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Setting Up the Chart of Accounts: QuickBooks for Contractors

Levelset

The Chart of Accounts is the heart of every contractor’s accounting system , whether you’re using QuickBooks or any other construction accounting software. In this article, we’ll explain how a contractor’s Chart of Accounts should be set up in QuickBooks , with a free customizable template for construction. .

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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

Levelset

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. It’s unfair to feel like the bank and the contractor on all of your projects.

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The Impact of ASC 842 – The New Lease Standard Is Here

Construction Business Owner

It is time for contractors to get serious about the new accounting lease standard. It is time for contractors to get serious about the FASB ASU 2016?02 02 ASC 842 Leases, the new lease accounting standard issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). Determine how to account for each lease.

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What Happened at the 2017 CFMA Conference?

Construction Business Owner

Membership in CFMA is represented by all types of general contractors, specialty trades and construction managers, with a large number of professionals in the accounting, insurance, surety, software, legal and banking industries.

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Contractor Accounting Vs. Regular Accounting

Contractor Bookkeeping

All Accounting Methods Share The Same Accounting Equations. Bank Balance - Un-cleared Checks) = Cash. Regular Accounting - Is roughly 80% of all accounting and Accounting for businesses in the world. Regular Accounting - Is roughly 80% of all accounting and Accounting for businesses in the world.

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Toxic and dysfunctional industry awaits its revolution

Construction Law

The Times gave more space to construction and its problems in a series spread over three days in May than the industry has probably ever received at one go from a national newspaper. The industry was characterised as ‘toxic and dysfunctional’ and racing to the bottom. None of it was good. They won’t stay so well hidden for much longer.

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6 Ways the COVID-19 crisis will reshape the construction industry

Lets Build

The construction industry, along with all other sectors in the world, will never be the same because of the COVID-19 pandemic. A lot of industries have adopted remote work arrangements for the past few years already. The construction industry is still one of the least digitised sectors in the world, second only to agriculture.