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Five Tips To Help Contractors Stop Losing Money On Change Orders

Contractor Bookkeeping

In this case the "Hammer" is a change order. 3% of your customers are "Grinders" and will try to take all your profit by telling you too "Sharpen Your Pencil" which means do the job for just over your hard cost for material and whatever you pay your employees in gross wages with no allowance for overhead costs.

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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: A Savings Analysis!

Rory Woolsey

If you think about it there is a direct relationship to change orders on public funded design-bid-build jobs and the quality of the bidding documents. If you want tight bids and minimal change orders than bidding documents should be well defined with little room for interpretation.

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CULTURE, TECHNOLOGY/SOCIAL MEDIA, & BIM

Building Information Management

There is a great deal of prior work addressing the shortfalls of the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Operations, and Owner sector (AECOO). Advantages typically associated with JOC – Job Order Contracting Program include; 1. Low overhead cost of construction procurement and delivery. Reduction of change orders.

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Contractors Need Reports Not Bookkeeping

Contractor Bookkeeping

There are accounting systems that deal with both quantity and quality. High Overhead Costs (in-house server). Midsize Construction Companies who view construction accounting as an “Overhead Expense” or "Waste of Money" will try to get buy on the cheap. I keep losing money on change orders can you help stop the money leaks?

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Contractors Want Reports Not Bookkeeping

Contractor Bookkeeping

There are accounting systems that deal with both quantity and quality. High Overhead Costs (in-house server). Midsize Construction Companies who view construction accounting as an “Overhead Expense” or "Waste of Money" will try to get buy on the cheap. I keep losing money on change orders can you help stop the money leaks?

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FAQ's About Outsourced Contractors Bookkeeping Services

Contractor Bookkeeping

If you are a remodel contractor your core competencies revolve around bidding, proposing, closing deals, getting a deposit, scheduling the work, hiring construction workers and qualified sub-contractors, getting the work done and collecting the balance of your money. Have Change Orders. Issues Multiple Invoices.

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A Primer on MasterFormat & Improving Construction Project Collaboration

Building Information Management

00 63 36 Field Order Form. 00 63 46 Construction Change Directive Form. 00 63 49 Work Change Directive Form. 00 63 57 Change Order Request Form. 00 63 63 Change Order Form. 00 93 57 Record Change Order Requests. 00 94 33 Record Minor Changes in the Work. 01 26 39 Field Orders.