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Profit Starts With Knowing Your Numbers

Construction Business Owner

Profit Starts With Knowing Your Numbers ccapoccia Mon, 03/11/2024 - 10:15 The key to building a successful construction business: knowing and managing your numbers. You can’t bid projects right unless you know your job costs, production rates, actual overhead and profit goal.

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How to Stop Profit Margin Fade

Construction Business Owner

How to Stop Profit Margin Fade ccapoccia Thu, 11/09/2023 - 10:03 The No. 1 challenge many contractors face is profit shrinkage or profit margin fade. This recurring problem occurs when the final construction project job cost finishes higher than the bid estimate or budget.

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How to Keep Your Profit Wheel Spinning

Construction Business Owner

1 challenge many contractors face is profit shrinkage or profit margin fade. This recurring problem appears when final construction job cost comes in higher than the bid or contract project budget. I often hear company owners say that they bid using a 15-percent markup for overhead and 10 percent for profit.

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Keep Up With Construction Material Cost Changes

Construction Business Owner

Working in uncertainty can lead to budget overruns, delays and decreased profitability, making it challenging to keep up. This allows you to strategically evaluate and adjust your estimates and budgets based on how prices have fluctuated in past, similar market conditions. What Can You Expect From Data Insights – Cost Trends?

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5 Ways Contractors Can Improve Profitability

Construction Business Owner

5 Ways Contractors Can Improve Profitability. By following project accounting best practices as they manage budgets and billing, they can help ensure the profitability of each project. How to determine your true costs so you can master the budgeting process. How to reduce the risk of every project. Greg Ragsdale.

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The Secret Sauce to Protecting Construction Profits  

Autodesk Construction Cloud

By taking proactive steps and adopting the right tools, you can mitigate and safeguard your firm’s profits. ” Clearly, technology can enormously influence your projects’ productivity and profitability. Little to no project or business predictability Most construction projects are like a unique snowflake.

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How technology can help you maintain your profit margins at residential projects

Lets Build

Setbacks like supply chain disruptions and rising energy prices are putting pressure on residential construction profit margins. And for many construction companies that operated on slim profit margins before those setbacks, even the smallest cost overruns can result in loss-making projects.