If this describes you just know you are not alone. Most contractors would rather do anything including work in the rain, sleet, hail or windstorm than do the bookkeeping.
You started your construction or contracting company, house building firm, handyman business or your specialty contracting company to build, remodel, repair homes, commercial spaces and other structures not be a desk jockey!
Did someone say you need to do all the bookkeeping in order to be a successful contractor? If so ask yourself are they a successful contractor? Chances are they're not!
Successful contractors outsource their bookkeeping to a construction accounting service and spend their valuable time reading and understanding what the Financial and Job Costing Reports are telling them so they can make informed decisions.
Some of the best contractors, home builders, residential remodelers, specialty contractors and handymen are the worst at taming paperwork. They may as well be herding balloons on a windy day! The answer is simple:
IF YOU KNOW THE ANSWERS THE QUESTIONS WILL NOT BOTHER YOU - Randalism
When you're driving you don't need to know how the truck was put together; you just need Five Key Performance Indicators:
For your contracting company you don't need to know construction accounting you need Five Key Performance Indicators:
You are all about getting things done, not running on an endless treadmill of mundane, mind numbing, paper heading and pencil pushing geek work. If someone told you that in order to own and operate a successful construction and contracting company you had do all of the paper work they were wrong.
This Is Only 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.
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.
This Is One More Example of how Fast Easy Accounting is helping construction company owners just like you 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 and me so stop missing out! Call Sharie 206-361-3950 or sharie@fasteasyaccounting.com and schedule your no charge one-hour consultation.
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!
We Scan Your Receipts And Invoices link the appropriate transactions to QuickBooks or Xero Accounting Online depending on the construction accounting service you are using and provide ongoing Cloud Based Contractors Bookkeeping Services by accountants who understand construction.
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+