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Caterpillar Profit Falls 55% in Fourth Quarter 2012

Construction Equipment

Caterpillar 4Q profit fell 55 percent as a result of charges resulting from the accounting problems in it Chinese subsidiary, as well as slow sales because of high dealer inventories. billion from 2011, garnering a profit of $0.7 Fourth-quarter sales and revenue were $16.1 billion, down $1.2 billion versus $1.4

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

ACCOUNTING |. Accounting & Finance. « Considering New Accounting Software? Construction Business Owner Attends APWA 2011 Congress » Section 179, and what YOU need to know about it. 2011 Limit on equipment purchases – $2 Million Dollars (up from $800k previously). December 2011. August 2011.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

ACCOUNTING |. Accounting & Finance. Customer Collaboration & Construction Software » Staying Focused in the Fight Against Profit Fade. Greg is a Principal at Mountjoy, Chilton, Medley LLP , a CPA firm with a team of accountants dedicated to construction accounting. STRATEGY |. MANAGEMENT |. SOFTWARE |.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

ACCOUNTING |. Accounting & Finance. Healthy Competition » Free Webinar on Reducing Profit Fade. One problem that even the most savvy contractors deal with is profit fade, when a job continues to incur additional costs that are not factored into the estimate. December 2011. November 2011. October 2011.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

ACCOUNTING |. Accounting & Finance. Querying different type of jobs in job costing to look at profitability by type. There are plenty of construction-specific accounting packages that work the way construction does and can efficiently prepare W2s and 1099s and year-end financial reports. December 2011. August 2011.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

ACCOUNTING |. Accounting & Finance. This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 20th, 2011 at 11:51 am and is filed under Fred Ode Blog. December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011.

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Open Letter To Prospective Construction Accounting Clients

Contractor Bookkeeping

Construction Accounting is different than general accounting. Most tax accountants think only what they need to do the annual tax return is important.Their answer to your questions about Work-In-Process, Job Costing, Job Profitability and anything that is not needed to fill out a tax return is "That Is Totally Unnecessary!".