There are a lot of bookkeepers working in construction company offices that really want to do a good job for the construction company but they are in over their heads and struggling to keep up. In some cases they are drowning and going down for the last time.
The primary problem is most bookkeepers do not have the 10,000 hours of practice and training required for a construction accountant and they labor under the illusion that all bookkeeping is similar and yet nothing can be further from the truth.
Most of them are good solid men and women with good intentions and a sincere desire to do the work of a construction accountant but they are caught between a rock and a hard place.
Perhaps consider sending them to one of our introductory QuickBooks for contractors training classes at our Lynnwood Washington office or perhaps check into our custom QuickBooks for contractors training sessions that our senior construction accountant, Randal DeHart teaches. They will come away with more information to use in your construction company than any other QuickBooks training seminar because we specialize in construction accounting.
They need the job but they don't have the time or money to acquire a formal education in regular accounting and let alone the advanced training required to become proficient in construction accounting. The difference between regular accounting and construction accounting is staggering and mind numbing.
Having been in construction accounting for over thirty years I have seen just about every type of bookkeeper there is from the Good Bookkeepers to the Bad Bookkeepers and finally the Embezzlement Bookkeepers.
Reliable, on-time most days, rarely call in sick and always takes an annual vacation
Respected by your staff, construction workers, vendors and suppliers
Gives the construction company a day's work for a day's pay
Pays attention and asks questions when unsure about something
Brings things to the owner's attention which could save money
Has a neat clean work area and keeps things well organized
A team player who works with everyone and never complains
Learning new skills, reading business books and taking night classes
Take pride in their work and exude confidence without arrogance
Friendly person and someone that you are happy to see every morning
For the rest of the list of Good Bookkeeper Traits click here
We have a program that can help generate more profits for your construction company by outsourcing part or all of the high cost, low value, day-to-day contractors bookkeeping services chores to us and we can work with your current bookkeeper by training them to handle parts of our process they can do quickly and easily.
The result is your current bookkeeper to take on more important duties in your office which could free up your time to do the most important functions in your construction company, acquiring more customers and clients and doing the networking and customer follow up that results in more repeat and referral work.
Profitable Construction - Companies have known about the value of outsourced bookkeeping services for a long time and now you know about it too!
About The Author:
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+