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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. 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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A Plumbing Contractor’s Guide to Insurance Coverage

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Plumbing contractors should include business insurance as an integral part of their financial strategy. When you tackle the jobs you’ve secured, it’s also important to plan for the unexpected. What is plumber’s insurance? Each field of subcontracting work has its own area of focus in insurance matters.

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7 Things Contractors Need to Know About Retainage

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Construction is one of the hardest industries to manage cash flow in, with contractors often facing large up-front costs and frequent, long delays between expenses and payment. Retainage can cause a cash flow burden for contractors, especially subs at the bottom of the payment chain.

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The Startup Construction Business Checklist: 3 Important Documents You Need to Have

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Insurance is perhaps the most important thing to arrange before starting a construction company. There are many different types of insurance in the United Kingdom. A construction business needs need public liability insurance , and employers’ liability insurance if you employ staff. Business Plan. Legal Documents.

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Construction Site Theft: Impact and Prevention

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Materials, insurances, permits, payroll, and other typical costs are relatively simple to account for. Luckily, there are insurance policies that will replace the cost of the stolen goods, such as builders risk insurance. Insurance claims. Restricted cash flow. Learn more about cash flow in construction.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

INSURANCE |. Data Security in the Cloud » Collaborating on Cash flow. The topic of cash flow never seems to get old – after all, sustained negative cash flow often results in slashing budgets, personnel, and in the worst cases shutting down of a company. STRATEGY |. MANAGEMENT |. ACCOUNTING |.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

INSURANCE |. Rarely does a finished project exactly mirror the original plans. I know from my days as a general contractor that plans and specifications are altered continuously as subcontractors become involved, materials are changed, and change orders are issued. STRATEGY |. MANAGEMENT |. ACCOUNTING |. SOFTWARE |. MARKETING |.