit cards the profits increased over 100% and if I told you how much I guarantee you would not believe it!