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When Hiring A Construction Accounting Service Makes Sense

Posted by Randal DeHart on Fri, Aug 08, 2014

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When John Doe* (not his real name) opened his residential remodeling company, he did just about everything himself from creating construction proposals to paying the rent, processing payroll, preparing quarterly tax returns, reconciling checking and credit card accounts and paying bills.

As his residential remodeling company grew, however, he began to notice he was spending less time helping customers transform their living space and more time in his downstairs office, which was in the dark corner of the basement in his home late at night and on the weekends entering a pile of data into QuickBooks.

Every successful contractor reaches the point where they need to look for outside help with specific tasks like bookkeeping and accounting. How can a contractor know when you need to hire a professional to help you with your contracting company? Perhaps these events will signal that it is time to seek help.

Are You Spending Valuable Time On Bookkeeping?

If you are spending more time crunching numbers than you are running your Contracting Company, you may want to consider outsourcing your accounting. According to Intuit, most small business owners spend 10 hours a week on paperwork.

If you could use those hours for marketing, merchandising or addressing the needs of your customers, if you haven't had a day off in months because you spend your Sundays getting your books up to date, or if you just spent any part of last week trying to coerce insightful reports out of your accounting software program, perhaps you should at least consider outsourced accounting services.

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You Don’t Want To Manage A Bookkeeping Staff

The hidden cost of hiring a part-time or in house bookkeeper is it actually adds to your workload. In order to save time and money you need to have a clear understanding of the difference between Construction Accounting and Regular Accounting.

You need to manage, train and answer questions and that takes time away from your core business. One of the biggest problems contractors have hiring a part time bookkeeper is they don't know for sure proper recordkeeping and analysis is being performed every day. After all, if you don't understand construction accounting, how can you be sure someone else does and is doing everything correctly?

Contractors Days Are Fast And Furious

If your contractors bookkeeping gets even one day behind it may not seem that bad at first, but lose track of a few days of invoices, change orders, payments and you’ll find yourself in a quagmire that only a professional construction accountant can unravel.

If you are constantly falling behind and failing to keep up with all of the paperwork, your contracting company generates your credit could take a hit.

When you outsource to a contractor bookkeeping service that understands construction and construction accounting, you free up your time, and have your figures in the hands of a skilled construction accounting professional.

It is especially important when it comes to calculating payroll, payroll taxes, quarterly tax reports, accounts receivable and accounts payable. If you don't have time to make sure you're getting paid as well as keeping your customers, employees, suppliers and IRS happy, you are sitting on a ticking time bomb.

You Lack Construction Accounting Skills To Keep Your Books

If you can’t do your own accounting, let alone construction accounting or if you wrestle with paperwork and bookkeeping tasks, our contractors bookkeeping services are a must. You may be missing valuable steps or information, simply because you are not familiar with the construction accounting.

Before signing up for a crash course in QuickBooks or worse yet hiring your friend or neighbor to help with QuickBooks data entry tasks think about everything you do and don't know about what you really need. A Professional contractors Bookkeeping Service knows what information you really need without you even having to give directions or request reporting.

You Don’t Know For Sure Where Your Money is Going

Many contractors overpay or even pay a bill twice because they don't have good records or an accurate bank balance in QuickBooks.

Are you missing important deductions? In many cases, a professional construction accounting service can pay for itself by finding and fixing overpayment and missed items or coming up with innovative solutions to your contractor bookkeeping problems.

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Hiring a contractor bookkeeping service can be a big step for your contracting company, and it is an ideal way to acquire the expertise of a construction accounting professional without spending a lot of money and overwhelming your budget. If you want to find out more about how outsourced bookkeeping services, we can help.

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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! 

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About The Author:

Randal DeHart, PMP, QPA The Construction Accountant Randal DeHart, PMP, QPA is the co-founder of Business Consulting And Accounting in Lynnwood Washington. He is the leading expert in outsourced construction bookkeeping and accounting services for small construction companies across the USA. He is experienced as a Contractor, Project Management Professional, Construction Accountant, Intuit ProAdvisor, QuickBooks For Contractors Expert and Xero Accounting Specialist. This combination of experience and skill sets provides a unique perspective which allows him to see the world through the eyes of a contractor, Project Manager, Accountant and construction accountant. This quadruple understanding is what sets him apart from other Intuit ProAdvisors and Xero accountants to the benefit of all of the construction contractors he serves across the USA. Visit http://www.fasteasyaccounting.com/randal-dehart/ to learn more.

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. Check out our Contractor Success Map Podcast on iTunes and Follow Randal on Google+

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