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Contractors Need These Key Resources To Run Their Company Smoothly

Posted by Sharie DeHart on Fri, Sep 01, 2017

Contractors Need Additional Resources To Smoothly Run Their Business

Running a Construction Business is part serious, part white knuckles, part smooth sailing with moments of fun. Because those moments of fun can be few and far between every Contractor needs to have a little humor. Try to see the glass is half full when it really feels like you are in “The Wizard of Oz, ” and instead of going to Kansas you went somewhere else less fun.    

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To help free up your time we have numerous FREE Items on FastEasyAccounting.com and located on FastEasyAccountingStore.com. We want to help you make your work time as smooth as possible.

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Construction Definitions A – Z is filled with Randalism’s including the humorous ones to the very serious.  
11 Steps To Contractors Success | Experience | Four Dreaded Words | Leveling | Wealth Prevention Tool
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Streamline Your Contracting Company Operations With Our Free Checklist
You are an intelligent Contractor which means you know how to operate your construction company, and the biggest barrier to your success is getting your employees to do what you want them to do when you want them to do it, and do it the way you know works best. https://www.fasteasyaccounting.com/contracting-company-operations-checklist

Free Construction Estimate Template
You need this simple estimate because you can use it anytime, anywhere. It has lines for description, quantity, rate, and amount. It automatically subtotals the items, adds sale tax or markup (if you need it) and totals everything.  
https://www.fasteasyaccounting.com/free-construction-estimate-template

Free Invoice Template Built On Excel
You need this simple invoice because you can use it anytime, anywhere. It has lines for description, quantity, rate, and amount. It automatically subtotals the items, calculates sales tax and totals everything for you! It is designed to record a payment and show balance due.  With many invoice forms, it is too easy to have a payment be treated as a credit when it is not applied properly on the form. https://www.fasteasyaccounting.com/blog/bid/144649/free-contractor-invoice-template-on-excel

In Washington State how you apply payments impacts the amount of sales tax is due and collected.  
https://www.fasteasyaccounting.com/free-invoice-template-form-for-contractors

Free Construction Template Change Order Form For Contractors
The purpose of the construction change order form is to help you make a prisoner on paper any conversations between your customer and you, the contractor, your project manager, superintendent, foreman, construction worker or anyone else who has conversations with your customer. https://www.fasteasyaccounting.com/free-construction-template-change-order-form-for-contractors

A lot of the money is made or lost on a job as shown in the profit and loss by job report can be traced back to how well construction change orders were handled. Customers remember and changes that reduce the amount they owe.  Expect some memory loss about the additions that replaced them.  
https://www.fasteasyaccounting.com/free-construction-template-change-order-form-for-contractors

Free Contractors Application For Payment Sample For Construction Contractors
Are You Having Problems Getting Paid On Large Projects? The problem is when you get beyond two invoices, add some job deposits and change orders the process gets real tricky because there is no "Magic Button" in QuickBooks for contractors that will generate an invoice that makes sense to your customer.https://www.fasteasyaccounting.com/free-contractors-application-for-payment-sample-0

The Application For Payment Invoices shows the money trail from beginning to end in a way that everyone can understand and appreciate which means you get paid faster, with less hassle and your clients will love you for it!
https://www.fasteasyaccounting.com/free-contractors-application-for-payment-sample-0

Free Time Card Samples For Construction Contractors
Employees need to fill out their time card daily for the most accuracy. The nature of employees it to fill their time card five minutes before they would like to collect their paycheck. See a variety of timecards that can be printed and manually filled out or are Excel and can be filled out on a computer.https://www.fasteasyaccounting.com/free-sample-time-card-calculator-downloads

Manual time cards are an improvement over no time cards at all.  
https://www.fasteasyaccounting.com/free-sample-time-card-calculator-downloads

Electronic Timecards  
Have your employees clock in and out using their cell phone. Recommend electronic time cards as the best way to not over handle the payroll information and have the information in a usable format for future reference.  https://www.fasteasyaccounting.com/tsheets

This Is The Tip - Of The Iceberg. Everything we publish in our blog posts, articles in other websites, and anything you can find on the web is nothing compared to what is available to you as our client. We show only the basic tools to open your mind to the possibilities that are available to you. The best finish carpentry tools in the hands of a golf professional without proper carpentry training will not produce anything near to what a skilled finish carpenter can. The same can be said about the best construction business consulting and accounting tools in the hands of a skilled finish carpenter. And I say that with respect and admiration for everyone in construction.

If you are behind on your taxes and other bills. To get a line of credit, you need financials and you are receiving nasty phone calls and letters from Your Vendors and Government Agencies you may want to engage our services to do your bookkeeping. We try to keep the process as simple as possible.

We Do Not Close Sales, We Open Relationships Hard Ball closing is not my style. You are added to our marketing workflow and receive a series of emails, but I do not call so often that you dread taking my call. We have solutions when you are ready.    

I would love to chat with you about your business. Here is a link that tells you what to expect.
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Safe Driving This Labor Day Weekend.
PS.  To everyone in the Houston Area.  Thinking Happy Thoughts in your direction.
Washington State has had a nice summer – Please start sending back our Seattle rain; we miss it.      

Enjoy your day.


About The Author:

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Sharie DeHart, QPA is the co-founder of Business Consulting And Accounting in Lynnwood Washington. She is the leading expert in managing outsourced construction bookkeeping and accounting services companies and cash management accounting for small construction companies across the USA. She encourages Contractors and Construction Company Owners to stay current on their tax obligations and offers insights on how to manage the remaining cash flow to operate and grow their construction company sales and profits so they can put more money in the bank. http://www.fasteasyaccounting.com/sharie-dehart/ 206-361-3950 or sharie@fasteasyaccounting.com


When You Become A Client - Then we can tap into our resources of knowledge and strategy banks. We use the reports hidden in your QuickBooks in order to diagnose and understand your construction business and develop plans and help you implement a path to success for you and you alone because every contractor has unique Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (S.W.O.T. Analysis) that when understood can lead to a Strategic Roadmap which cannot help but make a lot of money.

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For Construction Company Owners who do not need the full power of a QuickBooks for contractors and want 24/7 online access we offer Xero Accounting Online, and we have a custom setup for construction companies. Click Here For More.

This Is One More Example of how Fast Easy Accounting is helping construction company owners all across the USA including Alaska and Hawaii put more money in the bank to operate and grow your construction company. Construction accounting is not rocket science; it is a lot harder than that, and a lot more valuable to people like you so stop missing out! Call Sharie 206-361-3950 or sharie@fasteasyaccounting.com and schedule your no charge one-hour consultation. 

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Profitable Contractors and Construction Company owners have known about the value of outsourced bookkeeping services and contractor coaching services like ours for a long time, and now you know about it too!

Thank You For Reading This Far, And I Hope You Understand we really do care about you and all contractors regardless of whether or not you ever hire our services.

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