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Creating a JOC Coefficient?

Job Order Contracting

General / Prime Contractor Overhead. General insurances. Workmen’s compensations insurance. State unemployment insurance. Federal unemployment insurance. Adjustment factors to account for small jobs. General / Prime Contractor Profit and risk. projects valued over $35K; 9. Lodging and per-diem.

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What Is an Insurance Endorsement? A Contractor’s Guide

Levelset

When working in construction, your insurance policy gets issued as a fairly standard contract. Like a basic construction agreement, you can upgrade or downgrade your insurance policy just as a customer might do with the fit and finish of a building. What is an insurance endorsement? How insurance endorsements work.

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8 essential steps for effective project cost estimation and budgeting

Fieldwire

Calculate labor costs Labor costs include worker wages, taxes, insurance premiums, retirement contributions, vacation and sick leaves, and union dues. Determine indirect expenses You must estimate insurance, bonds, indirect field expenses and overhead costs. Integrating overhead expenses into estimates accurately is simple.

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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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Emerging Contractor Program At Fast Easy Accounting

Contractor Bookkeeping

Maybe you began your company with a few friends and relatives and thought your overhead expenses would be low since you worked out of your home. This Means You Have Overhead - Not just office overhead, you have field overhead too. Fast Easy Accounting Has A Step-By-Step Process - To help emerging contractors.

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7 Ways to Improve Construction Site Safety

Levelset

In 2019, the construction industry accounted for about 20% of all work-related fatalities in the U.S. Struck-by : Building materials being unloaded overhead by cranes or booms frequently result in struck-by incidents. Work with your insurance provider. 7 best practices to improve construction site safety.

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Construction Accounting Profit And Loss Reports Are A Hill Of Beans

Contractor Bookkeeping

Reviewing QuickBooks Profit And Loss Reports - From our construction accounting clients reminded me of something I learned in my own construction businesses a long time ago. Construction accounting financial reports can be like staring at a hill of beans if you don't know what you are looking at or why.