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How Cash Flow Forecasts Help Contractors

Contractor Bookkeeping

Managing cash flow is a vital part of running a successful construction business. Some contractors think managing cash flow means keeping track of how much money enters and leaves their business, but there's actually more that goes into it. Starting Cash + Cash In - Cash Out] = Cash Flow.

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Restoration: How to Manage Cash Flow While Waiting for an Insurance Check

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Restoration contractors can spend a lot of time waiting for payment. Meanwhile, you’re incurring expenses that drain your bank account, like purchasing materials and paying employees. Poor cash flow management is the number one reason why construction businesses fail. 5 tips to manage cash flow on a restoration project.

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How to Increase Cash Flow for Your Construction Business When You Can’t Get the Financing You Need From the Bank

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As a commercial specialty contractor, it can be frustrating to have the crew, time, and skills you need to take on construction projects but not enough cash to purchase materials. Add in being denied a bank loan, and the frustrations mount. And when they are approved, they often don’t get the amount of funding they need.

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5 Ways to Improve Cash Flow in Your Construction Business

Levelset

How individual specialty contractors handle these costs vary, but as the saying goes, “Cash is king.” From buying materials to hiring crews, business begins when cash flows. If you’re a specialty contractor who needs cash flow solutions, you’re not alone. Establish consistent accounting procedures.

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Why Banks Won't Lend Money To Your Construction Business

Contractor Bookkeeping

Think of all the times: You loaned money to a friend or relative Provided labor and materials for somebody's home or business without a deposit check Did change order work that you never got paid for doing and never will Gave a subcontractor/employee an advance on their paycheck, and you never got paid back Multiply that by 100,000, and you will understand (..)

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Online Exclusive: Accounting Basics for Small Contractors — Improving Cash Flow

Contractor Magazine

Previously, we addressed a question posed by a number of contractors on message boards regarding the difference between profits and cash. Specifically, “my income statement shows $50,000 but I don’t have $50,000 in my bank account. Where did the money go?” Best Practices Registered User'

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Contractors Need KPI Not Get-Me-By

Contractor Bookkeeping

Picking a Get-Me-By Contractor's Bookkeeping Solution in many cases is using an Excel Spreadsheet and a shoebox, file folders all dumped into a file box and looking at the Online Banking once in a while. Between regulations, economic uncertainty, and other outside forces; always a learning curve.