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Job Costing

Recently a prospective client asked us about ‘job costing’ in QuickBooks (smart client).  She was planning on buying the QuickBooks Premier Contractor (she’s in the interior design and remodeling business) and converting the existing accounting systems. Her plan is to primarily use QuickBooks for job costing and wanted recommendations that might help her transition smoothly. There is no better […]

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We are always astonished when we encounter someone who is doing the bookkeeping for a contractor and they and treat the construction business like any other business.   Using regular bookkeeping and accounting for a construction business is like trying to assess the size and risk of an iceberg by only observing what shows of […]

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Job costing, which is the single most important task in an estimating systems process flow, is something that is often neglected by so many start-up, small and mid-sized construction companies. Failing to job cost effectively or failing to execute it altogether, would be similar to a pilot attempting to fly a plane through thick cloud […]

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