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How The Cloud Is Enabling Smarter Project Management—Part 4 of 5

Viewpoint Construction Technology

While having the best people in place, working together well and using the latest tools is critical, the construction project can still suffer if the data being tracked and reviewed is days or even weeks old. That outdated project information can make it hard to accurately gauge current job costs or work in progress.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

Meet with them before every project to discuss not only the contractual provisions for scope of work and change orders, but also what you bid and why. Owners need your help to meet their goals, and they may be more amenable to approving change orders while you’re still on the job. change orders.

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Lean Construction – Overcoming decades of mistrust, lack of communication, and opposition between facilities owners, designers, engineers, and builders.

Job Order Contracting

Adversarial, change-order-oriented environment is common between owner, A/E, and contractor. Project cannot be expedited with a collaborative fast-track process; drawings and specs must be 100% complete to bid (though latter rarely occurs). Design changes can result in costly impacts to drawings or construction work in progress.

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You Have HUD-1 Statements And Your Bank Wants Financial Statements

Contractor Bookkeeping

You are a spec home builder in need of a construction draw and your bank or lender wants to see your latest financial reports and this time they want all of the current houses you are working on to be reflected in QuickBooks correctly as Work-In-Process (W.I.P.) We have a FREE change order form you can download here.

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Custom Home Builders Have Unique Bookkeeping Needs

Contractor Bookkeeping

Custom Home Builders - Need people trained in construction bookkeeping who understand how to put together a bank draw correctly, not someone with experience in regular bookkeeping. Often during construction there are a numbe of change orders, addtions and deletions and a lot of the time the homeowner wants to provide certain materials.

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Construction Company Failure Root Causes

Contractor Bookkeeping

. #2 Change State - Arriving at a new understanding about something. In ancient Greece, Socrates argued that education was about drawing out what was already within the student. "I Working for customers instead of clients and not charging enough (The 80-20 Rule). Working on stuff you are not skilled in by trying to save money.

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QuickBooks Vs. Xero Accounting Online For Construction

Contractor Bookkeeping

QuickBooks or Xero Accounting Online for construction depends on how you get paid, the type of work your company does and if you need Job Costing. QuickBooks Works Best If You: Takes Job Deposits. Have Change Orders. Need Work-In-Progress. Need Periodic Invoices For Bank draws.