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

Levelset

Meanwhile, you’re incurring expenses that drain your bank account, like purchasing materials and paying employees. To cover these expenses, restoration contractors need to manage their cash flow to ensure they have enough money in the bank — especially when the insurance company is dragging their feet.

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3 cash flow forecasting tips for your next big construction project

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Effectively managing cash flow is critical for contractors’ success. Considering these complexities, it’s easy to understand why, throughout the life of a project, a variety of things can change — directly impacting the original cash flow forecast. Create Rolling Enterprise Cash Flow Forecasts.

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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

With your back against the wall, dipping into your personal bank account may feel like an easy solution. But when you take into account how long it takes for specialty contractors to get paid, it gets risky quickly, especially if you’re just starting out. And when they are approved, they often don’t get the amount of funding they need.

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How To Manage Cash Flow Properly In Your Contracting Company

Contractor Bookkeeping

Construction company cash flow is the movement of money in and out of your contracting business; these movements are known in accounting circles as inflow and outflow.

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Unique Tips For Managing Cash Flow In Your Contracting Company

Contractor Bookkeeping

Cash flow is the lifeblood of any construction company and especially the ones with annual sales volume under $1,000,000. Some construction Company experts even say that a healthy cash flow is more important than your contracting company''s ability to complete projects! What Makes Up Your Construction Company Cash Flow?

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Accounting for Retention Receivable & Payable: A Contractor’s Guide

Levelset

In an attempt to hold contractors accountable, many projects use retention holdbacks, also known as retainage. These holdbacks need to be accounted for by every party to a project: owner, general contractor, and subcontractor. Retention receivable and payable is different from accounts receivable and payable. View profile.

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5 Critical Construction Project Reports your System Should Pull Without Fuss

Viewpoint Construction Technology

The main reason construction businesses implement an integrated project management system is for the visibility that they can gain over every aspect of a project. Here’s a list of key reports that you should be able to pull at any moment from your construction project management software: Basic Accounting Reports.

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