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Common Construction Contractor Bookkeeping Issues With Accounts Payable

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Accounts Payable keeps track of the bills owed to a supplier or subcontractor. A proper Construction Contractor Bookkeeping System uses the Accounts Payable feature to track unpaid bills. The bills keep coming depending on your payment schedule; you may receive the past reminder notice before the original invoice arrives.

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

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Even though the insurance company isn’t your customer, the property owner may be depending on that insurance check to pay for your work. Meanwhile, you’re incurring expenses that drain your bank account, like purchasing materials and paying employees. Restoration contractors can spend a lot of time waiting for payment.

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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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Xero Accounting Online Setup Errors Fixed Fast And Easy!

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Did You Have Trouble Setting Up Xero Accounting Online? You are not alone, it is an accounting program built to satisfy the needs of accountants with an attempt to make it easy for non-accountants. Xero Accounting Online Setup is not as complicated as QuickBooks setup projects. Set up your Chart of Accounts.

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New Legal Guide and Resource For Your Construction Business

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Financial matters (bank accounts, taxation, insurance, collections). Protecting data and intellectual property. Employment law issues (employment contracts and policies, intellectual property, hiring and firing). Corporate record-keeping and compliance.

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Job Costing Accounting Vs. Regular Accounting

Contractor Bookkeeping

There is some confusion about the differences between job costing accounting and regular accounting which leads some contractors to believe they can get what they need from any bookkeeper and the cheaper the better. Two Basic Types Of Accounting. #1 Tax Accountants are good people and have a place in the accounting world.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

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ACCOUNTING |. INSURANCE |. Accounting & Finance. Mountjoy, Chilton, Medley LLP is a CPA firm with a team of accountants dedicated to construction accounting. Bank lines of credit are lifelines for many contractors, yet convincing a bank to provide or renegotiate a line of credit is not easy.

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